As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 226 New Applications
The series of magic-related mechanisms led by Zheng Li have not only obvious impacts on Blue Star, but also many impacts hidden beneath the surface.

If it were just magic itself, the countries on Blue Star might not have had such a big reaction.

The abilities that Merlin has publicly demonstrated have underlying logic that is not just applications that cannot be explained by science, but more of a complete technological system that is different from Blue Star.

Moreover, this different technological system is obviously much more advanced than Blue Star's technology.

According to estimates within China, it is at least fifty years ahead of Blue Star Technology.

America, which has more inside information, predicts that the technological lead of magic civilization will be hundreds of years.

Because of last year's Stockholm incident, America was a direct participant and they received more intelligence than China.

Originally, Blue Star Technology was facing a state of stagnation, and the next technological explosion was nowhere in sight, with no one knowing when it would occur.

Now, a ready-made reference object has appeared.

Not to mention that Merlin took the initiative to provide an entire magic-related trading system to include Blue Star.

The stones are ready for you to touch. People in China will touch them, and people in other countries will touch them as well.

Back then, Germany, America, and former Russia all followed the experience of their predecessors to transform from agricultural countries into industrial countries.

Alien stones are also stones.

Zheng Li did not respond to Li Miaomiao's words, but said to her:
"I have made a new research breakthrough on brain-computer connection."

"It should be within this year that the new brain-computer connection technology combined with the handle can realize most of the main actions in the virtual world."

The brain-computer connection technology previously used by Ke Chuang Future can only recognize moving neural signals.

Therefore, actions such as jumping, climbing, squatting, and lying down cannot be accurately recognized.

Zheng Li continued: "Including the handle will also become a glove."

"Through the new brain-computer connection technology combined with gloves, the next generation of brain-computer connection VR can be said to be half of virtual reality technology."

"Once we can convert electrical signals into neural signals for the human brain to recognize, virtual reality technology will be close to being implemented."

Li Miaomiao was very excited after hearing this, as it means that futureverse's market share will further increase.

Currently in the high-end market, HTC's VIVE has been beaten to a pulp.

HTC's Vive is priced at more than 10,000 yuan, and its current market share has dropped to less than 1%. There have been voices within HTC calling for the product line to be discontinued.

Either the entire VR product line is cut off, or the company actively enters the low-end market.

HTC's VR business is struggling to survive.

If all the actions in reality can be realized, the playability and operation of VR will be taken to the next level.

After Li Miaomiao came to his senses, he said:

"If the technology can be improved again, then we need to renegotiate the cooperation agreements with Tencent and DaMi."

"The proportion of Kechuang Future's shares needs to be redivided."

"Our shareholding ratio should be increased to at least 50%, and DaMi and Tencent need to give up 5% each."

Rice has had a much better time in the past two years.

Although Xiaomi phones still do not perform well in the high-end market, they can only rely on cost-effectiveness to compete with other mobile phone manufacturers in the mid-range market.

However, Rice Auto and Kechuang Future performed well.

As the first mobile phone brand in China to start making cars, Dami has taken a big piece of the domestic new energy vehicle market by relying on corporate group purchases and the brand recognition it has previously built.

Since Dami Auto still pursues the cost-effective route, its profit is not high, not to mention compared with Tesla's gross profit margin of more than 20%, it is also slightly lower than Xiaopeng's gross profit margin of 13%.

It is undeniable that DaMi is not only a new force but also a manufacturing giant. As long as it gains recognition from consumers, even if the profit margin is not high, DaMi Automobile will survive with the support of its parent company.

As for Kechuang Future, its annual revenue exceeded RMB 300 billion and its profit exceeded RMB 50 billion.

Ke Chuang Future’s revenue does not only come from hardware equipment, but also includes a 30% tax on the brain-computer connection VR ecosystem.

As a VR ecosystem with tens of millions of users, the revenue from taxes alone is comparable to that from hardware.

From the perspective of the capital market, DaMi's 20% stake in Kechuang Future makes more money than DaMi Auto.

Rice Automobile requires continuous investment in research and development and production costs, and also needs to compete with countless manufacturers at home and abroad.

This business is not easy to do.

After the success of Dami’s car manufacturing, Apple and Sony’s new energy vehicles will be officially released to the public in 2025, and OV also announced through unofficial channels that it will enter the new energy track.

Brain-computer connection VR is a monopoly business, and there is no better business in the world than monopoly.

Thanks to the double positive factors, the market value of rice has successfully surpassed its previous high.

Li Miaomiao continued: "In the field of brain-computer connection VR, Tencent makes much more money than we do."

“The VR NFT platform created by Tencent specializes in creating 3D NFT images, such as personal images, main interfaces, pet images, etc., and it has made a lot of money.”

“For example, we co-branded with Pokémon to release Pikachu’s 3D virtual image NFT, a limited edition of 1000 pieces, each priced at yuan, and they were sold out in less than seconds.”

