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Chapter 239 Industrial VR
The Internet revolution has always been more reflected in the user end, that is, the C end.

The application of information technology at the enterprise level has many shortcomings compared to the individual level.

The market for personal applications is much larger than the market for enterprise software.

Especially in China, there are very few companies that focus on industrial software, and even fewer that are well-known.

Products like ERP and Oracle are more basic and not directly oriented towards the industry itself.

Therefore, governments around the world believe that information technology can unleash tremendous energy when combined with industry.

Among them, Germany was the first to propose Industry 4.0.

Basically, we hope that information technology can promote industrial transformation and improve the level of intelligence in manufacturing.

The ultimate goal is to realize a fully automatic unmanned factory.

China has also launched its own industrial intelligence strategy, called Made in China 2025.

This year is already 2025, and it has been officially announced that Made in China 2025 has achieved the expected results.

In fact, under the guidance of policies, a group of giants have turned their attention to the industrial field.

Shein, which has a valuation of over 100 billion US dollars and occupies nearly half of the American fast fashion market share, is a great combination of information technology and clothing manufacturing.

Shein can be said to have truly achieved a deep integration of technology and China's clothing industry.

Ali and ByteDance both failed in their attempts to replicate Shein's success model.

As one of the top private enterprises in China in terms of R&D investment, Huawei has long turned its attention to the smart industry.

After the release of the Hongmeng system, it was said that Hongmeng is not just a system for personal applications, it will enter more fields.

At that time, the first field Hua Wei chose was mining. He hoped to use coal mines as an entry point to promote the Hongmeng system to more mining types.

Their official statement is that they hope Hongmeng can become the foundation of the next generation of industrial Internet.

In other words, we hope that Hongmeng can achieve a position in the industry similar to that of Android in mobile terminals.

As for whether it will succeed, four years have passed since Huawei launched Mining Meng.

From the perspective of smart coal mining industry alone, Huawei has done a very good job.

After years of rectification, most of China's coal companies have state-owned enterprise backgrounds.

Therefore, Hua Wei is quite welcome, as the entry point he found is very accurate.

Over the past four years, the Mine Meng System has developed well in the domestic coal industry and has connected its own series of technologies.

Including 5G, artificial intelligence, network communication equipment, sensors, etc.

The first self-driving car products that were actually put into production by major Internet companies such as Baidu and JD.com were self-driving trucks.

The flowers are for unmanned mine carts.

However, being limited to the resource mining industry alone cannot satisfy Hua Wei's ambitions.

The next generation of industrial Internet foundation cannot be achieved by a single industry.

So they turned their attention to industrial VR.

China is a major manufacturing country with a booming and extensive demand for automation.

The manufacturing industry in Western countries is relatively high-end. They want to develop Industry 4.0, but the high-end is more difficult than the low-end.

However, if they want to start with low-end manufacturing, there are too few local low-end manufacturing companies.

Therefore, Huawei can be said to have a certain advantage.

Huawei’s strategic vision is to combine industrial automation and industrial VR.

For example, even in the past, even unmanned factories still needed people to work in the factories.

Not just electricians, equipment maintenance, etc.

In the past, one electrician was only responsible for one unmanned factory, but through industrial VR, one electrician can manage fifty unmanned factories.

Workers can use industrial VR to operate robots or robotic arms in unmanned factories dozens of kilometers away to perform their work.

The advancement of artificial intelligence technology has enabled many low-end manufacturing industries to achieve unmanned manufacturing.

Combined with industrial VR, the population shortage problem faced by China's manufacturing industry can be greatly improved.

In recent years, young people's employment has shown a clear trend that they would rather deliver food than work in a factory to install screws.

Young people are almost voting with their feet and fleeing the manufacturing industry.

In the future, industrial VR will be enough to attract more young people into the manufacturing industry when they work in factories on the edge of the city in the city center.

Not only the traditional low-end manufacturing industry, but also the construction industry can adopt industrial VR methods.

Young people can still be seen in the manufacturing industry, but there are even fewer young workers in the construction industry. Thirty-five years old is considered very young.

Young people who enter the construction industry even call themselves "oxen and horses" to persuade newcomers not to enter the industry.

Compared with dynamic interests, it is easier to solve this problem with technological advances.

A very simple example is that a company would rather invest 50 million to introduce an automated assembly line to meet the needs of capacity expansion than spend 50 million to increase workers' income levels.

