"What's wrong?
"Well, I remember a little back in the day."
"Really? Well, fine."
Immersed in nostalgic memories, Lynn operated the remote control in a way she didn't particularly care.
"Ma, if you have 30 monitors, it's enough to pack your knowledge in one day today. Tomorrow we'll have a light fire and we'll have a real fight, and the day after tomorrow, it'll feel like a tournament."
"I'll leave it up to Lynn to judge you around there."
Having a conversation like that, I turn my gaze toward the monitor.
I don't know what kind of system it is, but every time Lynn operates the button on the remote at high speed, separate footage is shown on the monitor.
Video of the play, or the one you call an official delivery point of view. There is often a "God's Perspective" for live use in multiplayer game competitions, not just FPS.
The role of being a different team or shifting the player's perspective to boost the audience watching the game.
It's no longer a classic, but that's all I thought about. I went to one question.
"Hey, Lynn."
"What?"
"What WLO, wasn't it the first game you could ever play live?
Yes, WLO, WorldLive ‐ ONLINE should have been the world's first live VR game ever released.
But if Lynn's words are correct, it would mean that the live perspective of this official tournament was "delivered".
What is the world's first live deliverable VR game......? To my question like that, Lynn had an unexpected look on her face.
"I can't believe Nana realized that..."
"Whoa, this is ridiculous, isn't it?
"Sort of."
"Grunt......!
"Just kidding. You don't have to know, but I'll explain it to you."
That's what Lynn said and operated the remote, leaving one screen to power down all the monitors.
"First of all, from the answer, WLO is the world's first full-dive VR game that allows the average player to deliver live."
"The average player... does that mean it's not an operation or something?
"That's right. So WLO's complaining is right in a way and wrong in a way. Nana's questions are never out of context."
Joshi Joshi and I are stroked in the head and my eyes are narrowed unexpectedly.
As she was left to be stroked for a while, Lynn regained her mind and continued the conversation.
"Let's go back a little bit and talk. Harmonia was originally developed by the company to fly awareness into virtual spaces online. Soon after the development, it spread as a technology that anyone could use if they paid a patent fee."
"You may have heard the name Harmonia..."
"Could it have been about before I went to middle school? About that time, Nana and I used to go out as testers. Look, then I was stirred up by a light fire, and you trained at a sports facility, right?
"Mm-hmm... oh, sure, that could have happened"
Sure, Lynn's right, I remember doing a full dive tester around that time.
Anyway, it was hard and stressful for me, but Lynn felt like her motor tone deafness was catastrophic or she couldn't stand up properly in the first place, and Toka laughed at me as much as she wanted when she was clever.
Was that regrettable, although I tried to train at a sports facility, Lin still couldn't exercise and didn't do much good.
It was fun though because I was in the mood for a date with Lynn.
"As a matter of fact, Harmonia has also developed game delivery capabilities since just after the establishment of full dive technology into virtual space. And every game implemented its own functionality. Then why wasn't the delivery popular to the public, you know?
"Hmmm... you needed some up-to-date equipment or something, and that's what you couldn't have prepared, right?
"Oh... it almost fits. What's the matter, Nana, did you eat anything weird? I wonder if it's snowing."
"Lynn, you're terrible!
"Heh heh heh"
I answered because I was serious!
As I inflated my cheeks that way, I was stuck and shriveled.
What a mess......
"Well, Nana's right, it was very costly at the time to use this delivery feature. That's how many hundreds of millions of dollars will fly into the introduction."
"Billion Units......!? Isn't that how much Lynn can get out with Pong?
I wouldn't be surprised if it would be more than a hundred million dollars worth of gaming equipment on a boulder, but from Blah Blah Blah Lin's assets, that should be the amount you can pay for it.
That would be about the price of a room in this apartment.
"Yeah, well, it's a lot of money. Because so am I, and there are quite a few rich people in the world. Who could have bought billion-unit equipment if they wanted to? But, you know, the equipment didn't come out in general."
"You mean you couldn't buy it even if you wanted to?
"That sort of thing. Harmonia only sold the equipment to companies developing the game, and as a result, none of the games were delivered outside of the official events involved. By the way, only recording equipment is sold to the public, and this one's pretty gutsy."
"Well, that's a lot of videos I've been trying to see."
Before she came to this room, Lynn said she had a play video and an official distribution.
I guess that playing video was more recorded using so-called "gut-spreading equipment".
"I'm not sure how delivery works, but didn't it used to feel like if I could record it, I could deliver it?
"All I can say is that it's a full dive game there. Honestly, full dive technology is so over-technology, only Harmonia understands how it works properly, right? There are too many black boxes to understand in the first place."
"I wonder what the latest technology is like"
"I've never met a developer, but you're definitely a crazy person. Incidentally, Harmonia has also been involved in the development of WLO, creating a new system that can be delivered to players without equipment. The truth is, I'm not sure if I brought it up now that I've been able to do it for a long time, or if it's a new development."
"Ho ho."
"I don't respond appropriately because I'm tired of it."
"Eh, heh, heh"
Did you find out it was the raw reply, Munimuni and I get pulled on the cheek?
Anyway, I found out WLO wasn't lying about being "the first in the world". That's the part I wanted to hear, so whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You should check the internet.
"Harmonia has been eyeing me since I was a small company... and I've been making so much money because of you."
I was quite surprised on the inside by Lynn, who rarely talks about making money.
Since Lynn put in place a mechanism to increase her assets when she was a little girl, she should have done very little work-like work, except for the game project.
Of course, I can't deny the possibility that you did that kind of work during the six years I wasn't there, but I can almost assure you that's not true.
Lynn stopped making money actively because it was for a group of hawkers who weren't any other.
In short, I stopped making money to reduce Toki's hard work because Mr. Toki was afraid of Lin's jumping out business talent and Lin was aware of it.
The point is, it's the same thing that stopped me from "touching things" to avoid hurting my parents. Lynn stopped earning money because she was reluctant to make money with Mr. Toki.
Technically, he had enough assets to play at that point for the rest of his life, so he was glad he didn't make any more money in the first place, though.
"Isn't Lynn's mess really a hell of an amount of money?
"I made enough money to make the prize money for the game look ridiculous. I think about 30% of the assets we have are sole relationships."
"I don't know what to do."
Thirty percent of Lynn's assets, maybe at least billions or tens of billions, should be that kind of unit of money.
On the contrary, I guess that means that Harmonia made more money than that. I'm not that interested in money, but it was quite an exciting story just because the amount in motion was the amount.
"Look, it's time to see it."
"Yes. That, too, Lynn?
"Yeah. You can ask me if there's anything I don't know because I'm looking next door. I mean, Nana, even now, but you can see all those monitors, right?
"Now Yu. Oh, but when I ask you a question, I want you to stop the screen."
"Copy that. Shall we just watch it in half distribution, half video"
"Ugh, no."
"Nana, you use the sole every once in a while."
Lynn manipulates the remote with a strange look on my response.
Then, instead of the screen, there was a crisp noise from the ground, and suddenly a duvet glowing in seven colors was ejected from an empty hole in the floor.
I'll pick it up somehow and grip it a few times. Pretty soft for appearance. How is this glowing?
"... what is this?
It's a gaming duvet.
"Why the futon?
"We talked about chairs, sofas, seats, or futons, and I decided to take a seat in the HEROES survey."
"... a lot of members of HEROES are a little weird."
"Nana, I won't tell you that. I promise."
Mei is scolded and sits in a duvet glowing in seven colors in an indescribable mood.
While I was feeling strangely subtle about the comfortable seating futon, I focused my consciousness on the screen that the play video showed.