As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 322 Four Years Later

“Hello everyone, I am very excited now. Behind me is the rocket launch base that China Laurel Base spent five years to build.

This is also the second time that the Blue Star people have built a rocket launch base in outer space. This is the first time the Laurel Rocket Launch Base has been put into use.

The first launch will launch two satellites, a Mars exploration satellite and a relay communications satellite, in preparation for China's upcoming Mars landing this year."

The Chinese astronaut stood in front of the rocket launch base. There was no one in front of him, only a group of drones surrounding him in the air, silently recording everything.

It has been five years since China's first landing on the moon. During these five years, China has launched dozens of round-trip missions to the moon and earth.

Five years later, with the help of dozens of Chinese astronauts and dozens of astronauts from all over the world, China's lunar launch base was successfully completed.

The launch base will focus on launching satellites in the early stages, and will gradually take over manned missions between the moon and Mars in the later stages.

Manned technology must require extreme caution.

China's first landing mission on Mars still needs to be carried out on the blue planet.

After the drone swarm takes pictures, it will transmit the video information back to Blue Planet.

Drone swarm shooting is also for the purpose of shooting 3D surround video, making it easier for users to watch in VR.

By the time China was completing its lunar base, America had already completed two round trips between the Blue Planet and Mars.

The first one was successful, and the astronauts who returned to the blue planet after the first success were unwilling to go a second time no matter what.

The second time it failed halfway. After reaching the preset orbit above Mars, it was unable to enter Mars for a long time and could only carry out the return mission.

The third landing on Mars will be launched at about the same time as China's, because there is only one time window for landing on Mars.

In 2031, Li Miaomiao is already years old. In order to celebrate her th birthday, she deliberately did not go to work today and rested at home.

She picked up the latest generation of futureverse and entered the VR world. She first took a walk in my world, and then checked the latest news on the official media channel in my world.

"The second London official magic duel competition will be held tomorrow. It is reported that more than 10,000 people have signed up to participate in this magic fight.

After a quick and brutal screening, 1024 players entered the official competition stage, which will be broadcast live on our VR Sports Channel. Everyone is welcome to watch it. "

"The fourth-generation industrial full-scenario solution created by Huawei was launched on the market not long ago. The market response is strong. Smart manufacturing giants led by Baosteel are likely to launch the next round of technology iteration."

"The second Global Mech Combat Conference jointly created by Kechuang Biotechnology and Tencent will reignite the flames of war this month, and robots from dozens of well-known companies around the world will show their skills on this stage.

Will Tesla, which lost in the finals last year, make a comeback? Will Sany Heavy Industry successfully defend its title this year? And what kind of dark horse will suddenly rise? All the suspense will be revealed in the next two months. "

The mecha fighting tournament created by Tencent and Kechuang Biotechnology only takes place for two months out of the year and requires ten months of preparation.

A total of 32 companies from all over the world gathered together, and everyone focused on deciding the outcome in these two months.

Because it involves many rounds of competition, there are high requirements for the damage resistance of the mecha.

In VR, the density of news is very high, and the official VR media also plays each piece of news in turn in an orderly manner.

Like the Toutiao app owned by ByteDance, once you are in it, you are surrounded by information streams all ringing at the same time.

Then you focus on a piece of news and that news will be highlighted.

Information is becoming increasingly fragmented.

On the contrary, the gaming industry, benefiting from the popularity of VR, is gradually returning to its original state.

Blockbuster games that focus on plot and gameplay are gradually becoming popular, while fast-food games and pay-to-win games are gradually losing the market.

After all, VR games are hard to play at first glance because of the shoddy graphics.

Players won’t spend money on games of poor quality, which leads to developers being unwilling to continue investing in optimization. This is a vicious cycle.

However, even for 3A masterpieces, various in-app purchases began to become popular in 2031.

Settings like in-app skin purchases, which do not affect the fairness of the game, have become normal operations.

“According to internal information, Kechuang Bio will release FutureVerse, which is equipped with the latest generation of brain-computer connection technology, at a new product launch conference in September this year. It has been three years since the last revolutionary breakthrough in brain-computer connection technology.

In the past three years, there is no generation gap in brain-computer connection technology between Kechuangwei’s VR and other brands’ products. Can the new products at Kechuangwei’s autumn conference this year bring new breakthroughs to consumers?

Li Miaomiao turned off the news and changed her clothes many times until she stopped when she was satisfied.

The good thing about the virtual world is that changing clothes only requires a thought.

Basically, every virtual city built by a company will have a built-in dressing function.

In Douyin’s virtual city, random dressing is even one of the biggest selling points.

Li Miaomiao selected the ones that she liked, and then walked directly from her room into the meeting room.

Compared to four years ago, many things have changed, but many things have not changed.

Remote work has gradually become a trend in private and foreign enterprises, and the rents of most office buildings have continued to fall.

Globally, remote work from home has become the mainstream. Except for the manufacturing industry, most companies no longer need a fixed office location.

Smart capital has already sold off its office buildings, which have lost their value and are not bundled with medical and educational resources.

