As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 367 Blue Star II
"Long time no see, Mr. Lei. We are the only ones who are still fighting in the business world after all these years."

The conference hall at Ke Chuang Bio's headquarters was filled with big names, and the CEOs of almost all Internet giants were present.

Although there are many bigwigs from home and abroad, in fact, these people have already been replaced by new generations.

Basically, the founders no longer show up in public. People like Jack Ma, Dong Zi, and Huang Zheng have all retreated to the second line.

Steve Jobs has passed away, Bill Gates retired early, and Bezos will retire in 2028.

The founders who are still working on the front line are Lei Jun, Pony Ma, Zhang Yiming and Robin Li, and abroad there is also Zuckerberg.

But for Pony Ma, the only person he can chat with is Lei Jun. He and Zhang Yiming have been fighting a business war for many years. The war between ByteDance and Tencent has lasted from the mobile Internet era to the VR era.

It's not easy to maintain politeness in public.

Although Lei Jun and Pony Ma have also worked in the instant messaging field, and there was the battle between MiTalk and WeChat many years ago, many years have passed.

In recent years, there have been a lot of cooperative relationships between Tencent and Lei Jun's industries.

Taking Kingsoft Software as an example, Tencent is the major shareholder of Kingsoft Software and Cheetah Mobile.

The actual controller of these two companies is Lei Jun.

As for Robin Li, they also have no way of chatting. Their temperaments are just not the same.

Lei Jun looked at Pony Ma, and his originally small eyes disappeared instantly: "Mr. Ma, you came in person.

I must lead the team myself.

The right to develop a virtual world, who can resist this temptation?
Who would miss such a rare opportunity?

I took a quick look and I can’t count on my hands the number of people here who are richer than I am.”

Lei Jun's net worth is estimated at more than 2031 billion Euros. Since , due to the severe decline in the valuations of his companies, it is now less than billion Euros.

“Only by truly experiencing the virtual world can you know the impact it will have on the real world.”

The bigwigs of the Chinese business community present had more or less heard that Lei Jun had obtained a prototype of the virtual reality device as early as the beginning of the year.

Each of them has close executives, and each of them has a prototype of the virtual reality device at home.

But they had only felt this thing with their hands and had never actually used it.

When Lei Jun brought it up, the big guys who heard it lowered their voices or even kept quiet, wanting to hear what Lei Jun thought.

After all, you can see different things depending on the height you stand at.

Lei Jun should look at problems with greater depth and breadth than the executives of Kechuang Bio.

Pony Ma saw that Lei Jun stopped talking after he mentioned it, so he quickly asked, "Then what?

I am also very curious about the virtual world.

About ten years ago, I proposed the concept of true interconnection. In fact, breakthroughs in brain-computer connection technology are already close to the true interconnection world that I described.

Whether it is in the promotional videos, the speeches of the senior executives, or the comments of the people in private communication, the virtual world is one step closer to the concept of full reality interconnection. "

Lei Jun shook his head: "Pony, the concept of full-fledged interconnection that you mentioned at the time was, to put it bluntly, a further elaboration of the concept of the metaverse at the time.

It just means blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds. You just hope that through Tencent and its partners in the Tencent ecosystem, everyone can work together to build and improve your ecosystem.

It’s not the same as building a virtual world in the true sense.

In my opinion, the virtual world of scientific and technological innovation is intended to replace the real world, and the significance of the real world will be weakened rather than integrated.

The significance of the virtual world is to give each individual more choices.

If they can succeed in the real world, then they should live in the real world; if they can be more successful in the virtual world, then they should live in the virtual world.

The task of breaking through the boundary between the real world and the virtual world has been completed in the era of brain-computer connection VR. The virtual world means more choices for individuals and the restart of class circulation. "

This is the result of Lei Jun's long thinking. He is the only one among the big guys present who has experienced the virtual world himself.

After the experience, he truly realized that the degree of realism that virtual reality devices can achieve makes the meaning of the real world infinitely weakened.

He came to this conclusion based on the dramatic fluctuations in the global capital market over the past year.

Pony agrees: "Every technological advancement will create new profit-making groups and a new class of rentiers.

