Soon, it was the 10th of September. This was the day of the launch of Blacklight Biotechnology's first electronic product targeted at the general public — the V.1 virtual reality series.
Early in the morning, the physical stores of major retailers around the world were already crowded. Thousands of people lined up in long lines, waiting for the stores to open for business. This was because the V.1 series would be sold in these business halls. This type of retail was the best choice for those who did not want to wait for online mail order.
Of course, when most people saw the long lines, they would rather choose the more comfortable online shopping service. Although it would take longer for the goods to arrive, at least they would not have to wait for hours in line.
There were at least millions of people waiting in front of their computers. There should have been more potential users, but the price of the V.1 virtual reality series had deterred most people from buying it. In Mainland China, the cheapest V.1 tactile suit would cost 4500 yuan.
However, this suit was only a support after all. Without the V.1 haptic shock helmet or haptic shock chair, it could be said to be useless. The price of a helmet would cost at least 13000 yuan and the haptic shock chair would cost more than 60,000 yuan.
Most importantly, these products were not as necessary as mobile phones or cars, so there were not many people who were willing to buy it immediately. Most people were still waiting to see what was going on.
Even so, as the world's first batch of equipment with brainwave control technology, the first batch of orders still reached 3.3 million units of the haptic shock helmet, two million units of the V.1 tactile suit, and 800,000 units of the haptic shock chair.
As for the most expensive HP …
The 3D simulator had also received five thousand orders.
Based on the calculation that the cost was half the price, Chen Chen had reaped nearly ten billion U.S. dollars in the first wave.
Moreover, when the first batch of the V.1 series entered millions of households, it would become a trend of the era just like the popularization of computers and mobile phones. This trend was irresistible.
It could be said that the VR market had been completely dominated by Blacklight Biotechnology. After more than a decade of VR competition, Blacklight Biotechnology quickly unified the market in a crushing manner, bringing VR equipment into a new era in advance — the era of brainwave manipulation.
As for North America and Europe, in order to suddenly arrest Chen Chen in December, it could be said that at this time, there were no restrictions on Blacklight Biotechnology's products at all. Whether it was quality inspection or tariffs, they were all green-lit. They even began to pretend to send out negotiation teams to contact the Blacklight Biotechnology team to discuss the purchase of the brainwave manipulation technology.
Blacklight Biotechnology naturally feigned civility and pretended not to know what the other party was thinking.
Therefore, in this seemingly harmonious atmosphere, the first batch of products was sold successfully, and the buyers who got the goods began to try this unprecedented black technology product with joy.
Central Continent, Shangdu City.
Two young men who had just been promoted to freshmen walked out of a VR physical store, sweating profusely. At the same time, each of them was holding two cardboard boxes in their hands. These two cardboard boxes were square and flat. The two of them walked quickly toward the parking lot with the cardboard boxes in their arms, a look of relief on their faces at the same time.
"Not bad, Zhang Wei. There are only three hundred units in the city offline and you can get your hands on them."
One of the handsome young men said happily, "I thought it was over for today."
"Hehe."
The other tall and thin young man heard this and his nostrils were about to rise to the sky. A trace of mockery flashed in his eyes. "Yang Jian, you don't know this, but when the owner of this physical store was living on the streets and had no money to eat, it was my father who saved him."
As he said this, a trace of reminiscence flashed in the tall and thin young man's eyes. "More than ten years ago, my father gave him two pancakes. He ate one, tore the other in half and gave half to my father. He said that when he became rich in the future, as long as my father's descendants came to him with this half of the pancake, he would do something for my father's descendants."
"So when this store said it was out of stock, you took out half of the pancake?"
The handsome young man was surprised. "Isn't this too much of a waste of a favor?"
"No, that half of the pancake has long gone bad. I fed it to the dog."
The tall and thin young man sneered. "The reason why he sold it to me was because he still didn't get rich later. So my father invested a few million in him and let him open this electronics store."
"..."
