Chapter 405: Chapter 389: Playing VR Games with Mirage?
Translator: 549690339
Just as Lincoln sat down in the office, he received an unexpected phone call.
The âmissing personâ Liang Tian suddenly contacted him.
Lincoln thought for a moment when this person last contacted him.
This was not because he didnât care about his employees. It was just that after Liang Tian had taken leave a month ago to return to his hometown and embark on his dream for the second time, he almost went off the grid.
It couldnât be helped, as going back to his hometown was his second startup in a sense, opening a game experience store for himself rather than a branch for Cloud Dream.
Naturally, there was no reason to report his work in Cloud Dreamâs office software.
âHello??â Lincoln answered the phone.
âBoss, Iâm sorry!â Liang Tian apologized as soon as he opened his mouth.
âHuh?â Lincoln was bewildered, âHow did you let me down?â
âMy game experience store is open now.â
âIsnât that a good thing?â Lincoln wondered, âCould it be that you think youâve realized your dream and donât want to come back to work?â
âNo, of course not.â Liang Tian quickly clarified, âIâm more than happy to work at Cloud Dream! I donât have any thoughts of leaving!â
âThen why are you apologizing?â
âMy experience store, the price of playing Mirage, is higher than the experience storeâs.â Liang Tianâs tone was filled with guilt.
âBecause there are various consoles in the store, ranging from portable consoles, arcade machines, home gaming consoles, VR to Mirage. It has been proven that the one-size-fits-all time charge during the trial operation is not feasible, and there are many disputes among customers.â
âBut if we charge separately for different consoles, there are too many devices in the store, occupying considerable space, and the operation pressure is enormous. Mirage has no choice but to charge more than the experience storeâs charge of 10 dollars an hour. Otherwise, the more outdated VR equipment wonât have the right to charge over 30 dollars an hour, not to mention the even more outdated game equipment compared to VR. The pricing disputes are too significant.â
âIn order to keep the store running, I had to set the price of Mirage at 45 dollars an hour.â
As the head of Cloud Dream Experience Store, Liang Tian was well aware that Lincolnâs intention to set such a surprisingly low price was to benefit more people.
But he couldnât bear the price, as the store wouldnât survive at that rate.
However, Lincoln comforted Liang Tian, âItâs your store, and you can decide on your own, no need to care about the Cloud Dream Experience Storeâs prices.â
He understood that the thing about morality and ideals is that it is meant to restrain oneself.
You cannot use it to restrain others; it is simply meddling and minding other peopleâs affairs.
So, he just took care of what he thought was right, without demanding others to be the same as him.
After all, he was also aware that he accidentally received a blessing, which gave him the right to be willful.
âDonât feel burdened, just keep going!â Lincoln comforted Liang Tian a few more words before hanging up the phone.
Meanwhile, he wanted to see if it was possible to play VR games in the virtual world.
And because of Liang Tianâs call, he couldnât help but think, âPerhaps we could move all those other game consoles into the virtual world?â
In this case, Liang Tianâs experience store only needs to install one kind of Mirage equipment, and customers can play games of all kinds.
The pricing issue will be resolved directly.
Of course, the impact of Liang Tianâs small store is just the smallest impact. The more critical effect lies in the fact that it seems like an opportunity to build a unified game platform across the country or even the whole world.
After all, to create a unified platform, the barriers between different devices need to be broken down first, right?
Cloud Dreamâs technology seems to be capable of doing this.
However, upon further thought, Lincoln found the challenge a bit too difficult â
If they were to replicate the hardware of handheld consoles, cell phones, computers, and home gaming consoles, not to mention VR devices, in the virtual world, it would not be challenging, and it could even be said to be simple.
But to have this hardware run gaming and software from the real world would be more difficult.
The Mirage 2.0 host uses hardware that is nothing more than mature products on the market and does not have performance that far exceeds its peers.
In terms of performance alone, itâs on par with the latest generation VR consoles from NetDragon, Flying Fox, and Wild Island.
Itâs just because the virtual worldâs construction technology is advanced enough, plus the playerâs brain is involved, that the Mirage seems to have no limits.
But Lincoln was well aware that the Mirage did have limits.
If you were to convert the entire Night City into a format supported by a VR console and let the most advanced Flying Dragon 3rd Generation download it, the VR equipmentâs console wouldnât be able to store it.
Even if you tried your best to upgrade the storage and cut down Night Cityâs details, it would be paralyzed instantly when running.
But when the positions are reversed, the gap is not so obvious â
Using Mirage to store the main body of âBlaze 3â can hold at most a few dozen copies, and if you really want to run it, itâs not even possible to run two instances at the same time.
Thatâs because Mirage needs to first simulate a VR gameâs runtime environment and then use the simulated âvirtual VR consoleâ to run the game.
Itâs a bit like building a computer in âMy Worldâ and then using that computer to play Snake. fÉŸeeweÉnŃłveÉ.com
The computational power required to do that is far greater than playing Snake directly on a computer.
This is why players in the virtual world must jump through personal panels to access the Internet and cannot find a computer in the game that connects directly to the external Internet.
As for working directly with game companies to develop games and even retool old games in the virtual world based on virtual environment construction technology so they can run without pressure,:
Lincoln gave up on the idea after just a brief thought.
Because this involves the underlying technology of virtual world construction, itâs very difficult!
â The few times Lincoln played games in the virtual world with Mavis, he would buy the game, hand it to Mavis to crack, and then she would reset it in the virtual world.
If he had to do it himself, he wouldnât want to waste the time.
Even now among Cloud Dream staff, maybe only Randall could do it, and it would take a lot of time.
Most Cloud Dream staff still use the simplified development tools provided by Lincoln.
Subsequent learning and improvement mostly revolve around these development tools, figuring out how to make them more efficient and easier to use.
So compared to teaching people how to start from scratch, learning the underlying technology, itâs quicker and simpler to develop a âvirtual environment upgrade versionâ of a game for them directly.
Moreover, if you have the energy, why not use it to cultivate your staff?
Of course, having said that, Lincoln was also someone who knew how to make do.
If the Deluxe version is not available for now, we can start with the Youth version (crossed out)!
If you canât run the game directly, just put the equipment aside and connect a wireless panel.
Then connect the Mirage and the equipment, and use the Mirage to control the console to play the game, isnât that enough?
In this way, the original equipment is still running the game, and Mirage just acts as an âinputâ and âoutput,â substituting the keyboard, controller, omnidirectional treadmill, and terminal display.
What is this?
This is cloud gaming!
The technical difficulty is greatly reduced!
Lincoln immediately began to ponder what hardware and software licenses this technology would require, and whether or not to obtain licenses and collaborate with console manufacturers or game companies.
He was genuinely interested in it.
But soon, Mavis interrupted his reverie, âMaster~ NetDragon has announced that the real machine is coming soon!â
âItâs coming at last.â Lincoln shook his head, thinking heâd first look at NetDragonâs moves.
As for using Mirage to play VR games?
He can practice with NetDragonâs equipment tomorrow!