The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 114: Return the money that players have spent to the players!

“???” Xu Meng blinked, thinking she had seen it wrong.

He walked over quickly and patted Zhang Yang who was lost in thought: "Young Master Zhang?"

Zhang Yang came back to his senses and looked at Xu Meng in amazement: "Great inventor Xu!"

"?" This name made Xu Meng stunned for a moment, but she quickly shook her head and asked, "Didn't you book a flight for tomorrow? Why did you arrive today?"

"And...how did you know I would come here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he reacted and turned to look at his assistant Chen Mengling who had parked the car and hurried over.

"Just change the ticket." Zhang Yang said easily.

"Scientist Xu has come up with something so amazing. Even as a deliveryman, I have to deliver it as fast as I can."

"Good afternoon, senior!" The assistant greeted Zhang Yang, and then explained to Xu Meng, "Senior said that the things are ready in advance, so we wanted to give you a surprise."

"He was halfway there when you suddenly said you wanted to come back, so I sent him a message."

Xu Meng shook his head and did not ask about the sensory suit immediately. Instead, he looked at the car he was leaning against and asked:
"You didn't rent this car, did you? You drove this car last time as well?"

Zhang Yang looked back at the car and said, "Renting a car is so inconvenient. I bought it."

"When did you buy it?"

“When I was in college.”

"You...bought two cars in college?"

"Three cars."

Xu Meng's eyelids twitched: "I won't ask where you parked the cars when you were not in Ningzhou. I can't understand the lives of you rich people."

Zhang Yang immediately leaned back: "Stop talking nonsense, you are richer than me now, right?!"

He patted the box on the roof of the car and said, "Even if we don't talk about the game, just relying on this thing, you can become rich in a matter of minutes!"

After saying that, he very deliberately looked at Xu Meng's T-shirt, jeans and canvas shoes, which cost less than 200 yuan in total.

"I've never seen a billionaire as stingy as you!"

Xu Meng shook her head. The point of his words was not about money...

"Let's go back to the company first."

……

……

After entering the company, Xu Meng did not rush to check the somatosensory synchronization service, but ran to the planning department first.

"What problem did you encounter?"

Zhang Yang followed behind quietly, watching Xu Meng's operations.

Along the way, many employees noticed their former boss. Some were too embarrassed to know how to greet him and simply pretended not to notice him, while others just gritted their teeth and called him "Boss Zhang."

Zhang Yang shook his head repeatedly: "I am not your boss anymore."

This was exactly why he would rather wait in the parking lot than come up to find Xu Meng - it was really a bit embarrassing.

Lu Cong didn't have time to think about why his former boss showed up. As soon as he saw Xu Meng, he immediately started talking about the problems he encountered:
“We have somewhat conflicting issues.”

"Boss, you want us to improve the scene accuracy and make the images in VR more refined, and we are working towards this goal."

"But to achieve a true VR effect, you need to render the views seen by both eyes at the same time, and you also need additional pre-rendering to meet the user's drastic turning needs."

"And after the upgrade, the accuracy and special effects of the BOSS have also been greatly improved."

"These factors combined together put a great test on hardware performance."

"According to our estimates, there are basically no mobile phones on the market that can provide a normal experience."

As if he was worried that his boss would be unhappy, he added:

"In order to circumvent this problem, we chose a yoga studio in the design of the VR interactive scene and let Huo Huo guide players to do yoga."

"This allows the player's line of sight to always stay locked on Huo Huo, minimizing the player's sudden turn. Indoor details are also relatively limited, which can greatly reduce rendering requirements and barely support the mobile player experience."

Having said that, Xu Meng already fully understood the difficulties they were facing.

Xu Meng asked them to improve the accuracy, but improving the accuracy means increasing the hardware requirements.

"Lord of War" can ignore hardware requirements and improve precision crazily because the game has not been released yet and its main carrier is PC, which is the platform with the strongest hardware.

"Project Frost" won't work.

"Frost and Snow Project" still has a bunch of hungry mobile phone players waiting to be fed.

The chip performance and heat dissipation of the mobile phone cannot support overly exaggerated operations.

Previously, although the picture quality and special effects of [Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt] would be greatly reduced when playing on mobile phones, and the phone would get hot after a long time, it was at least playable.

But if the VR scene is not played according to Xu Meng's standards, it will be completely unplayable.

