As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 280: Surreal

“Surreal?”

Li Shuyao looked puzzled.

Li Miaomiao nodded and said, "Just now after the post-conference dinner at Tencent, I had a private chat with Mr. Ma.

In fact, what they introduced at the press conference was only a very small part of Huanyu-Pengcheng.

Mr. Ma proposed a surreal concept.

There is a difference between everyone’s concept of Pengcheng and the real Pengcheng, and the Pengcheng they want to create in the virtual universe is different from both of them.”

Li Shuyao asked back: "It's like what everyone is like?

Who you actually are, how you perceive yourself, and how you appear to others are three different things.

Are there overlaps or differences among these three concepts? "

What Li Shuyao mentioned is not the same as Freud's "id, ego, and superego".

Li Miaomiao thought for a moment and said, "It's a bit similar, but not exactly the same."

"Geely's vision for Pengcheng is to build a complete ecosystem.

Residential properties are sold to individual users.

The houses will be laid out exactly as they would in the real world, and each house will only be sold once.

But office buildings will not do that. Office buildings are mainly sold to companies that need remote meetings, and can be purchased as a one-time purchase or on a monthly basis.

A conference room can be sold to countless businesses.

Another is the commercial pedestrian street.

Pengcheng's commercial pedestrian streets or comprehensive shopping centers will attract investment from consumer brands across the country.

Tencent has reached cooperation in the first round with a series of well-known consumer brands including KFC, McDonald's, Uniqlo, Dami, VIVO, OPPO, NIO, and Ideal.

You can walk into the Uniqlo store in Huanyu Pengcheng and experience their latest clothing. If you are interested in purchasing, you can place an order directly in Huanyu Pengcheng.

After purchase, it will be delivered to your home.

The same goes for KFC and McDonald's. After you buy something, the food will be delivered to your home by a delivery guy."

Li Shuyao: "It's like you're shopping in Huanyu Pengcheng, and there will be real goods for sale to you."

Li Miaomiao continued: "That's right. Tencent has connected WeChat Pay with Huanyu Pengcheng.

Currently, Huanyu Pengcheng includes functions such as food, mobile phones, automobiles, clothing, education, medical care, and office.

You can even test drive NIO’s electric cars in Huanyu Pengcheng.”

Li Shuyao asked: "It is impossible for these companies to have only one store in Huanyu Pengcheng.

Given KFC's style, they must have a lot of stores, right? "

Li Miaomiao nodded and said, "Yes, KFC and McDonald's have as many stores in the virtual Pengcheng as they do in the real Pengcheng.

But in Huanyu-Pengcheng, there is no need for so many store clerks.

For example, users enter KFC from different stores in Huanyu-Pengcheng, but in fact they enter the same store.

That is to say, there is actually only one store in the background.

There are less than ten human store clerks, and the rest are automated programs.

When human clerks are needed, they appear from thin air.

Including the night in Pengcheng, there will be extremely special neon effects.

Total cyberpunk.”

Li Shuyao said with emotion: "Geely is completely committed to building an ecosystem.

Tencent is too obsessed with building its ecosystem.

As you said, Tencent had envisioned it to be so perfect from the beginning.

Moreover, we have already reached cooperation with so many companies, which is a natural barrier.

If later players want to enter the market, WeChat Pay alone is not something that other manufacturers can handle.

Only Ali has a chance to compete with Tencent in this field."

Tencent has always been uncompromising on its core interests, and their core interests are user traffic.

If there is anyone who may threaten them in this regard, they will spare no effort to fight for it.

For non-core interests, Tencent chooses to invest and provide support.

The release of the Huanyu-Pengcheng product attracted heated discussions among netizens, and netizens on almost all platforms were scolding it.

"The goose is a disgusting goose. In reality, it will be harvested by the real estate, and it will be harvested again in the metaverse."

"I laughed. My house is no longer mine after it is transferred to the virtual universe. I need to spend money to buy it again."

"Don't even think about taking a penny from me. I won't buy your virtual real estate for even a few dozen dollars, let alone hundreds of thousands!"

There has been a wave of public opinion online calling for a boycott of Tencent’s products.

Be relatively rational on Zhihu.

"How do you evaluate the launch of Huanyu-Pengcheng at Tencent's press conference today?"

"Thanks for the invitation. The server of Huanyu-Pengcheng was just opened at 9 o'clock. I just went in to experience it.

From a product perspective, I think it’s good.

When I heard about this product, I thought about virtual real estate, the price of commercial housing being one-tenth of the registered price, and the same second-hand housing transaction settings as in reality.

When I heard this, I felt a subconscious physical disgust.

I am not a vested interest holder. Even though I have a good income, a large part of it has to go to pay the mortgage. I did not benefit from the mortgage rate cuts in recent years. I bought the house at the peak of the mortgage rate.