The two came to the parking lot as they talked. After putting the two cardboard boxes into the trunk, they drove back to campus.
Half an hour later, the car returned to Shangdu Jiao Tong University. The two happily ran to the door of Dormitory 404 with the cardboard boxes. The tall and thin young man originally wanted to use his body to smash open the dormitory door directly, but there was only a loud bang. The dormitory door did not budge at all!
"Aiya!"
The tall and thin young man fell to the ground from the recoil. Even so, he still held the two cardboard boxes firmly in his hands.
"F * ck, what are you doing? Where are the people inside? Hurry up and open the door for me!"
The tall and thin young man suddenly cursed.
"Secret code!"
A loud voice came from the door of Dormitory 404.
"Secret code my ass, hurry up and open the door!"
The handsome young man also came over and frowned.
"No, you must say the secret code. If you don't say it, I won't let you in!"
The person inside the door did not give up. "Start from here!"
In desperation, the handsome young man looked around. When he saw that no one was paying attention to him, he lowered his voice and said, "I'm from Dachang City, No. 7 High School..."
"No strength, again!"
"I can't hear you!"
Two people suddenly shouted from inside the door. Their voices went straight through the door.
The handsome young man had to raise his voice. "Dachang City, No. 7 High School student, Celestial Lord Yang Jian!"
"Very energetic, next!"
The person inside the door continued to shout.
"Dachang City, No. 7 High School student, your grandfather Zhang Wei!"
The tall and thin young man on the side scolded, "Hurry up and open the door!"
"You want to drive a warship with such a low voice?!"
"Our dormitory big brother said he can't hear you, so he can't hear you!"
The person inside the door continued to shout.
"That's enough."
The handsome young man urged again and pushed hard. Finally, the dormitory door was pushed open. The two people inside the dormitory quickly hid in the toilet and locked the toilet door.
"Where's the mop? I'm going to block the toilet door and suffocate the two of them."
The expert young man cursed.
"Then you take your time to find it. I'm going to turn it on first."
The handsome young man did not care about this and directly began to open the box. He took out a helmet and a black jumpsuit.
"F * ck, you guys really bought it?"
The toilet door opened a gap. When the two people inside saw the handsome young man begin to open the box, they immediately said in surprise, "Two tycoon brothers, please accept our little brother's bow!"
"Shoo, shoo, shoo. You didn't let us in just now, and now you're a big brother?"
The tall and thin young man made a gesture to drive them away.
"Brother Wei, don't be like this. We were just joking just now … You guys must lend it to us to play. We also want to try the visual shock helmet..."
"Brother Wei, can I go to your house for Chinese New Year? Brother Wei, can you order takeout for me? "
The two roommates had been joking shamelessly by the side.
Ignoring these clowns, the handsome young man took out the helmet from the box. The helmet was dark gray in color and had a streamlined structure. Although it was a full plastic shell, the finger oil control was very good. It would not leave a handprint on it like many plastic items.
The interior of the helmet was also very in line with the human body structure, especially the internal sponge pads that were removable. Moreover, there was an outlet fan in the front, back, left, and right of the helmet. This allowed the air inside the helmet to circulate and prevent the wearer's senses from being affected when wearing the helmet in summer. It was very humane.
The handsome young man then found the manual and read it silently. After he understood everything, he connected the power cable to the computer and pressed the power button on the helmet.
According to the manual, if the first boot was not connected to the power source, it would not be able to boot.
Sure enough, after connecting the power source, the helmet was completely turned on.
At the same time, the computer began to automatically install the driver for the visual shock helmet. After the installation was completed and full computer access was granted, the helmet was officially activated.
The handsome young man excitedly turned it on and leaned against the headboard. Then, he put on the helmet. Suddenly, his vision went black at first, then quickly brightened. His entire vision was completely occupied by the three-dimensional image projected by the VR of the helmet.
From the perspective of the handsome young man, he only saw the logo of Blacklight Biotechnology flashing across, and then a huge and empty room appeared in front of him.