With demand gone and nothing to forcibly support it, both office asset prices and rents have entered a downward channel.

In China, only state-owned enterprises still operate through office buildings.

This results in a new round of matching process between house prices and their residential property value.

A very important point in the added value of housing is commuting time, and now many young people no longer consider commuting time. In this era, even Lianjia’s house viewing is VR-guided, and you can directly enter Lianjia’s VR world, and the agent will enter the specific number to show you the house.

This is also bad news for local governments, which originally planned to build the so-called new district and then drive people from the old city to the new district by bundling them with job opportunities.

Then the strategy of selling residential land in the new district is no longer feasible.

Companies do not have the need to gather for offices. If you build a new district, the new district will not be able to provide enough job opportunities, which means there is no way to drive people to the new district.

There is no one in the new district and residential land cannot be sold at a high price.

You should know that the land in the old city has been almost sold out, and there is basically no residential land left to be auctioned. Demolition does cost money.

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“In this meeting, we need to discuss how the next generation of brain-computer connected VR can provide consumers with a better experience in terms of products.

If we only optimize the chip and display effects, we will not be able to widen the gap with other manufacturers.”

Li Miaomiao paused for a moment and then said, "Or should we just lower our marketing stance?"

These four years were commented by the outside world as the four years in which Zheng Li disappeared.

Compared with the revolutionary changes in each generation of brain-computer connection VR products in the past, the brain-computer connection VR in recent years is like Apple after losing Steve Jobs, with bigger chips, shorter bangs, and better cameras.

Although Ke Chuang Future's products still occupy an absolute leading position in the VR field, other manufacturers on the market have caught up.

This is the case with Ke Chuang Future and Ke Chuang Bio. The only new drug launched on the market in four years is the one that stimulates the regrowth of cardiomyocytes.

In the past four years, there have been voices in the capital market asking whether Ke Chuang Biotechnology has lost its past R&D capabilities and that they are now no different from ordinary technology companies.

At its peak, the market value of Ke Chuang Bio exceeded that of Apple, but now its market value is only half of Apple's and is even declining.

This valuation is barely supported by the third-generation brain-computer connection technology.

Currently, the second-generation brain-computer connection technology is sold to major manufacturers on a pay-per-use basis.

The third-generation brain-computer connection technology only realizes the feeling of dizziness, converting electrical signals into neural signals.

More hype than reality.

When it first came out, public opinion on various social platforms seemed to have seen the dawn of virtual reality and praised scientific and technological innovation to the sky.

Three years later, users have been waiting to see whether Ke Chuang Bio's new products can bring them a new generation of experience revolution.

Consumers don’t care how difficult the technology is to implement; they only see the final product that is presented to them, losing the ability to surprise them.

“Just now when I was watching the news, I saw a media report saying that our new products will have innovations in brain-computer connection technology.

I was panicked for a moment because I knew we didn't.

There are only improvements in chip processing speed and display effects, and most consumers cannot perceive this improvement through their senses.

Consumers will buy it. When they purchase brain-computer VR, they will still recognize the Ke Chuang brand. This is because we have always been at the forefront of technology.

I don’t know whether consumers will still buy into this in the future.

Consumers’ trust is limited, and we need to come up with countermeasures. Everyone can speak freely. There is still more than half a year before the autumn conference. "

Li Miaomiao has been in a senior executive position at Kechuang Biotechnology for ten years, and has served as general manager for more than five years.

Such a long time is enough for her to establish her own prestige, not to mention when Zheng Li is not around.

Compared with four years ago, Li Miaomiao's appearance has not changed at all. She is still young and beautiful, no different from a girl who just graduated from college.

The only difference is temperament. The temperament cultivated by being in a high position for a long time is not possessed by ordinary people.

After Li Miaomiao finished speaking, the atmosphere became depressing.

“I think we should not act in a low-key manner, but should act in a high-handed manner.

This generation of consumers may be dissatisfied, but due to the inertia of the past, FutureVerse will still achieve good sales.

As long as we can achieve technological breakthroughs and launch emotional feedback in the next generation of products, consumers’ trust in us will return.

The iteration of technology itself is very difficult, especially since we are at the forefront of brain-computer connection technology.

Musk's Neuralink is the most advanced company other than us in brain-computer connection technology, but the latest laboratory technology released has only reached the level of our first-generation brain-computer connection VR technology.

For the next generation of brain-computer connection technology, we can find a marketing company that specializes in marketing. It is not easy to achieve breakthroughs in our technology. "

said the executive with flowers in the background.

Li Miaomiao asked: "How can we ensure that the next generation of futureverse can smoothly carry the next generation of brain-computer connection technology?"

The executives present really wanted to say that there would be absolutely no problem if Zheng Li took charge.

During these four years, Zheng Li has been basically invisible within Ke Chuang Bio, and no one knows what research direction he is leading.

Even when allocated to research topics, researchers only received a small portion of it.

You can't see the whole picture by looking at the tube.

Li Wanqing is now fully responsible for the research and development of brain-computer connection technology.

However, none of the executives present dared to say this, and the executive who had mentioned this before was marginalized not long after.

(End of this chapter)