The extent of technological breakthroughs determines the size of the profitable group.

I also believe that the technological breakthrough of Ke Chuang Bio's virtual reality equipment is enough to bring earth-shaking changes to the world.

Or rather, the changes began at the beginning of this year.

Aren’t we sitting here today just to become the beneficiary group of the new era? "

Lei Jun continued: “That’s why I am pessimistic about today’s cooperation.

Kechuang Bio is likely to offer extremely harsh cooperation conditions.”

Li Yanhong, who had been listening to their conversation silently, could not help but said, "We will come, and come in person, so we must have made preparations.

After all, there are certain conditions that only we have the right to decide.

Our advantage over overseas giants who send professional managers is that we can make the final decision on some of the harsh conditions ourselves.”

Baidu has missed two eras. Whether it is the mobile Internet era or the VR era, it can be said that Baidu missed it completely.

There are basically no products that are influential enough.

To this day, the only product they can offer on the To C side is Baidu Search, which was developed thirty years ago.

The only good thing is that in the third decade of the 21st century, Baidu seized the dividends of artificial intelligence.

By leveraging its years of sustained investment in the field of artificial intelligence, Baidu has accumulated some core technology patents and has done well in the field of industrial Internet in recent years.

It is precisely because Baidu has caught the trend of artificial intelligence that it has not fallen behind in the new era, and its situation in recent years has been even better than that of Ali.

Ali's core business now is cloud computing, and both e-commerce and online payment sectors have shown a clear trend of decline.

“And Mr. Lei, given your long-term cooperation with Kechuang Biotechnology, you should have heard some news.

I think I have prepared myself mentally," Li Yanhong added.

He felt that Lei Jun was acting like this on purpose to scare off potential competitors.

Before Li Yanhong brought his senior executives to Suzhou for a meeting, everyone held a sandbox simulation meeting internally, and there were many speculations about the mode of this cooperation.

This includes the form of blind bidding.

Everyone writes down a price, and then Kechuang Bio selects the company with the highest bid as its partner.

Lei Jun shook his head and said, "The interests involved this time are too great, and I haven't heard anything about it."

The waiting time was not very long, and everyone was a potential opponent. After Li Yanhong interrupted, Lei Jun and Pony Ma obviously lost interest in talking.

Li Miaomiao walked into the venue and said, "I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. You have all been partners of Kechuang Biotechnology for many years.

There are many familiar faces here, some of whom have been cooperating with us since the establishment of Kechuang Bio.

Later, there were also partners in the fields of brain-computer connection and artificial intelligence.

In any case, Kechuang Biotechnology is very grateful for your presence. Our cooperation this time is very simple, that is, virtual world development! "

The above-mentioned large characters appeared on the projection screen behind Li Miaomiao: Virtual World Development Rights.

Her words were translated into various languages ​​in real time by translation software, conveying her meaning accurately.

“That’s right, the virtual world is not infinite, and there will definitely not be large-scale open virtual world development in the future.

As we all know, biological computers will be used in the future, and the development logic of the virtual world is completely different from traditional software programming.

It is necessary to use the software developed by Ke Chuang Biotechnology specifically for the virtual world.

At the same time, it is necessary to use the large-scale biological computer of Ke Chuang Biotechnology for programming.

Therefore the development window is limited.

And more importantly, if the virtual world is infinite, it will be detrimental to the economy of Blue Star.

Because the reality of the virtual world is very close to the real world.

It is entirely possible to equate assets in the virtual world with assets in the real world.

For example, land supply. If the land supply in the virtual world is unlimited, then real estate in the real world will suffer a devastating blow.

Similarly, any software company can develop a virtual world, and virtual assets can expand without boundaries.

The value of both virtual assets and real-world assets will face the risk of returning to zero.

We hope that everyone can explore more possibilities of life in the virtual world, rather than letting everyone’s wealth disappear into thin air without creating any value.

People are lost in countless virtual worlds.”

Li Miaomiao's logic is also the logic of Ke Chuang Bio's senior executives.

They hope that the assets in the virtual world will be benchmarked against the limited BTC rather than the unlimited distribution of SHIB.

