I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 495 Mirage 1.0 (5470)

"I am Cao!"

"Fuck!"

"Lying on the grass!"

"Fuck!"

In the hall, more than thirty otakus and seven or eight fujoshis spontaneously uttered the first reflex words of the human language central system.

Even Wei Ao, who usually liked to speak in doggerel, could only scratch his ears and utter "Fuck".

They didn't notice that after the two words "Lei Ze", there was a bracket with the word "Ying" written in it.

What's this! ?

AR for augmented reality?

It’s AR! ?
The more knowledgeable people were, the more shocked they were. The most shocked was Zhu Yifei who just asked the question.

Because he is the best at this.

Linglan Games is a company that develops VR games specifically for Suo Dafa.

In the industry, there is a common understanding that AR is much more difficult than VR. The vice president of Sodafa who specializes in VR has publicly stated that AR is an order of magnitude more difficult than VR.

The so-called one order of magnitude means ten times.

VR only needs to build a virtual space without dealing with the complexity of real scenes, and both software and hardware solutions are relatively mature.

To put it simply, it is a small high-resolution display screen installed behind the lens, which is no different from a telescope with a screen.

Other functions such as motion capture and positioning tracking are just added functions to optimize the experience.

But AR is different. AR needs to accurately superimpose virtual information on real-world images, and needs to solve the implementation of environmental tracking, lighting matching, object occlusion... Almost every problem has no practical solution so far.

Currently in the AR field, there are only two products: Google Glass and pseudo-soft HoloLens.

Google Glass was released two years ago, but it only lasted for a little over a year, as it was announced in January last year that development had ceased.

Microsoft's HoloLens is currently the most advanced AR device.

In June, Zhu Yifei got the development version of HoloLens as a developer and even recorded an unboxing video.

After trying it out, Zhu Yifei was amazed by the powerful performance of HoloLens.

Five days ago, VisionSoft announced that HoloLens officially entered commercial use, making it the first true AR headset product.

In Zhu Yifei's view, HoloLens is at least three to five years ahead of the industry.

Of course, this does not mean that pseudo-software will eventually become the big winner of AR. The limited computing power of the headset means that this thing can only be a big toy in the short term, and it is far from practical.

What’s even worse is that the development ecosystem and product ecosystem are basically blank, with neither suitable development tools nor developers.

The few applications that exist are all resource exchanges between Pseudosoft and other partners.

As for Google Glass, it is just a head-mounted camera. It is useless except for taking secret photos.

When Pocket Monster Go was released three months ago, Zhu Yifei couldn't help but applaud and exclaimed that this was the most realistic landing direction for AR.

Pocket Monster Go is locked in China. At that time, he was discussing the project with Solomon in Japan. After downloading and using it in Japan's AppStore, Zhu Yifei found that the AR of Pocket Monster Go was actually more of a gimmick.

When AR is turned on, players are unable to catch monsters due to the unstable AR effect.

Except when showing off to non-players, most of the time, players will turn off AR, otherwise their blood pressure will soar by 180 when catching a monster.

But what on earth is this video that Yuzu Technology is playing now?!

True augmented reality?
No, this is far beyond the general definition of AR in the industry!
At least from the video, the fusion of virtual images and the real environment is almost seamless, with almost no visible delay, and no ghosting, drifting or layering as the phone shakes.

Zhu Yifei was so shocked that the word "wow" got stuck in his throat and he couldn't utter it. He just stared at the details of the picture frame by frame with his eyes wide open and holding his breath.

How is it possible to achieve such expressiveness?
Although the imagination and artistry of the environment and creature modeling are a bit lacking, these are just artistic issues. In terms of technology and details, he can't find any fault with them at all!

What’s even more outrageous is that it doesn’t even look like a headset like HoloLens, but it’s just using a cellphone camera to model the scene?!
Does the phone have enough computing power?
Not to mention Ren Tianguo, even the most powerful pointer game in the industry can't do it.

Pocket Monster Go is the best commercial AR game, but it is not the best in terms of technology.

The most technologically advanced AR game right now is The Machines, which uses real-time spatial modeling. However, this game currently only has a preview version and has not been publicly released. The game's developer is Pointer Games.

Pointer Games did not come today, because strictly speaking this company is not part of the Da Zhou gaming circle. The boss is an Icelander, but the company is located in Haipu, so it can only be considered a half Da Zhou company.