I hate the housing prices that are totally out of line with the actual development. My first reaction to Tencent's behavior is that Tencent will do anything to make money.

I just went in to experience it at 9pm. After coming out and thinking about it carefully, I have to admit that this move by Tencent is their best choice and a brilliant business move.

First of all, Tencent has mobilized almost all the fields they have touched and all the business resources they can mobilize.

Since it was night when we entered, we were able to see the AR reality constructed with neon light effects and the colorful light effects of the entire city.

A cyberpunk feeling emerges spontaneously.

Besides, I can really go shopping there, and basically all the brands you can think of are available there.

I bought a pair of shoes at Li Ning and then went to KFC to buy a midnight snack meal.

The midnight snack set has just arrived, and the shoes are said to arrive in three days.

According to what was said at the press conference, there are also a series of scenarios including medical care, education, and office.

Isn’t Tencent hoping to build Huanyu-Pengcheng into a complete closed-loop ecosystem?

I believe that when you don’t want to go out in real life for various reasons, you won’t mind taking a stroll in Huanyu-Pengcheng after playing the game.

It may even make you more prone to impulsive buying.

I just want to say that it would be better if virtual real estate was not sold, or the price of virtual homes was lowered.

If I could own a virtual home there for just a few dozen or even a few hundred bucks, I wouldn't mind buying one.

But I can’t afford it at a price of hundreds of thousands or even millions, or I wouldn’t consider it even if I could afford it.

Although I have a feeling that there will be profits in the future if I buy at this price, I don't want to take the gamble.

From the perspective of a freeloader, I think it is a very good product.”

The above is the answer from an experiential perspective.

The following is a relatively professional interpretation.

“Let me put the conclusion first. The price of virtual real estate will definitely rise. Tencent’s pricing is undoubtedly very high based on experience, but the reason for this pricing is to raise the threshold.

Scare away those who want to enter the market and take a chance.

With such a high price, obviously only truly rich people can afford it.

They will not sell them easily after purchasing, which makes it easier for Tencent to manipulate prices.

Just like a stock needs to be repeatedly washed out before it can rise, so as to wash out the unsteady holders.

The same principle applies to virtual real estate, where the threshold is raised to prevent undetermined and incompetent players from entering the market.

As for why it will rise, the simplest logic is, who wants it to rise and who doesn't want it to rise?

Tencent, the Pengcheng government, and the wealthy people who bought it all hope it will go up, and who doesn’t want it to go up? Ordinary people who dislike real estate and Tencent.

Ordinary people do not have virtual real estate, so they cannot have any influence on prices.

The combined power of Tencent, the Shenzhen government and the wealthy buyers is enough to drive up the prices of the first batch of 50,000 virtual properties.

As for whether this thing has any value, that depends on one's own opinion.

Value has always been defined by people.

Another issue is asset allocation.

For an ordinary person, hundreds of thousands may be all or at least a large part of his liquid capital. For a rich person, hundreds of thousands are just like tens of dollars to an ordinary person.

When people with assets worth hundreds of millions are making asset allocations, they will consider products of different risk levels, such as time deposits, bonds, money market funds, equity investment funds, etc.

They will also consider purchasing high-risk products such as virtual real estate.

This is just like how more and more wealthy people have started investing in cryptocurrencies in recent years.

Virtual real estate has been hyped for many years, but it was Tencent that brought it to its peak.

Those who buy are not just betting that virtual real estate will increase in price.

It is also a bet that technological development will exceed people's imagination.

It took Kechuang Biotechnology a year and a half to go from the first generation of brain-computer connection VR to the second generation of brain-computer connection VR.

How long will it take to go from brain-computer connection VR to virtual reality?

Given the relationship between Tencent and Kechuang Biotechnology, if Tencent's Huanyu-Pengcheng is a virtual reality that can provide a series of senses such as touch and smell, do you think the price is still expensive?

In reality, houses in Pengcheng cost millions, but you can experience the same life in Pengcheng in reality in virtual reality, and it only costs a few hundred thousand.

You buy a large flat in your hometown county, and then buy a house in Pengcheng in virtual reality.

I live in reality at night and live in Pengcheng in virtual reality during the week.

It is basically the same as in Pengcheng, and the price required is less than one-third of the price of a house in Pengcheng.

You can all do the math.

I am willing to bet on this possibility, but there is no doubt that the risks are very, very high.

Higher than you think.

First of all, how long it will take for technology to reach the level of virtual reality is completely unknown.

By then, it will still be a question whether Tencent will exist.

In addition, even if Tencent exists, will they still recognize Huanyu-Pengcheng?
Or start anew?
This is also an unknown.

From now until the realization of virtual reality in the future, the unknown risks between the world Pengcheng becoming Pengcheng in the virtual world are too high. "

(End of this chapter)