Previously, Ke Chuang Future’s brain-computer connection technology only demonstrated movement.

For industrial VR, just plane movement is far from enough.

As for how Microsoft's industrial VR is achieved, they are just two robotic arms that can only be operated through VR.

There are robotic arms and cameras next to the assembly line. The cameras transmit real-time images to the screen of the VR helmet, and then the workers control the robotic arms through VR gloves.

For the time being, this technology will only be used by senior technicians, such as Boeing's maintenance technicians and Kawasaki Industries' senior technicians.

As Hua Wei gradually deepened his understanding of the coal mining field, he gained a deeper understanding of smart industry.

In total, Huawei has nearly 200 upstream and downstream supply chain manufacturers.

Huawei can completely put the technology first in the supply chain manufacturers.

Therefore, after hearing that KeChuang Bio has developed the next generation of brain-computer connection VR technology and that samples have been provided to Tencent and Dami.

Hua Wei couldn't wait any longer.

Hua Wei is well aware of the power of three-dimensional brain-computer connection technology that completely matches the actual human body's movements.

Moreover, it is not only Hua Wei who wants to develop Industry 4.0, but also Ali.

If Huawei's Industrial 4.0 concept is based on its own communication technology and Hongmeng system, then Ali's Industrial 4.0 concept is based on its own Ali Cloud platform.

Ali has built a cloud industrial Internet platform.

As for Tencent, it also has To B ideas, and they have always wanted to develop the industrial Internet.

Tencent has set up a special place called Tencent Industrial Internet Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Base, which is mainly used to help manufacturing companies in Guangdong Province transform.

Too many competitors

The relationship between Tencent and Kechuang Biotechnology is closer than that between Huawei and Kechuang Biotechnology.

Hua Wei cannot guarantee that other giants have not thought of the application of VR in the industrial field, and they need to create a time difference.

Tencent has focused most of its attention on the VR NFT industry in the past two years.

It’s too easy to make money from NFT. You can just negotiate a collaboration and find a few designers to design a VR image and you can make tens of millions.

Moreover, VR NFT is not only popular in the country, but also extremely popular abroad.

The European and American markets have long been cultivated to maturity, and the Metaverse has been selling houses and land as early as 2021.

Compared with the American Metaverse, Futureverse is closer to the Metaverse. And it is backed by Kechuang Biotechnology, a world-recognized giant in brain-computer connection technology.

NFTs launched based on futureverse have stronger consensus.

The more popular futureverse becomes, the stronger the consensus becomes.

Even Tencent, which makes money quickly from pay-to-win games, feels that this money comes too easily.

Tencent has been trying to develop VR education, but progress has been slow.

Hua Wei did not waste even a moment. As soon as he received the news, Hua Wei, the current rotating chairman, personally led a team to Suzhou to discuss cooperation matters.

They plan to bypass Kechuang Future and negotiate cooperation directly with Kechuang Bio.

Based on the Hongmeng system, we build an industrial VR system.

Hua Wei hopes to bypass the VR systems developed by Tencent and Dami.

After listening to Li Miaomiao's report, Zheng Li thought it was very good.

Because in Zheng Li's opinion, the goal is to liberate productivity and free more people from monotonous and boring work.

These tasks will only suppress the creativity of intelligent life.

In Zheng Li's opinion, even in his own company, Ke Chuang Bio, many job positions are monotonous and boring.

"Yes, you can talk to Hua Wei. As long as the conditions they offer are met, we can cooperate."

"Industrial Internet is a good direction."

"But we still adhere to one point: we only provide technical authorization for brain-computer connection and do not participate in the specific implementation of the industrial Internet."

Li Miaomiao nodded and said, "We are just the technology provider."

Zheng Li: “Yes.”

Li Miaomiao said with emotion: "I am increasingly aware that brain-computer connection technology is the basic technology of the future world, and its application range is too broad."

“The advancement of technology will embed itself into the world,” Zheng Li explained.

“A technology can only have a longer life if it continues to improve.”

"If brain-computer connection remains at the initial stage, it will not develop into applications such as VR and industrial VR."

Li Miaomiao and Zheng Li have worked together for so many years and know each other's ideas well.

After Zheng Li finished speaking, Li Miaomiao followed up his words and explained: "So we must continue to pursue innovation and achieve technological progress."

