"Why is the virtual reality era the final era?"
Little X was puzzled. "What's the difference between this and the VR era in Ready Player One?"
"The difference is huge. It's like the difference between a bicycle and a spaceship."
Chen Chen smiled and explained, "The virtual reality era refers to the creation of a true virtual reality world. That world will become the legal second world for mankind. At the same time, a companion hibernation chamber will be developed, even with a time flow rate of more than 1: 10. It can even accommodate the consciousness of the dead, allowing them to live forever in the virtual reality world.
"In the virtual world, everyone will have a perfect appearance, a luxurious life, and extremely low prices. If you want, you can even have your own virtual family, such as a perfect wife — and she will have her own will. Apart from not having a physical body in the real world, she will have all the human nature of a real human..."
Chen Chen described the world as he walked. "If you don't want to communicate with others, you can soar alone in the multiverse of the virtual world. The multiverse is endless, completely randomly generated by the supercomputer. The materials in it can be exchanged for a considerable amount of wealth, but it can also be nothing.
"If you like to socialize, you can meet countless like-minded friends in the virtual world. You only need to send out one invitation every day. As long as the other party agrees, a spacetime portal will be generated. From there, hundreds of friends can be invited to a dinner party of your own design, where they can party and discuss together.
"At the same time, the virtual world and real world currency will be fully circulated. Those who are depressed in the real world can go on a voyage in the virtual world. There are countless resources to be obtained there, and there's the possibility of getting rich overnight, although the probability is infinitely close to zero.
"The most important thing is..."
Chen Chen thought for a moment. "The virtual world will be completely objective and equal. Even if you're facing a billionaire, you can still speak with confidence. There's no discrimination, no pain, no hunger, and no death. You can become what you'd never be in the real world, even if you're penniless in the real world and can only survive on subsistence."
"I get it, this is a good way to divert the conflict in the real world."
Hearing this, Little X immediately smirked. "If this virtual reality is truly born, the conflict between social classes will be greatly alleviated. When the cost of living in the virtual world becomes very cheap, the gap between the rich and the poor will still exist, but it's meaningless."
"Yes."
Chen Chen nodded. "Moreover, in virtual reality, everyone can obtain free access to basic education and even higher education. All knowledge is freely available. Some people want to enjoy life in the virtual world while others are willing to struggle in the real world. All of this is completely voluntary. Of course, there are many ordinary people who will choose to split their careers. They work during the day and lie in the hibernation chamber at night. It's a tenfold increase in the virtual world."
"But … if the virtual world is so wonderful, the capitalists might raise the threshold. When that time comes, entering the virtual world itself will become a luxury. That won't be good."
"Is that even possible? I won't allow it. "
Chen Chen sneered. "I know it's difficult to achieve all of this. After all, as long as there are people managing it, it's difficult to achieve true equality. This stems from the natural distrust that we humans have toward others. In this case, I want the virtual world to be in my hands because only I can trust myself."
"…"
Little X could not help but roll her eyes. This was simply the logic of a bandit. You can trust yourself, but others will not trust you...
"Therefore, there will only be one virtual world in the world and that is the virtual world created by Blacklight Biotechnology!"
Chen Chen continued. "As long as the technology reaches a certain level, we can make the virtual world extremely affordable. For example, a luxurious hibernation chamber only costs the price of a laptop and the nutrient solution we develop only costs a few cents. Even so, a single tube can sustain a person's energy supply for an entire day. With this, a person's annual expenses can be reduced to just a few hundred dollars. Furthermore, they can enjoy all kinds of delicacies in the virtual world without leaving their homes."
At this point, Chen Chen could not help but sigh. "Of course, when all of this is achieved, there are basically only four types of occupations in the world — scientific research, artistic creation, and businessmen. The last one is the extremely simplified political system. The other occupations that require labor have already been taken over by intelligent robots.
"Therefore, the premise of the virtual reality era is the achievement of the first three sub-eras. Only then can the social supply and demand relationship withstand the impact of the virtual world. Otherwise, if the order is reversed, not only will it not be able to push society forward, but it will also lead to a violent backlash, even leading to the collapse of the social structure!"
At this point, Chen Chen had already walked out of the factory. Outside the factory gate, Cheng Cao had been waiting for a long time.
"Boss!"
When he saw Chen Chen coming out, Cheng Cao hurriedly got out of the car to greet him.
Chen Chen nodded and got into the car with Little X.
Cheng Cao gave the little girl in front of him a strange look but did not say anything. He got into the car without a word and drove toward the Eco Science City.
"Go straight to the Spire Experimental Base."
Chen Chen instructed, then closed his eyes to rest in the backseat.
An hour later, Chen Chen arrived at one of the electronics laboratories in the Spire Experimental Base.
When he arrived, Chen Chen inserted the USB drive and downloaded the movie Ready Player One.
Chen Chen could not help but feel emotional as he watched the movie.
"Back then, I extracted you from this movie."
Chen Chen told Little X, "Back then, you were just an intelligent program. But who would have thought that in just a few years, not only did you upgrade from a weak artificial intelligence to a strong artificial intelligence, but you also became a real intelligent life.
"Now, I'm worlds apart from when I was just born!"
Little X nodded solemnly, acting like a little adult.
"Back then, I relied on a piece of code in this movie to make a name for myself. Now, after many twists and turns, I've come back to where I started. I have to say, sometimes, reality can be so wonderful..."
Chen Chen sighed, then opened the movie, directly advancing the progress bar to the middle section. Instantly, a huge device that looked like a hemispherical throne appeared on the screen.
OAR9400 Haptic Shock Chair!
Unlike the VR eyes used by the poor protagonist in the movie, this was a truly luxurious piece of equipment. In reality, one only needed to sit on this haptic shock chair to control every movement of the character in the game using their brain waves.
