When Elon finally made up his mind to contact Star Sky Technology, he realized that he was one step too late.
To his surprise, the first person to make a move was Zuckerberg, who he thought would stop Star Sky Technology's virtual reality technology from entering North America.
By the time his secretary reported this matter to him, this cunning old fox had already split his Facebook subsidiary, Ocus. He laid off more than 2,000 employees and only kept the core employees responsible for the main business. It seemed like he was ready to cut his losses and wait for Star Sky Technology to take over.
Prior to this, when Facebook announced its $2 billion acquisition of Ocus in 2014, it was widely believed that Facebook was paying for its future.
Needless to say, this kind of ending really made people sigh.
In fact, Zuckerberg was forced to do this.
Maybe if Ocus had enough time, they could gradually improve their head-mounted virtual reality technology. Maybe one day, they would be able to achieve immersive virtual reality.
However, when he saw that Star Sky Technology had already brought his dream technology to the product launch conference, he knew in his heart that he didn't have a chance to take it slow anymore.
Rather than letting Ocus fight an unwinnable battle with Facebook, it was more important for Zuckerberg to protect his core business.
He knew exactly what was important to Facebook, and what was just icing on the cake.
Zuckerberg's family business was huge, and he could afford to pay two billion USD. Over the years, Facebook had paid more than two billion USD in fines from various countries.
However, for other virtual reality startups in Silicon Valley, this was a nightmare. It was like they had just experienced spring in March, and they were already in winter. They didn't have any hope of surviving.
While the virtual reality startups in Silicon Valley were suffering, many smart people like Zuckerberg approached Star Sky Technology and began to negotiate a partnership.
If the trend was unstoppable, then going with the flow was undoubtedly the best way to go.
Most people couldn't see any other technology that could replace the Phantom system, or that could bypass the patent barriers set by Star Sky Technology. Therefore, working with Star Sky Technology was far less risky than trying to find another way to do it.
This situation is similar to when Microsoft used its graphical S system to dominate the PC market.
The only difference was that not only did Star Sky Technology have the world's first neural interface operating system based on virtual reality technology, but they were also the owner of the virtual reality technology patent …
It wasn't just the technology industry that was shocked, the global financial industry was also shocked.
While they were shocked by the advancement of virtual reality technology, almost all companies in the financial industry were evaluating the potential impact of this new technology.
Because Star Sky Technology was like most companies with good operating conditions, they didn't choose to go public. Therefore, they couldn't give a market valuation that met everyone's expectations.
However, according to the estimates of major financial companies on Wall Street, the virtual reality business alone was valued at more than $100 billion, and its future growth was difficult to estimate.
Also, this was a conservative estimate based on the lack of understanding of the specific business model.
If, like many people speculated, Star Sky Technology planned on using cloud computing as their main business, integrating the virtual reality network into one or more supercomputing centers, then promoting hard or soft payment programs …
This was worth more than $100 billion.
This wasn't something that money could measure …
Even though Star Sky Technology's product launch satisfied the curiosity of the general public to a certain extent, a product launch was obviously not enough for this technology that was going to revolutionize human society.
Many questions had yet to be answered. Reporters from all over the world wanted to interview Lu Zhou.
However, no matter how hard these reporters tried to sneak into Jin Ling University, they couldn't find Academician Lu at all.
During this period of time, he seemed to have disappeared, fading out of everyone's sight.
Only people who were close to him knew that he was on a retreat for a great project.
On the other hand, while the world was crazy about virtual reality technology, a paper published in Inventiones Mathematicae also caused a strong response from mathematicians around the world.
Through a clever mathematical method, the paper obtained a graded structure corresponding to the cohomology ring, which combined all cohomology theories into an abstract geometric object.
Everyone knew that cohomology theories studied the abstract meaning behind numbers.
It seemed like Lu Zhou, who had just solved Riemann's conjecture, wasn't satisfied with this two-century-old crown in mathematics. Instead, he gradually delved into the core field of algebraic geometry, which was to study the hidden geometric structure behind numbers.
This wasn't just a mathematician's pursuit, it had even risen to the level of philosophy and theology.
If he could succeed, there was no doubt that he would become the greatest scholar since the era of Archimedes.
If he wanted to find another person who could match up to him, he would have to wait for the long river of time to come.
In addition to this topical thesis, many people were more interested in the fact that the reviewer of this thesis was actually Perelman, who had retired from mathematics for many years.
This recluse, who once refused a million-dollar prize and publicly expressed his disappointment in the mathematics community, actually accepted an invitation to review for Inventiones Mathematicae?
This was unbelievable in the eyes of most scholars.
Anyone who knew Lu Zhou knew how much he "hated" the "arrogant" review model of academic journals. Almost every thesis was published on arXiv and communicated with young colleagues in the form of an open discussion.
He didn't even know that he had become a role model for "folk mathematicians" on arXiv.
Of course, even if all of them were surprised, they wouldn't be as surprised as Lu Zhou himself.
It wasn't because of his reviewer.
It was because on the third day after the thesis was published, Lu Zhou, who had just finished his retreat, came to his office. He was planning on going to the classroom to personally teach the undergraduate students. However, an unexpected person stood in front of his office door.
When Lu Zhou saw Perelman's expressionless face, he paused for a second and didn't speak for a while.
Perelman: "What?"
"… Nothing, I just didn't expect to see you." Lu Zhou coughed and said, "I think any mathematician in the world would be surprised to see Perelman standing in front of their house … Why didn't you send me an email? I could have asked someone to pick you up at the airport. "
"Isn't this a university?" Perelman frowned and looked at Lu Zhou strangely. He said, "Do I have to send an email in advance when I'm coming to a university to discuss academic issues?"
"Of course not, but I think it's necessary to visit a specific person … Of course, I don't care." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Can you satisfy my curiosity? What made you decide to leave your home? "
Perelman looked at Lu Zhou and spoke concisely.
"Mathematics.
"When I was studying your paper, I found something very interesting. When you abstracted cohomology theory into geometric objects, you mentioned the higher-dimensional analogue of Jacobian as a curve. I want to know why you did that."
Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "Actually, this isn't entirely my idea. I saw something similar in Professor Grothendieck's research manuscript on Weil's conjecture, so I was inspired."
"Can you teach me?"
Lu Zhou looked at the enthusiastic expression in Perelman's eyes. He paused for a second and smiled.
"I can … But I have a number theory class in a bit. I'm afraid I have to wait until four o 'clock to discuss this problem with you."
Perelman looked at Lu Zhou sincerely and spoke.
"It's okay, I can wait!"
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