"Alas, I always feel that my IQ is not enough at Kechuang Biotechnology. Any employee here has a bachelor's or master's degree from a prestigious university, and PhDs are also common."

"As an undergraduate, I felt a bit out of place there."

Zheng Li said succinctly: "Learn more."

Li Miaomiao sighed and said, "I've been busy lately. I plan to study for an MBA when I'm not so busy."

In fact, with Li Miaomiao's status, she can pay money to get a degree.

But she would rather spend some time listening to it carefully when she has free time.

MBAs from prestigious schools can invite top professors in the industry to teach, so there is something real about them.

"Hello, Mr. Li. I have heard of your great name for a long time. We have been partners with your company for many years."

Huawei’s executive was very polite, and the cooperation he mentioned referred to the connection between brain-computer and mobile phone.

Due to the impact of sanctions, Huawei's mobile phone business has been shrinking in the market and has fallen from being the domestic leader.

Huawei did not choose to cut off its mobile phone business, nor did it cut off its HiSilicon Kirin chip business.

They hope that once domestic semiconductors become replaceable, Huawei's mobile phone business can be reborn.

The international situation makes Hua Wei not expect them to be released from the sanctions list.

"Mr. Hu, you are too polite. Huawei is a senior figure in domestic technology companies. We still have a lot to learn from Huawei."

“No, Huawei was only founded a few years earlier, but Kechuang Biotechnology has been growing rapidly in recent years, and its development momentum is the fastest among all the companies I have ever seen.

Please also ask Mr. Li to say hello to Mr. Zheng on my behalf.

Although Mr. Zheng is the chairman of the board, he has always been working at the forefront of scientific research. I admire his spirit and persistence very much. "

After a round of greetings, Huawei's senior executives got straight to the point:

“We have had several rounds of discussions with the relevant business leaders before. Mr. Li, you should be very clear about Huawei’s purpose and its vision for Industry 4.0.

The main reason I came here this time is to reach a preliminary cooperation intention with Mr. Li."

Communication between companies, even when middle-level leaders meet, will be determined through repeated communication between grassroots employees on time and content.

Not to mention the second-in-command of giants like Huawei and Kechuang Bio.

“I have a general understanding of your company’s strategic vision for smart industry. After I reported this to Mr. Zheng, he believed that industrial VR is a very promising direction.

However, we still have some doubts about who to cooperate with.

This time we meet with you, Mr. Hu, in the hope that you can answer our questions. "

"Please tell me."

“We want to know what Huawei’s advantages are in the field of smart industry.

To put it bluntly, it is necessary to cooperate with Huawei in the field of industrial VR.”

“This is easy to explain. After all, industrial VR involves a signal transmission issue.

People use industrial VR to operate equipment in different locations, which requires communication equipment.

Industrial and personal use are completely different concepts.

We personally use futurevverse to play games, and we don't mind the 35 millisecond delay.

A network fluctuation is nothing more than the death of a character in the game.

But this is not the case in industry, as it has strict requirements on network latency and fluctuations.

Industrial VR obviously cannot tolerate network fluctuations with too large an amplitude.

Huawei has been deeply involved in the communications field for more than 1 years. I can say without exaggeration that in the communications field, Huawei is definitely No. in China.

Of course, communication stability and latency are only one aspect of necessity.”

In this cooperation, Kechuang Bio is the stronger party.

Because industrial VR is not important to Kechuang Biotechnology, they already have enough business and are not short of incremental growth for the time being.

Moreover, Huawei is not the only company that can engage in industrial VR, but Kechuang Bio is the only one that has brain-computer connection VR technology.

When brain-computer VR first came out, Microsoft approached Kechuang Biotechnology to discuss cooperation, but Zheng Li was being targeted by American at the time, so he did not agree to cooperate with Microsoft.

Microsoft thought that Kechuang Biotech rejected them for the purpose of protecting its technology.

Li Miaomiao continued to ask: "Boss Hu, I understand, Huawei's technical accumulation in communications is indeed well-known in the industry.

My dad used to use a flower as his mobile phone, and he was full of praise for the signal of your mobile phone.

I would also like to ask, why use Hongmeng system?
We already have a ready-made brain-computer VR system, so why do we need to develop a dedicated industrial VR system based on the Hongmeng system?

It can be retrofitted into the existing system.”

(End of this chapter)