"More importantly, the sale of virtual images is a transaction, which can avoid the 30% tax on VR systems."

“There are also steampunk-style personal homepages that are labeled as NFTs, and the price is said to be tens of thousands. I remember that the price of steampunk in China has been hyped up to nearly 100,000.”

"We are still far behind Tencent in terms of how to make money."

“Therefore, for the next iteration of brain-computer connection technology, we must redistribute the share ratio.”

Rice is doing very well, not to mention Tencent.

Tencent has jointly released five NFT series products in the past 24 years, including five IPs: Pokémon, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, The Wandering Earth, and Warcraft. In fact, the two IPs that Tencent wants to get the most are Harry Potter and Marvel Heroes.

But Warner's offer was too expensive, and Disney's was even more expensive.

It's impossible to get it off.

For the above five IPs, Tencent only obtained designated authorization within the validity period.

These five NFT products alone brought Tencent revenue of more than 10 billion yuan.

One IP can have more than one NFT collection.

For example, Pokémon has pet NFTs of classic characters such as Pikachu, Bulbasaur, and Charmander.

The Wandering Earth is mainly an NFT product for your personal interface.

This is just a small part of the money Tencent makes from brain-computer VR.

Tencent is also building an ecosystem. They are creating a secondary application ecosystem based on the brain-computer connection VR system platform.

Li Miaomiao was shocked when she heard about the internal revenue from Tencent executives. Software is much more profitable than hardware.

This is also shown in the financial report of Ke Chuang Future.

After the ecosystem is built, Tencent has countless ways to monetize.

"What if they don't agree? I remember there are still ten years before the technology is licensed."

Zheng Li’s problems were within Li Miaomiao’s expectations. Although Zheng Li was the actual controller of Ke Chuang Bio, he had hardly ever been deeply involved in the company’s operations.

Li Miaomiao replied: "The technology license is for a total of ten years, but this does not mean that Tencent and Dami can rest easy with this technology license."

“Before there is any breakthrough in brain-computer connection technology, they will naturally not agree to change the proportion of cooperative shares without authorization.”

"The situation is different now. Brain-computer connection technology can achieve the level you mentioned, which means that we have achieved the accurate recognition of brain neural signals of most human movements."

"It also means that the technological gap between Neuralink and us has widened again."

"In the face of absolute monopoly, ten years is far from enough."

"Without iterative optimization of technology in the next decade, Kechuang will not be able to occupy a monopoly position in the market in the future."

“We have the technology, and they’re going to have to compromise.”

"And my psychological bottom line is not too much. Tencent and Dami sell 5% of their shares each, based on the current market valuation."

"We hold 50 percent of the shares, and Tencent and Dami combined can compete with us."

“I believe this is also their bottom line.”

After studying the history of China's Internet development, Li Miaomiao was well aware of the dispute between Tencent and Apple over the Apple tax, which ended with Tencent's compromise.

Tencent compromised before, and it will compromise this time as well.

As for rice, when Tencent compromised, rice had to compromise as well.

It is difficult to find an alternative company to Tencent in the country, but there are many alternative manufacturers to rice.

Zheng Li: "You can talk about these things slowly. In addition, our research with the Chinese government has produced new results."

"It was mainly confidential before, but now that we have achieved results, I can tell you about it."

"This also involves Kechuang Biotechnology, and we will subsequently establish a new company in a joint venture with the Chinese government."

This immediately piqued Li Miaomiao's curiosity.

She knew that the Chinese officials had come to see Zheng Li before.

After returning to China last time, Zheng Li has not been to Singapore again, which may be related to this research.

Later, Zheng Li mined magic coin and became a magician. Li Miaomiao quickly connected all these things.

Her voice trembled as she asked, "Is it related to magic?"

"Potion? The potion you jointly developed is going to be released on the market?"

Zheng Li felt that the other party was a little off-base as he himself hadn't even figured out the potion thing.

It is obviously impossible to make potions with plants from Blue Star without magical plants.

The life-extending potion is obviously not considered a magic potion according to Zheng Li's standards. Zheng Li has very high requirements for magic potions.

"No, it was after the brain-computer interface with the phone came out that a department in China approached me and asked me if it was possible to detect lies through scientific means."

"This project was launched more than three years ago and has since undergone large-scale trials."

Li Miaomiao thought, no wonder people often came to visit Zheng Li when he was still in Gusu.

"From the data point of view, we have achieved the effect we originally wanted to achieve."

"Then after I recently acquired magic, I optimized my previous achievements and achieved new results."

As for why Zheng Li cooperated with the authorities, he was still able to go to Singapore.

Because the data and implementation principles in their joint research and development field are all kept in China, Zheng Li only serves as a technical support provider.

"If it only stays at the polygraph stage, then brain-computer interface polygraph can only be used internally."

"The optimized results can have a wider range of applications in the civilian field."

(End of this chapter)