This is an inevitable problem for multi-terminal interoperable games.

This is not a question of how much money will be lost by giving up mobile phone users.

But if you dare to launch content that "abandons mobile users", then mobile users will smash their cups as a signal and rush to you immediately! You can't ask mobile players to buy a high-performance computer in order to experience new content, right?
So, what to do?
This is an absolute performance gap in hardware and cannot be solved by software optimization.

Unless you make a very passable VR scene.

But that would be putting the cart before the horse, and it would be better not to do it.

Behind Xu Meng, Zhang Yang and the young assistant also frowned, especially Zhang Yang, whose eyebrows were almost knotted.

——Obviously, he couldn't think of a suitable solution.

But Xu Meng only pondered for a moment and immediately made up his mind:

"It's still better to make it according to high standards! We must strive for perfection!"

"As for mobile phone users..."

"Since the company's money is given to us by players, it is only natural for us to give some back to the players!"

"Boss, what do you mean?" Lu Cong was puzzled.

"Cloud gaming!" Xu Meng said in a firm tone.

Zhang Yang, who knew what this meant, immediately widened his eyes.

His face is full of admiration!

——I didn’t expect that you, a miser who usually looks stingy, would be so imposing when spending money on games!

You don't treat money as money at all!
Lu Cong is a game planner. He doesn't have a deep understanding of cloud gaming technology, but he roughly knows what it means.

Hearing this, I can't help but feel a little worried: "Cloud gaming can indeed solve the hardware problem, but the server cost is very high, right? And the network requirements are also very high. If the network speed is not good, will the picture be delayed?"

“Server costs are indeed high, but only in the initial stage.”

Xu Meng comforted him, "As long as our [Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt] and subsequent competitive gameplay are attractive enough, more mobile phone users will choose to pay for cloud games, which will eventually help us break even."

"As for the image delay caused by the slow internet speed..."

At this point, Xu Meng couldn't help but laugh out loud:
"That's the players' own problem, not ours!"

"They can't complain that our game is too sophisticated just because their internet speed is poor, right?"

Lu Cong was then encouraged.

Since the boss is willing to use money to solve the problem, what else can they say?

Just do it and that's it.

When Xu Meng left the Planning Department, she felt relieved that the problem had been solved, but also felt the pressure of having one more job to do.

Now we are developing cloud games again.

We have to recruit people, hold meetings, develop, and negotiate new cooperation with cloud service providers...

Just thinking about it gives me a headache.

He really wants to split himself into three parts and take charge of three projects respectively.

——No, it’s four, and one for playing games and enjoying life.

But this is obviously unrealistic.

He returned to the general manager's office with Zhang Yang and the assistant to continue discussing the somatosensory synchronization service.

As if he wasn't busy enough, Xu Meng had just connected the somatosensory synchronization suit to the computer and updated the firmware. Before he had time to try it on, the front desk of the Jinghu office building called him again:
"Boss, the old policeman who came here yesterday brought two more people here. He said he wanted to try out the effects of the [War Simulator]."

"Bring another person? Who?" Xu Meng asked subconsciously.

"Um..." Xiaoqing, the receptionist, was a little worried on the other end of the phone. "He said that it's inconvenient to reveal his identity, so he can only tell you in person."

“???” Xu Meng had more question marks in his head.

But since he was brought here by the police, he is obviously an official and there is no need to worry that he is a bad person.

The core technology of [War Simulator] is not in the hardware, so there is nothing to worry about.

So he replied, "I see. Please tell Director Zu to help with the reception. If they want to play, let them play first. I'll be there soon."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Meng looked at Zhang Yang and sighed helplessly.

"It'll take a while. I have to go to Jinghu Lake."

"Okay, I can also test the overall effect on the simulator." Zhang Yang nodded and put away the somatosensory synchronization suit again.

Because of this mysterious person who suddenly appeared, the three of them hurried downstairs and got into the car before they could even sit down, and drove back to the Jinghu office building.

　6:10, burned out...

　　I'm asking for monthly tickets...

　　Thanks to [Tomi is chief] for the 500-point reward.

　　Thanks to [Niu'er] for the 500-point reward.

　　Thanks to [District 13, District 1, District 1 Leader] for the 100-point reward.

　　Thanks for the support!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)