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Chapter 116 Goose's Ambition (First subscription plus more! Please subscribe!)

Tencent has the richest ecosystem in China's Internet industry, and its business covers everything you can think of.

Maybe its short videos are not as good as TikTok, its search is not as good as Baidu, and its mobile Internet public social networking is not as good as Weibo, but it has product lines in these areas.

Relying on its two huge social traffic portals, WeChat and QQ, Tencent has reaped the benefits of the demographic dividend in the past 20 years since the rise of the Internet in China.

With traffic, Tencent's games are re-skinned based on popular games on the market, and are even more popular than the originals.

If there is traffic, just copy the product model of startups on the market, and then divert the traffic through WeChat and QQ.

It can be said that Tencent and Ali are the cyber landlords of China's Internet industry. Their will can make an Internet company rise or fall.

Of course, Tencent also has a sense of crisis, and their sense of crisis comes from the dimensionality reduction attack brought about by technological progress.

For example, after the rise of the mobile Internet era, if MiTalk had used the Mi phones to kill WeChat, Tencent's situation today might be similar to that of Baidu, or even worse than that of Baidu.

Ke Chuang Bio is going to develop brain-computer connection VR. Tencent internally assesses that this is a technology accumulation link before the advent of virtual reality.

Brain-computer connection VR is constantly being optimized. At the beginning, it may only be able to convert brain nerve signals into electrical signals that can be recognized by chips. When the technology accumulates to a certain level, the electrical signals can in turn affect brain nerve signals. Virtual reality is gradually maturing in the iteration and update of technology.

Therefore, Tencent attaches so much importance to the cooperation with Ke Chuang Bio that even if it is just a potential rumor, Ren Yu personally leads the team in the hope of reaching a cooperation intention.

After listening to this, Ren Yu said directly: "We can definitely cooperate. In addition to its rich software ecosystem, Tencent has also invested in many VR companies."

Cheng Gang interrupted, "All of Tencent's investments in the VR field are investments in games and entertainment ecosystems. Kechuang Biotechnology does not directly make software. If we want to develop VR, we have to make hardware equipment."

"We can guarantee that if we want to develop brain-computer connected VR, Tencent will definitely be the core partner of our software ecosystem."

Compared to ByteDance's 90 billion RMB acquisition of Pico, Tencent's investment is more in the VR gaming field, such as the 1.5 million RMB investment in Frontier Development.

This is a company that makes VR space adventure games.

Ren Yu was very direct: "Geely is not content with just making software. We acquired Black Shark Mobile in order to connect hardware and software, hoping to open up the entire entertainment industry chain."

Cheng Gang has a keen sense of smell: "Hardware and software are mutually exclusive to some extent."

"There is an essential difference between hardware and software. It is impossible for hardware to achieve a 'winner takes all' situation, but it is possible for the software business to do so."

“Especially businesses with strong social attributes.”

Ren Yu: "I completely understand what you said. If Tencent has its own mobile phone brand in the mobile Internet era."

"And with fierce competition from other mobile phone manufacturers like HMOV and Apple, it is impossible for WeChat to be pre-installed on all mobile phones in China."

“So social is essentially mutually exclusive with hardware.”

"But Mr. Cheng, have you ever thought that the software can be downloaded by the user himself?"

"VR, or the metaverse as it is popularly called now, is essentially about entertainment in the era of the metaverse, and entertainment is above all else."

"Under this premise, when Tencent's ecosystem is perfect enough, users will download Tencent's software on their own. VR is more important than mobile phones."

Computers are heavier than mobile phones, and VR is also heavier than mobile phones. The heavy here refers to the usage environment requirements.

A mobile phone only needs hands, a computer needs a table and a chair, and VR also requires a certain amount of space to move your body. "For example, Windows comes pre-installed with IE and its enhanced version, Edge, but the browser with the largest market share is Google's Chrome."

"Even though many of Chrome's features are unavailable after Chinese users download the browser, Chrome's market share in China continues to increase year after year."

In 2019, Chrome browser accounted for nearly percent of the market share in China.

"As long as Tencent builds a good ecosystem, other hardware manufacturers will naturally follow suit."

Cheng Gang smelled something unusual: "Are you planning to develop an operating system?"

Operating systems, such as Windows, which emerged in the PC era, and Android, which emerged in the smartphone era, have made related companies earn a lot of money.

Microsoft has been an Internet giant for forty years thanks to Windows, and its influence will continue for many years.

Google has opened up a new profit point with Android. Walking on two legs is much more stable than walking on one leg. Android and search engine are Google's two legs.

Ren Yu was surprised by Cheng Gang's reaction. He didn't even mention this, but Cheng Gang knew what he meant:

"Geely has this in mind, and is working on a VR system."

“No one can really understand the social ecology of VR. In the PC era and the mobile Internet era, the form of social interaction among acquaintances was text.”

“Will the future continue to be text?”

"You are probably well aware of the impact of short videos on Tencent in the mobile Internet era. WeChat also has more and more emoticons and has added video and voice call functions."

“When VR becomes popular, text may not be popular anymore, and the future social ecology may be a completely new social ecology.”

“Therefore, Tencent hopes to start from the lower-level operating system, gradually cultivate a team, and develop an understanding of how to build social interaction at the VR level.”

After Ren Yu finished speaking, Cheng Gang was very excited. If they could cooperate with Tencent, it would not only include the operating system, but also the social networking, which Tencent is best at, and scientific and innovative biology could all be involved.

The profits from VR operating systems and social networking are definitely no less than the profits brought by brain-computer connected VR hardware, and it can even be said that they far exceed the profits from hardware.

It is a consensus in the Internet industry that selling services is more profitable than selling hardware.

"I think there is a good basis for cooperation between us, but we still need to discuss the specific forms of cooperation in detail."

Ren Yu nodded and said, "Of course, I came here just to fulfill an intention."

"Geely and Sinovation Biotech are both giants in their respective fields. The cooperation between the two giants will inevitably involve very diverse interests. We must be prepared for many rounds of negotiations."

“The operating system is a very difficult project and we need to be well prepared.”

"Especially if we hope that the system will become the standard for the VR industry in the next 20 years, then we have to spend more time to carefully refine it."

Tencent has always been keen on building an ecosystem, but there is a big difference between the operating system and the multi-software ecosystem that Tencent was familiar with before.

The development of an operating system is much more difficult than that of software.

Ren Yu added: "Although the cooperation will take many rounds of negotiations, I hope to reach an agreement as soon as possible. We won't have much time."

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