Global monopoly of technology

"How much do you want?" Luo Sheng looked at Gao Hua and asked directly.

"40 billion yuan," Gao Hua replied.

Luo Sheng thought roughly, 40 billion RMB is about 6 billion US dollars, and then he said: "Then you have to play me in the second half of the year. I will grant you 100 billion. This year you should not bother me about money matters. , Is it enough? Not enough to add more?"

Gao Hua immediately responded with a big smile: "Enough is enough, it must be enough, maybe there is a balance."

Yao Jianhong complained on the spot: "Listen to your tone, isn't it worth the pride? When will you take out the prototype to be proud again."

Gao Hua: "Uh...oh...it really crushes people at the senior level. I want to bring it to you now even more than you."

Luo Sheng dared to throw money so unhesitatingly, and he assured the project department to allocate funds because he knew that the money was indeed used in research and development, and he did not greet ink into his personal pockets.

The company has an account book, and Luo Sheng himself has another small book that only he knows, that is, Xiaona will track the whereabouts of every fund.

It is impossible for Luo Sheng to know all the side matters of the company, as long as it is a normal and reasonable operation, he basically doesn't know, unless he takes the initiative to look up the files with Xiaona, because he doesn't need to know it.

But as long as there is an abnormal situation, Xiaona will report to him separately, as long as these things happen, he knows everything.

Without the existence of Xiaona, the "Night-walking Jinyiwei", Luo Sheng would never be so relaxed and relieved as he is now.

The plate is so big that all the companies have more than two million employees worldwide, which surpasses those of the Wal-Mart Group. It is impossible for everyone to be clean. This is unrealistic. Over the years, some of its departments have been more or less. There were all criminals, and middle-level managers who misappropriated public funds for personal gains, all were sent in without exception.

On the contrary, the loss is secondary, even insignificant. What he really cannot accept is being kept in the dark by the people below.

Luo Sheng looked at Yao Jianhong and said: “Musk is also engaged in minimally invasive brain-computer interface technology, and another technology giant Google is also launching a challenge in this field. Everyone can see that the competition for this type of technology is fighting for the future. Can't stop, we finally got seven or eight years ahead of them, and you were caught up with you as soon as you rested."

Yao Jianhong said concisely: "The problem is here, where is the future?"

Luo Sheng smiled and said: "The answer currently given is that the world’s major technology giants are all working on cutting-edge technology, and they all point the future of mankind to the virtual world created by computers. These years, humans have been opening up this virtual world. A series of technical reserves are carried out at the entrance of the channel."

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng pulled his fingers and enumerated one by one: "The ubiquitous artificial intelligence can provide the virtual world with the functional algorithms required for normal operation. In this field, the Côte d'Azur is far ahead and absolutely leading; Secondly, the blockchain technology with a new distributed architecture is a more efficient and safe hardware structure framework; and the 5G technology, which is already on the eve of large-scale commercial use, has further improved the efficiency of data exchange and transmission, which can meet the needs of larger-scale digital Interaction needs, this piece is already leading the world."

Luo Sheng couldn't help but laughed while leaning on the boss chair: "We have been waiting for Hua to be our strategic partner before this time. If they were allowed to come forward and wait for us, I would be uncomfortable and lose face."

It is worth mentioning that the most successful application of blockchain technology at present is various encrypted digital currencies, which have become the embryonic form of digital currencies in the future. Once digital currencies mature, it means that they can be built in the virtual world. Realistic economic system.

Luo Sheng withdrew his broken hand, and turned to look at them one after another and added: "As far as our company is concerned, the biggest problem is that one day the virtual world will take shape, and how should we gain access to this world? Entrance? To put it bluntly, what technical route does the hardware terminal take."

Technology giants are all looking for this entrance. At present, the industry provides two major solutions: one is the brain-computer interface that has emerged in recent years and is basically in concept, and the other is virtual reality, which is very popular. These two solutions Both are regarded as the entrance to the virtual world.

It can be said that whoever masters the entrance to the virtual world will master the future.

The brain-computer interface that Musk wants to engage in is to take the "immersion" route. The so-called "immersion" simply means to make a hole in the human head, which is a bit of a Matrix, and the test results also prove this. A route is indeed feasible and technically feasible.

However, although Musk’s brain-computer interface technology is claimed to be "minimally invasive", it is inherently controversial in social ethics. Regardless of whether the craniotomy is performed or not, the resulting terminal will become an indispensable part of the human body. It will affect the physiological attributes of human beings, and even subvert the self-perception of individuals. This will bring about the question of "who am I", more difficulties in privacy protection, ambiguity in the determination of legal responsibility, and freedom of will Distorted manipulation and so on.

Although the brain-computer interface technology currently promoted by Musk is mainly used to help people with brain disabilities who are inconvenient in life, no one can guarantee that normal people will not be tempted by enhanced physical functions.

The rhythm of this well-painted cyberpunk precursor.

Google is betting on virtual reality, which is more humane than it, and there will be no ethical dilemma of "who am I", which can avoid a lot of unnecessary social risk disputes.

But the biggest problem with virtual reality is that it cannot achieve a truly immersive experience. This is the biggest reason why Luo Sheng gave up the development of virtual reality technology without hesitation.

The "Virtual Brain Machine" under the Cote d'Azur combines the advantages of the two. The non-invasive technology avoids the ethical dilemma of "Who am I". There is no need to punch a hole in the human brain, and future products can be smooth The launch will not suffer too much social resistance.

At the same time, it can bring a real immersive experience.