This room was about fifty square meters, and he could see the end of the room at a glance. In the center of the room, a small red ball was quietly parked there.
This feeling was very strange. It was as if he was standing in this room at this time, and the angle of the image he saw was almost the same as the line of sight of his eyes, reaching one hundred and eighty degrees. If he moved his eyes, he could even see the side of the room, very natural.
"Hello, dear user, I'm Little X. Please follow my instructions to set up the user options. Now, please stare at the red ball in the room and imagine the ball moving according to your thoughts."
A crisp notification sounded in his ears. The handsome young man knew that this Little X was equivalent to Microsoft's Little Na, the voice of a new operating system.
However, this was the teaching part, so the handsome young man tried to move the small ball with his own imagination. Suddenly, the red ball moved slightly and rolled dozens of centimeters toward his position.
"Hmm?"
Although he knew that it was controlled by his thoughts, when the small ball in front of him really moved according to his thoughts, the handsome young man still felt an indescribable sense of wonder.
After all, he did not have hardware such as a mouse at this time. He was completely relying on his thoughts. Could this intangible thing really control this helmet?
An indescribable sense of excitement and novelty hit him. The handsome young man continued to operate according to the other party's instructions. Finally, after everything was set up, his helmet was completely connected to the computer.
The handsome young man knew that the positioning of this helmet was actually a third-party computer input device like a watch keyboard. The only difference was that compared to the first two devices, the role of the visual impact helmet was to directly use brainwaves to control the computer, freeing up one's hands.
This way, whether it was typing or operating, it was much faster. It was even the same when playing various games. All the operations only required a thought.
This was not a big deal. The handsome young man quickly familiarized himself with everything. After learning to use the visual impact helmet, even surfing the Internet was a lot easier than before.
Of course, the real purpose of most people buying this type of equipment, in addition to the novelty, was more for the VR games promised by Blacklight Biotechnology. After all, experiencing a game was like experiencing another life, and online gaming also filled people with fantasies about devices such as the visual impact helmet.
It could be said that the VR helmet could sell so well, one-third of it was because of the gimmick of brainwave control and two-thirds of it was because of online gaming.
Therefore, after the handsome young man eagerly familiarized himself with the operation, he relied on his imagination to open the store application software that came with the helmet system in the lower right corner. It was like an Apple app.
The V.1 visual impact series also had its own independent application platform. After opening the platform, he found the game software menu with just a glance.
With a thought, the game menu was suddenly opened and a row of games automatically came into view. Angel Statue, Great Swordsman, King of Thieves, and so on. There was everything from simple first-person shooting FPS games to real-time strategy RTS games. Although there were not many of them, only a dozen or so, these games made the handsome young man's heart skip a beat.
This was because he had not heard of any of these games...
He randomly clicked on a game and saw the introduction on it:
['Angel Statue', a first-person design game. Game level: 3A. Game introduction: Late at night in the year 2045, all humans suddenly lost their consciousness at the same time, as if they were being controlled by an unknown existence. They turned into living dead, and Phoenix is the only survivor in the world. All he has to do is break through the endless terror and investigate the truth behind the extinction of human civilization …]
After recalling for a while, the handsome young man suddenly had an idea. He took off his helmet and asked the tall and skinny young man who was also wearing a helmet on the bed next to him, "Impotence, you've played more games than me. Have you heard of a standalone game called 'Angel Statue'?"
In less than two seconds, the tall and thin young man replied, "No, but have you forgotten? Blacklight Biotechnology promised to design more than a dozen 3A masterpieces for us. Otherwise, why would we buy this? Now it seems that these games are the 3A masterpieces they promised. "
"I see. In that case, I'll add them all to the download list."
The handsome young man nodded and then put on the helmet again.
This similar scene appeared in every corner of the world. With the first batch of V.1 devices entering millions of households, Blacklight Biotechnology's influence in the electronics industry was also officially beginning to show signs.
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