As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 78: The First Year of Metaverse Concept

At the beginning of this year, Roblox's CEO took the lead in promoting the Metaverse: The Metaverse is an online space where we can work, play, and entertain.

Then Facebook founder Zuckerberg quickly followed up and said:
The immersive virtual social environment is an important part of the metaverse. FB should first develop VR and then AR.

VR has been promoted by the industry for a long time, and there have been practical products being produced, including VR games and VR movies.

In recent years, Japan has made many movies using VR as a gimmick.

AR stands for augmented reality, which can be understood as a more advanced and realistic projection. The virtual world and the real world interact through 3D projection, and the boundary between virtual and reality is broken.

The dragon at the S7 League of Legends World Finals was the landing of AR.

However, compared with VR, AR mostly appears in large-scale commercial activities, and personal applications are rarely implemented.

To some extent, the present-world talisman of Zhuchang Onmyoji can also be considered AR.

At present, AR seems to be further away from us than VR.

In May, Take-Two, the parent company behind GTA developer Rockstar Games, announced:

GTAonline has been working on the Metaverse for a long time, and now the industry is discussing the Metaverse, AR, and VR.

In July, Zuckerberg said again: The goal of the metaverse is to build a minimalist, interconnected world, and social interaction in virtual space is an important infrastructure of the metaverse.

What does this mean? FB is going to enter the metaverse in a big way, and we will build the basic element of social networking for everyone in the metaverse.

As for minimalism, I guess Xiao Shihu wants to learn from Tencent's approach. If you have no money, just the initial character wearing shorts is minimalist enough, and there is nothing in your virtual space.

It's called minimalism.

If you are rich, you can wear designer clothes and live in a mansion in the metaverse. The gap between the rich and the poor will be reflected more vividly in the metaverse.

By September, Apple and Tencent couldn't help it. Cook said: I feel that the Metaverse is more like another name for AR.

Xiao Ma claims that the metaverse makes the virtual world more real and the real world more rich in virtual experience, which is a direction of integration.

Everyone says that 2021 is the first year of the Metaverse. This wave of enthusiasm began to be discussed in March and was transmitted to the A-share market in September. Zhongqingbao, as the leader of the first wave of Metaverse concepts, soared by more than 3% in one month.

The Metaverse has always been considered a scam by some or most people in China, and its gimmick far outweighs its significance.

Some people think that these are just outdated technologies such as VR and AR, which are repackaged under different names and launched into the market.

This is the same as the view in 2008 that the iPhone was just a fusion of an MP4 and a mobile phone. Smartphones are just an integration of mature technologies, but they have led to the booming development of the mobile phone industry in the next decade.

New giants have emerged one after another thanks to the wave of smartphones, and old mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia have been acquired, and their brands have almost disappeared in the Chinese market.

The same principle applies to the metaverse. Its biggest selling point is that it breaks down the boundaries between virtual and reality, giving the real world a broader boundary.

There is no denying that this is also an integration of existing technologies, but it will effectively promote industrial development and technological progress.

It is better to say that 2021 is the first year of the metaverse concept rather than the first year of the metaverse. The real first year of the metaverse will have to wait until a comprehensive metaverse device like the first iPhone is launched on the market.

According to the current development of the industry, it is estimated that we will have to wait until 2025. Now these companies are the first to get started, and everyone wants to gain an advantage in the third wave of the Internet.

The first wave of the Internet was the widespread popularization of PCs, the second wave of the Internet was the rapid development of smartphones, and the Metaverse will be the third wave of the Internet.

The end of this wave of the Internet is the beginning of the maturity of virtual reality. In this crazy environment, Kechuang Biotech is preparing to go public. As a monopoly enterprise in brain-computer connection, Kechuang Biotech is also labeled as the metaverse.

Everyone knows that if we want to truly realize the metaverse, we cannot do without brain-computer interaction.

Even augmented reality, combined with brain-computer connectivity, can create a wider range of gameplay.

The brain-computer connection technology authorized by Ke Chuang Biotechnology is only a very basic brain-computer connection. It can only capture your eye nerve signals in combination with the front camera to determine where you want to click.

It can't do that. If you want to control the volume of your phone, or turn your phone on and off and restart, it can't do that.

But even so, with the help of brain-computer connection, game manufacturers have come up with many ways to play.

One of the most popular mini-games recently is called Summon the Dragon, which is a mini-game in which you control the direction of tadpoles and then slowly devour them to evolve.

It is still a stand-alone game. You evolve from a tadpole to a frog to a turtle and then to a goldfish, all the way to a dragon.

This is such a game. Its manufacturer claimed in its promotion that it is a perfect combination of gaming and brain-computer connection. Many people become addicted to it once they play it.

"Playing Summon the Dragon in the middle of the night turned into a survival game for me."

“I can only say that playing with a brain-computer connected to a phone and playing with your hands are two completely different experiences.”

"Finally summoned!"

After the game was launched, it ranked in the top five on Weibo’s hot search list, the related super topic quickly exceeded 1 million, and the Qiandui search index also rose rapidly.

The developer of this game claims that the daily active users have exceeded 200 million.

You have to know that this is just a small flash game, and the gameplay is very similar to Snake, but it is extremely popular on major social media, especially on Tik Tok, where the number of views has exceeded one billion.

Other game manufacturers believe that this is because they are taking advantage of the brain-computer connection gimmick.

In addition to Xiaomi, brain-computer connected mobile phones from companies such as OV, Huawei, and Samsung are already on the market.

Among them, Samsung's mobile phone that combines brain-computer connection with a folding screen received the highest rating, but Xiaomi's mix 4, which focuses on cost-effectiveness, still has the best sales.

Although Mi Mix 4 is claimed to be a high-end model, it is still cost-effective among high-end models.

Especially after competitors' brain-computer-connected mobile phones were launched on the market, Mi began to reduce prices, first by 1 yuan per day on 500 units to get them ready for Mi fans to grab.

After Samsung's brain-computer-connected foldable screen phone was launched, the price of Xiaomi Mi Mix 4 was reduced by 500 yuan, which made the president of OPPO curse privately:

"That's all Lei Jun's plan is. Rice will never be able to gain a foothold in the real high-end market."

Institutions definitely get data much faster than retail investors.

The data here include not only the latest institutional holdings of individual stocks and industry research reports, but also corporate production capacity and industry data analysis. By the time retail investors can see these data, there is a lag of at least one month.

For example, the IDG smartphone industry shipment data report may be obtained by institutions in January, but by the time retail investors see it, it is already March.

If smartphone shipments last year were lower than expected, institutions would have already fled, but retail investors are still waiting.

I drank again tonight and watched the Chinese national football team. I was really angry. This chapter is a little late. Sorry~
Thanks to Zizhijiguang and zyi2 for the reward!
Then I want to ask if there are any readers who followed my last book? I always feel that some of the people who voted for me look familiar.
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