But the "virtual brain machine" also has its own pain points, that is, it is too difficult to do, and the technology is too difficult to do. The Blue Coast Laboratory has been dead for ten years, consuming sky-high R&D funds, and the budgetary expenditure has exceeded and exceeded. .

But once it is made, the competitiveness of the virtual brain machine is bound to be invincible. It can really hang Musk and Page to fight, and the previous efforts will inevitably bring unimaginable rich returns.

Once the virtual brain machine is commercialized, it is not an exaggeration to be able to build an economic system comparable to reality. In fact, its full-featured simulation system can achieve a high degree of realistic human-computer interaction that no terminal device can reach, making it sufficient It is widely used in games and entertainment, education, design, military simulation training, aerospace and so on.

"Virtual brains can do too many things, and they are also very valuable for military purposes, but they cannot be labeled with military products. This is not conducive to the promotion of products. This is a problem we should try our best to avoid." Luo Sheng Looking at the two of them, they said in an orderly way: "So, what should we position on the label as much as possible? The answer is to move closer to the game and entertainment, so we have to define it as the next-generation ACC game console."

Both Yao Jianhong and Gao Hua nodded in agreement. The advantage of this is to avoid some unnecessary controversy. As for some military organizations at home and abroad to buy in batches for simulation training, it doesn't matter to me.

Nowadays, the military uses game consoles as terminals to control drones and unmanned submersibles. In China, there are ACC consoles that are used by the military for military purposes. The United States also uses Microsoft's Xbox game consoles for military purposes.

Because game consoles are really easy to use. First, they don’t need additional funding from the military for research and development. These game technology companies have invested hundreds of millions of billions in research and development to improve performance. Second, there are few new generations of soldiers before joining the army. It’s easy to get started if you don’t play games.

The two major advantages can quickly form combat effectiveness and reduce military expenditures.

Luo Sheng muttered to himself: "I have to say hello to Lao Zhang later, and let him urge R star and other game production companies to quickly set up a project for the new game to land on the virtual brain. The development cycle will not be short. After the hardware is in place, products at the application level have to follow up."

This is necessary. Otherwise, when all your virtual brains come out, there is nothing in it, and there is no rich virtual content ecology. So what is the use of advanced iron cans?

Now we are not planning ahead, and we will have to wait for those developers to complete the content. What is wasted is a huge cost of time.

Luo Sheng has established in his mind that several major game works will be sold simultaneously with virtual brains in the future. The previous layout is now beginning to take effect. The international top third-party game developers under the Bluestar Technology Group have already accounted for half of the country.

This avoids getting stuck in the content ecology section.

The first is the CDPR company known as the "Polish dumb donkey". At present, the company is developing "Cyberpunk 2077". This work is one of the masterpieces that Luo Sheng has planned to land on the virtual brain.

Secondly, R star also has two masterpieces: "GTA6" and "Red Dead Redemption 2".

It is worth mentioning that "GTA5" was released in 2015, and it is still on the Steam bestseller list, and even some new works that have just been launched have been sold for three years. It’s a bit outrageous. Let R star developers lose the motivation to develop "GTA6". Why should this fan develop the constellation for a while? With this sales force, it seems that the sales of "GTA5" can continue to be sold for another three years.

In addition, Ubisoft’s "Assassin’s Creed" series has to urge them to establish a new virtual brain-computer port, including the holding Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, which also developed a virtual brain-computer port work and moved it over. A wave of nostalgic series in a new world of extraordinary appearance.

Although "World of Warcraft" is a phenomenal online game that is no longer the grand occasion of the year, the fans accumulated over the past ten years are extremely large. The revolutionary new technology and the feelings will definitely "cheat" many players. car.

Naturally, the "Resident Evil" series cannot be missed on the virtual brain-computer platform.

After listening to his requirements for the major game developers of Bluestar Technology, Yao Jianhong said: "For a brand-new platform, these developers may not respond positively. They are also afraid of overturning. The development of virtual brain-computer ports must be made into 3A. For high-quality goods, development costs will soar exponentially, and they may not dare to take this risk."

Luo Sheng calmly said: "The risk problem is nothing more than money, isn't it just a fear of blood loss and not recovering the cost? This is easy to handle, I will give subsidies, whether it is a subsidiary of Bluestar Technology, or an external third party development Shang, I get subsidies from the Riviera on this car, and the US$350 billion in cash reserves are put in a small vault to eat ashes? The above-mentioned works I named directly give his development costs to ensure that they make 100% money If you don’t lose money, you won’t believe what they refused."

Yao Jianhong spread his hands: "Well, I can't solve the problem without resolving money. With such a simple and unpretentious trick, I was speechless..."

Luo Sheng smiled. Even if 100% of the losses of all the above-mentioned works were paid by the Côte d’Azur, he would lose tens of billions of dollars. For the current Côte d’Azur, this amount of money is really tickling, even scratching. Itching doesn't count.

Third-party game developers: do you believe it?In fact, I refused at first, but Luo Sheng is really...

All in all, Luo Sheng’s purpose is simple. Through these long-famous game masterpieces that have accumulated a large number of fans as an attraction, he will try his best to "cheat" users in. Besides, quickly establish an ecosystem of the virtual world. Let the entire virtual community open to stay active.

Not to mention tens of billions of dollars, even if it is 50 billion or more, you have to invest at any cost. The virtual world, this is the ultimate evolution of the Internet.

After completing the establishment of the ecology of the virtual community, the company can really count money to the top of the world's top 500 in the future.

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