This video is fake, right?
The water was rising, but no one had time to question it, as they were shocked by the following scenes.

As the camera switched, the boy appeared on a lawn again.

The boy's cell phone screen seemed to be filled with a sea of ​​grass. Several savages in white feathered clothes were driving tigers, leopards, black bears and other wild beasts, chasing a yellow animal that looked similar to a fox. The difference was that this fox had two antelope-like sharp horns on both sides of its back!

The fox ran around and seemed to have discovered the boy. It turned and ran towards him, making a chirping sound, then jumped up and landed on the boy's screen.

Two large cursive characters with flying ink exploded on the big screen with a sound of "Cheng Huang".

Then, the camera pulled up again, and a mark appeared on the lawn as a light spot on the map.

"White People Original (Film)"

The camera switches continuously, in the mountains, in the community, in the shopping mall, in the library, on the hillside in the suburbs... Every time the boy appears in a place, the real image on the mobile phone screen is attached with a layer of subtle light and shadow.

And every place in reality, in the light and shadow of the screen, has become "Sanwei Mountain", "Yumin Square", "Water Skiing"...

At this moment, the images captured through the mobile phone screen seem as if the virtual world and reality are completely integrated.

Although it was still obvious that these lights and shadows were "produced" and the artistic level was very average, the technical level was far beyond the imagination of everyone present.

In addition, each place name has a suffix "影".

The pace of the video suddenly became faster. On the screen, the young man was holding a mobile phone and appeared in various scenes in reality. And the dragon was in his mobile phone, fighting with him in the virtual world superimposed with reality and various different creatures!

Fuck! As expected, the pet system!
Does Youzi Technology want to use the settings of Shan Hai Jing to make a game similar to Pocket Monsters Go?

Pocket Monster Go has become extremely popular in the past two months, and Ren Tianguo's stock price has risen by 120% in ten trading days. Almost overnight, dozens of fraudulent games have appeared on the Google Play market.

But no big company has followed suit. After all, Ren Tianguo's Pocket Monster IP is naturally suitable for this theme. Except for Capcom's Monster Hunter, other big companies have no similar themes that can compete with Pocket Monster.

Monster Hunter is essentially an action game and is not suitable for the gimmick of AR.

Shan Hai Jing? That seems like a good idea.

Everyone in the venue had different expressions.

If these images are real, the game will definitely be a hit when it is released based on this technology alone, but the retention rate is hard to say.

After all, this kind of real-life AR game that requires running around is just a pet development battle. It is hard to say whether it can keep players staying.

Pocket Monster can be done because the game IP itself has collectible attributes.

In the past twenty years, animation, games, and peripherals... have made this IP have a considerable base of loyal fans, and even each character and monster has a corresponding fan base.

Although Shan Hai Jing is a Chinese classic, it belongs to the cultural level, not the traffic level, and it really cannot compete with Pocket Monster in terms of commercialization.

The battle scenes switched quickly, and when they slowed down, the camera began to zoom out from the boy's phone screen and move upwards.

A boy, also about seventeen or eighteen years old, appeared on the other side of the city street holding a mobile phone, and the two men made eye contact across the air.

And Cheng Huang in the boy's phone also made an angry and sharp roar at a ferocious wild boar with small wings opposite.

The images of the two people suddenly stopped and the screen gradually turned black.

has it ended?

Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief and were about to raise their hands to ask questions, the speakers hanging from the roof rang again.

An old voice came from the speaker.

"Before the primordial chaos, the universe had no place, the four poles were not divided, and the world was boundless."

"In the Great Desolation, all things blend together, there is no distinction between realms, and gods and demons coexist."

? ? ? ? ?

Is this... an introduction to the world view?

This game has a worldview?

Hearing the sound from the speakers, several people from Game Philosophy, especially Wei Ao and Sui Yi, couldn't help but look at each other.

This tune is just what they like.

The old man's voice continued to be heard from the speakers: "In an unknown number of years, the Taihuang suddenly split apart, the myriad worlds fell apart, the heavens lost their order, and the remaining fragments of the book are nowhere to be found."

“Some saints and wise men may occasionally see a corner of it, and record its appearance, gods and monsters, pictures of strange beasts, and biographies, which are both real and imaginary and bizarre.”