Although those present are executives of Internet companies, they all have listed companies under their umbrella, and China's Internet giants have been involved in financial business for a long time, so it is easy for them to understand Li Miaomiao's underlying meaning.

Big companies like Baidu's Du Xiaoman Finance, Ali's Ant Financial, and Tencent's financial business is even broader.

Medium-sized manufacturers such as Weibo, 360, Zhihu, etc. all have financial businesses. Even leaders in the niche market such as Ctrip have made considerable investments in financial businesses.

In the eyes of Internet companies, having their own traffic means being able to attract customers with low customer acquisition costs, and then combining it with Internet technology to promote some financial products.

If the traffic is large enough, even shit can be packaged as gold and sold.

Even the largest financial companies will package their junk assets into high-quality financial products and sell them to investors.

An overseas example is the 2008 financial crisis.

The domestic example that had a relatively great impact was the real estate bond issue that started in 2019. The frequent defaults caused the asset management products of some securities companies to be brought down from the altar.

The same thing will happen to a large number of municipal bonds and local government bonds starting from 2025, and investors will suffer.

You have no idea that the principal-guaranteed product you bought, as described by the so-called financial manager, could actually go bankrupt.

The financial manager is also depressed because his superiors told me that local debt will never collapse.

The professional managers and founders at the meeting quickly realized that all those present were competitors.

Li Miaomiao nodded and said: "Currently, the worlds opened by Kechuang Biotechnology are all virtual worlds, and there is no overlap with the real world.

From history to culture to species, all are designed by Ke Chuang Biology.

Based on our internal assessment, we will develop three more virtual worlds.

That means there will be a total of five virtual worlds running.

The fantasy world is a stand-alone world that will not affect the real world, and its economic system will not interact with the real world.

The other four virtual worlds will interact with the real world.

Then among the remaining three virtual worlds, the first one is the projection of the real world in the virtual world.

That is to say, moving the real world into the virtual world.

Over the years, they have evolved from Google Earth to Baidu Maps, Apple Maps, and then to Musk's Starlink system.

Sufficient image resources have been collected.

We can perfectly replicate every inch of land on the blue planet.

But the problem is that feeling can't be replicated.

For example, the Science and Technology Innovation and Biological Conference Hall where we are now, we know what it looks like, and the images are complete and can be modeled on the computer to perfectly replicate the 3D image.

You can even operate it inside.

But we don't know what the chair feels like to sit on, the smell of the air, the touch of the carpet, and so on.

The virtual world is not just about vision; it is made up of a variety of senses and is very similar to the real world.

We replicate the real world in the virtual world. In order to pursue authenticity as much as possible, we need to combine the memories of as many individuals as possible.

That is to say, people's feelings are collected through equipment, and then these feelings are summarized and finally produce an impact.

Many people must have visited Taihu Lake in Suzhou. The more people there are, the more memories we collect, and the more real Taihu Lake we replicate in the virtual world will be.

At the same time, the virtual world also needs to have various businesses, which requires negotiations with large and small companies, not just large companies.

We named this project Blue Star 2.

It is somewhat similar to the Huanyu Pengcheng that Tencent once made.

Of course some people will ask what the point is.

The significance lies in that the delicate world can realize more functions.

People cannot fly in the real world, but they can in the virtual world.

People cannot teleport in the real world, but they can in the virtual world.

In the real world, people may have to spend millions or even tens of millions to buy a sports car, but in the virtual world, buying a sports car may only cost a few dollars.

The user experience is exactly the same as in the real world.

Humans can do everything in Bluestar-2 that you cannot do in the real world.

This is the purpose of the existence of Bluestar 2.

The concept of this virtual world is relatively complete. The only way we need to cooperate is how to operate and manage it, and to complete the plan based on our concept.

This includes how to price Bluestar-2's virtual assets, the cooperative relationship between governments, and how the economic system should be built.

Is it a stand-alone world or an online world, etc. "

Sorry, I was a bit lazy during the National Day holiday, basically I was hanging out outside every day. . .

One update left, I’ll find a chance to make it up!

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