Not only that, but the haptic shock chair was also equipped with mature holographic projection technology. Once it was activated, an arc-shaped virtual screen would automatically appear in front of the user. It was almost identical to reality, completely abandoning low-end equipment such as VR glasses.
As long as one sat on the haptic shock chair and put on the X1 tactile suit, one could truly feel every touch of the virtual character in the game, immersing themselves in the game.
Seeing this, Chen Chen did not hesitate anymore. He reached out, put his entire arm in, and pulled hard.
"Kaboom!"
In an instant, the huge OAR9400 haptic shock chair was brought into reality by Chen Chen.
This haptic shock chair was about two meters tall and was shaped like an egg. However, there was a missing piece, and the missing piece was where a person would sit.
However, just like the VR glasses of the past, the haptic shock chair was just a computer with more advanced technology that could play super 3A games. This machine was actually only responsible for the operation of the terminal, and the main code of the game "Oasis" was in the server.
Even so, Chen Chen was not trying to obtain the code of Oasis. If he wanted to design a VR game, it could be easily done with the current Little X. All he needed to do was hire a group of designers and planners to design the general framework of the game. The rest was left to Little X's computing power, which could churn out billions of lines of code in a single night.
After all, even the Windows system only had 50 million lines of code.
What Chen Chen needed to do was to extract these pieces of equipment, borrow (copy) them, and finally design the equipment ready for the market.
In reality, VR equipment was already in its nth generation, but even so, it could not escape the combination of a lens and a screen. The omnidirectional image was projected onto the user's retina through the principle of projection, forming a omnidirectional visual effect that made the user feel infinitely closer to reality.
Of course, most of these devices were not good for the eyes and could easily cause dizziness. There was still no mature technology to this day.
However, if it was replaced with a haptic shock chair, it would be a different story. This OAR9400 haptic shock chair could directly form a holographic projection in front of the player, just like the silver Rubik's Cube that Chen Chen obtained from the Alien dimension. It could directly change the optics of the surrounding space, projecting three-dimensional images into the air. This way, there would be no need to worry about dizziness.
Moreover, what Chen Chen valued more was the brainwave control technology. As long as the player sat on the OAR9400 haptic shock chair, the chair could capture the brainwave activity of the player and directly control the activities of the character in the game.
The only drawback was that this brainwave control lacked feedback.
Therefore, if the characters in the movie wanted a higher quality gaming experience, they must wear a piece of equipment called the X1 Tactile Suit.
This equipment was like a set of tights. After wearing it, it would stick tightly to the player's body. All the tactile sensations in the game could be fed back to the player through faint electric stimulation. This way, the level of immersion in the game would be higher.
At this point, out of the five senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, the game had satisfied three of them. It only lacked taste and smell.
However, in Chen Chen's opinion, although the immersion of the game Oasis was extremely high, it was still a long way from true virtual reality.
If the five senses were to be graded, the visual fidelity created by the haptic shock chair was about fifty percent, the auditory fidelity was only seventy percent, and the tactile sensation was even more crude. The tactile sensation created by the electric shock was only ten to twenty percent realistic. It was not as delicate as the tactile sensation of the real human body at all, and the sense of taste and smell were non-existent.
However, if Chen Chen released the first batch of VR equipment, this haptic shock chair would be too advanced.
After all, this haptic shock chair had a complete commercial brainwave control technology. In reality, the closest thing to brainwave control was Neuralink's Project Link, which was the lace electrode project.
On 29 August 2020, Neuralink released a press conference for the V0.9 version of the lace electrode. At the press conference, he used a piglet implanted with electrodes to demonstrate the results of his company during this period. It seemed impressive, but after peeling away the fancy details, the actual results were disappointing to the people of the scientific and technological world.
This was because there was nothing new or unexpected in his technology, especially in the aspect of neural signal decoding that everyone was most concerned about. There was no progress at all, only a simple demonstration of the relationship between the movement of the piglet's limbs and the nerve discharge in the brain. There was still a long way to go before mature human-computer interaction.
In the following few years, there was not much improvement in this technology until this year, when Chen Chen combined the lace electrode technology with the God chip to further develop this technology and create Project Xingtian.
"Back then, the brain-control technology of Xing Tian's bionic prosthetics shocked the entire world. It could be considered a warm-up. Since that's the case, it wouldn't be too abrupt to release the brain-control technology with this VR product."
Chen Chen said to Little X, "However, I still have to make some improvements. I can't bring out a technology that's too mature in the first place. But holographic projection technology has been greatly developed in recent years. Although it's shocking that I'm bringing out this mature holographic projection technology, it's not unacceptable."
"Then, how should I make improvements?"
Little X was puzzled.
"This brain-control technology can only be used to control a computer, such as moving the cursor, typing with a virtual keyboard, playing 3A games, and so on."
Chen Chen said, "However, it can't be used to play extremely complex games like Oasis. This is a nerf."
"So that's how it is..."
Little X suddenly came to a realization. "Even so, once it's released, it'll definitely cause an uproar."
"Since North America has their eyes on me, they'll make a move sooner or later, so there's no need for us to keep a low profile."
Chen Chen nodded and directly deleted the damaged movie file. Then, he copied a copy of the movie on the computer and pasted it into the USB drive. He opened it again and dragged it to the image of the X1 tactile suit that appeared on the screen.
"As for this tactile suit, under the concealment of the brain-control technology and holographic projection technology, it's not that amazing."
With that, Chen Chen reached out and extracted the silver tights. "Very good. Holographic projection technology, a weakened version of the brain-control technology, and electric stimulation tactile technology. This is the VR technology we're going to release next... This time, I want Blacklight Biotechnology to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat!"
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