"But after a long separation, there will be reunion. Now the stars are returning to their positions, shaking the ages. Many broken worlds are falling and overlapping in the present world."

"The first one to fall is named——Shanhaijie!"!!!

The expressions of many people present changed.

There's something quite about this world view.

It is quite clever to use the return of the mountain and sea world to enhance the player's sense of immersion.

Wei Ao frowned, feeling that it was not that simple.

Especially the sentence "The first one to fall is named - Shanhaijie".

Could it be that……

The old voice in the speakers gradually faded away, and then, a burst of war drum sounds that gradually became faster and faster came from the speakers.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom..."

Then, the six large screens in the venue lit up again.

The camera quickly pulled up from an ordinary street in Haixi, and soon it reached an altitude of hundreds of thousands of meters, already out of the Karman line of the atmosphere.

The vast land of Da Zhou is clearly visible under your feet!
Afterwards, the camera was aimed at the misty area in the west of Da Zhou. The camera fell rapidly, and soon, a real scene of a towering mountain appeared on the big screen.

"Bayankala Mountain!"

Among the people present, there were those who loved hiking and recognized the mountain at a glance.

Golden lines flickered on the screen, first outlining the outline, and then the light and shadow gradually condensed, and a fairy-like palace appeared on the top of the mountain.

There are nine gates on each side of the palace, and on both sides of the gates, there are two monsters with nine human heads guarding the door.

Five large golden characters appeared on the screen again: Kunlun Queen Mother Palace!

And this time, there is no suffix after the location.

What's the meaning! ?

There was an uproar among the seven or eight quick-witted game planners in the room.

Are they going to make the entire Great Zhou into a real-life map?!

The picture changed rapidly, as if God was moving a globe, suddenly sweeping from the western plateau to the eastern hills.

"Qingqiu!"

Two white cursive characters appeared on the screen again, again without any suffix.

In the forest, where vegetation was lush, a huge white fox was lazily lying beside a small river, and behind it, it had nine tails!

The camera keeps moving across the land of Da Zhou, and wherever it goes, it’s all a presentation of real scenes plus AR!
Qingqiu, Chishui, Kuaiji Mountain, Jiyizhize, Dan'er Kingdom...almost every piece of land in the Great Zhou corresponds one by one to the worldview of Shanhaijing!

How could the planners present not understand what this means after seeing this?
According to this worldview, those with "shadow" in their names might just be projections of the mountain and sea world before it fell.

As for how to play the "Shadow" map, it is either a novice village instance or a lightweight scene that undertakes daily tasks.

And these maps of the entire Great Zhou without the suffix "影"... No, judging from what Youguo Games is saying, maybe they want to make the entire Blue Planet into a big map!

Is this large map the main map of the game?
Pocket Monsters Go is also a global map, but that is just a monster refreshed on the Google map, and then you use the GPS to go to the location to fight the monster.

And this "Taihuang: Mountain and Sea Realm" really wants to overlap a layer of virtual world in the real world!
How can this be! ?
However, the promotional video after the world view introduction is not shown from the perspective of the player’s mobile phone. Does this mean that the latter part is just the idea of ​​Youguo Technology and has not yet been actually implemented?
That's not right. Even the previous part can't be true!
This is definitely a special effects video! It's definitely not a real machine demonstration!
Although the promotional video has not yet ended, many people in the audience can't help but raise their hands to ask questions.

Among all the people present, Wei Ao had the most in-depth research on the subject of Shan Hai Jing. Just as he was about to raise his hand, he saw that the rhythm of the promotional video had changed again.

He is very sensitive to the camera, and every game trailer he makes is very well made, much better than the quality of the games themselves.

As soon as he saw the change in the rhythm of the shots, he knew that the director of this promotional video must be up to something again.

There will definitely be a hook or something at the end.

The camera flew close to the surface of the blue sea, suddenly dived into the sea, and then continued to dive.

Beneath the pitch-black seabed, it seemed as if several golden threads were constantly twisting and moving. Through the faint light emitted by the golden threads, one could see a huge pillar that seemed to be lying horizontally under the seabed.

The seabed around the giant pillar seemed to be a vague collection of ruins.

Suddenly, the golden line seemed to move a little faster, and then, the light emitted by the golden line became brighter and brighter, and the giant pillar vibrated violently. Although the light had illuminated the seabed, the shaking of the giant pillar caused mud and sand to stir up, and the seabed became turbid. One could only see that the giant pillar seemed to be starting to stand up from lying horizontally!
The camera jumped out from the rapids of the seabed, rose quickly, and returned to the sea surface. The sea surface also began to lose its calmness and huge waves were set off.

Compared to the waves now, the huge waves of the "shadow" Lei Ze in the park before were just like those created by a Tsukuba machine in a swimming pool.

Amidst the huge waves, a giant pillar shining with golden light rose up from the bottom of the sea. Its bottom seemed to still support the seabed, while its end had already reached the surface of the sea!
Seeing this scene, Wei Ao and Sui Yi stood up at the same time, with excitement on their faces.

Dinghai Shenzhen!

Anyone from the Great Zhou Dynasty who sees this scene, who doesn’t know what it represents! ?

Journey to the West!

Youguo Games, have you already started planning the second game before you even finished your first one?

And the second one is Journey to the West?

Integrate Journey to the West into the world of Classic of Mountains and Seas?

No, this is about integrating Classic of Mountains and Seas, Journey to the West, and maybe even more worlds, into their worldview of "Taihuang"!

When the Dinghai Shenzhen, which had a diameter of hundreds of meters, stood upright in the middle of the sea, the picture froze completely.

The entire video was finally played.

As soon as this scene ended, the hall was silent for three full seconds, as if someone had pressed the pause button.

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Firstly, they had not yet come to their senses. Secondly, they all wanted to ask questions, but they didn't know where to start or how to ask them.

The whole collapse is questionable!
You can't just say: Mr. Fang, are you bragging?
"square……"

Wei Ao was the first to come to his senses. He raised his hand eagerly, and just as he said the word "Fang", he heard an Ezhou accent coming from across a few tables.

Hey, hey, hey? Why don't you have martial ethics? I raised my hand and you interrupted me?
Wei Ao glared in Zhu Yifei's direction, but Zhu Yifei was unaware.

"Mr. Fang, I'd like to ask, what engine do you use for "Taihuang: Mountain and Sea Realm"? "

"As far as I know, there is probably no game engine that can make a game like this now."

"Or is this just a promotional video made with special effects, not a real machine demonstration?"

Zhu Yifei has a round face and wears glasses. He looks like a middle-aged office worker with all his facial features wrinkled together like a bun.

Hearing Zhu Yifei's question, everyone nodded involuntarily, with a look of sudden realization on their faces, and focused their attention on Fang Yu.

After all, he is a big shot in the console game industry, and he can see the problem very clearly.

Yes, there is no engine that can support this game.

Can you, Yuzi Technology, make an engine by yourself?

Facing everyone's gaze, Fang Yu picked up the bottle of water, unscrewed it and took a sip.

"Mr. Zhu's online name is Tiger Boss, right?"

"You are right. There is indeed no engine that can support the production and operation of "Taihuang: Mountain and Sea Realm" at present."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yifei's eyebrows twitched, and he couldn't help but reveal a look that said, "As expected, it's a special effect."

So, this time, I guess we're going to do some AR modeling?
Just as Zhu Yifei was about to ask further questions, he saw Fang Yu grinning.

"Because there really isn't one, so..."

“We developed one ourselves.”

Developed one yourself?
Game engine?

Are you talking nonsense?
Seeing forty or fifty pairs of confused eyes in the audience, Fang Yu pressed the remote control and the six large screens switched to the keynote page.

“Because Unreal Engine 4 and Unity simply cannot support this level of computing, the support for AR is not enough.”

"In addition, we found that their rendering pipelines were too heavy, with high module coupling, and obvious performance bottlenecks when deployed on mobile terminals, which could not support our AR gameplay with dynamic environment perception and real-time physical feedback."

"Their rendering mechanism is not suitable for our design requirements that require multi-layer overlay, real-time fusion of real environment, and customized material fusion logic."

“The main thing is that in AR, their latency is so bad that we can’t use them at all.”

"So we simply wrote a version of the engine ourselves, and also made a set of corresponding development tools to help developers with development."

"This is the world's first 'reality-based' AR integrated construction platform developed by Youguo Games itself, with layered rendering and environmental understanding capabilities.

"——Mirage 1.0."

After saying that, Fang Yu pressed the page turner and a page of keynote appeared on the screen.

(End of this chapter)