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Chapter 1271 [The risk is a bit high, but the profit is high]

Not long after, at the flagship store, the consumers who lined up at the front to buy walked out of the store contentedly, holding the MIX they had purchased.

Some familiar scenes from the past also reappeared. Not long after the consumers who bought the MIX walked out of the store, some strangers came up to them and asked if they were willing to sell the MIX in their hands.

It turned out to be a scalper!

Many of the people queuing up to buy the product are scalpers. Ten days have passed since the product was launched, and it has also been fermenting for ten days.

Some scalpers smelled big business. In the past ten days, they did some background checks and calculations and found that even if they purchased this product at the domestic market price and then shipped it overseas, they could still make a lot of money.

The relative risk of this route is a bit high, but the profit is very high, as the saying goes, fortune and wealth are sought in danger.

Since the launch of the MIX product, it has been restricted by various foreign media. The popularity of discussions on MIX on the foreign network is completely incomparable to that in China, but it does not mean that any information cannot be transmitted.

In fact, some foreign electronic product enthusiasts know Xingyu Technology, a high-tech company from the East. They took the initiative to find out about the company’s recent launch of MIX.

The flow limit of external networks and foreign media mainly restricts the number of people who passively receive news, but people who actively seek to learn about it cannot be stopped.

Moreover, Stellaris is not completely without its own controlled channels for information dissemination. Among them, the game box platform is a very good promotional outlet. Although it is not a social media platform like Facebook and Reddit, it now has a very large user base and its influence should not be underestimated.

Currently, the number of registered players on the Game Box platform worldwide has exceeded 15 billion, of which nearly 9 million are players from countries around the world, including 1.1 million players in North America.

Now America also came to her senses and realized that this game box platform was not simple. She regretted having stepped in to obstruct it before.

When Qunxing Capital was aggressively carrying out mergers and acquisitions in this field, in addition to Fang Hong using some overt and covert means to promote this, another important factor was that Western capital, especially Youtai Capital, which controls media opinion, did not think the problem was very serious and believed that it could not be compared with the influence of social media platforms such as Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube.

Therefore, Qunxing completed this layout quite smoothly and was able to integrate quickly.

Unexpectedly, the game box platform was so successful that it expanded to 15 billion users in such a short period of time, becoming a super platform. And if the momentum continues, it is possible that the number of global player users will soar to 20 billion in three years.

That means that for every 2 gamers worldwide, 1 has an account on a game box platform.

Among the foreigners who currently know MIX, more than 55% of them learned about it through the game box platform, which is something many people did not expect.

Because the games recommended on the homepage of the game box recently, including some new and old games, use the immersive experience of the MIX terminal as a promotional point, allowing foreign players to indirectly know about the MIX terminal device through games.

What is even more surprising is that another 20% of people know about the MIX head-mounted display terminal and are interested in it. They are foreign gentlemen!
The detonating point was the currently popular game "Overwatch". This game also has another name "Overwatch Butt". The female hero characters in it are also very popular on overseas P stations. MIX made the gentlemen call it a good thing.

In summary, although mainstream media and some mainstream social networking sites on the Internet have restricted the flow of MIX, the popularity of MIX overseas is on the rise, and sometimes the more the flow is restricted, the more it can arouse people's curiosity.

The next thing that foreign consumers who have learned about it do is to think about how to own a MIX headset terminal.

These things have been noticed by some domestic businessmen, who have realized the demand for MIX overseas. However, Xingyu Technology has not gone overseas and has not announced any plans to enter the international market. This has made them see that it is profitable and very lucrative.

So these people started to take action, purchasing goods from the mainland, then reselling them overseas and making a profit from the difference between the middlemen.

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With the official release of MIX, the popularity has risen again.

A large number of first-person videos using MIX headsets have also appeared online. Users have uploaded videos of their first experiences, including first-person videos of playing games, watching movies, and first-person videos of office scenes.

The surge in related videos has further increased the popularity.

On the second day after the product was released, a young consumer who had just been in Xincheng for less than half a year successfully snapped up a MIX head-mounted display terminal. He is also a die-hard fan of Xingyu Technology and owns the entire family of Xingyu Technology products, including mobile phones, computers, and all brands.

He took a special leave to queue up to buy the MIX product when it was released. Now it is almost the rush hour after get off work, and he, who is socially anxious, mustered up the courage to take a walk on the New Town No. 3 Metro Line during the rush hour.

Some people put on masks, but in fact they are also taking off masks.

The guy got dressed for going out, put on a mask and MIX device, and decided to go to a place where head-mounted display devices are rarely seen, such as a subway.

He went from the Xicheng Science and Technology Industrial Park in the new city, where many technology companies are gathered, to the bustling city center. He wanted to take a full subway ride wearing MIX to see how passers-by would react.

This guy was born with social phobia, but after entering the subway he still plucked up the courage to find an empty seat and sit down, then looked around cautiously.

It turned out that no one on the subway was paying attention to him. Everyone was quiet and most of them were staring at their phones.

This situation made him feel that unless he performed a two-and-a-half-minute rap and basketball song in the car, people would not pay attention to him. Otherwise, it was unlikely that people would be willing to take their eyes off their mobile phone screens.

While riding the subway, the security guy did not stop him. He just walked out of the subway wearing the MIX headset and came to the bustling new city center, and then continued into a bustling large shopping mall.

Since it was his first time in this mall, he got lost inside.

After wandering around for a while, the guy couldn't help but mutter: "It would be great if there was a MIX version of the Jade map that could directly draw the route map under my feet..."

He suddenly paused, then woke up his AI assistant Xiao Ling. After a while, Xiao Ling's virtual image appeared in his first-person perspective, and stood quietly with him in the aisle of the mall.

In his perspective, Xiao Ling would also go shopping with him and follow him, and where there are stairs in reality, Xiao Ling's walking movements would also follow him taking steps up the stairs. This can be said to be a perfect and smooth fit between the interaction between Xiao Ling in the virtual digital world and the scenes in the real physical world.

At this moment, the image of Xiao Ling in his first-person perspective is not the original image, but a soft girl next door type with long twin ponytails. Her fashion is also different, and Xiao Ling's appearance is not the original one.

The entire virtual character image is set and matched according to his own preferences. Matrix Quantum has developed a powerful customization system for the AI ​​assistant Xiao Ling. From fashion to appearance and figure, users can customize it according to their own preferred style.
Of course, some virtual props such as fashions and accessories need to be purchased, and some of them are images of well-known characters from classic comics, games, etc. These are image licenses purchased by Matrix Quantum and its copyright owners.

For example, No. 18 in the classic comic "Dragon Ball"; classic game characters Tifa and Yuna; female characters such as D.va in the currently popular "Overwatch", etc. If users want to use these virtual images, they have to pay.

There are female virtual characters, and naturally there are also male virtual characters, which can be customized by users.

Not only do the virtual characters have powerful customization features that allow users to set them according to their preferences, but the names can also be modified. For example, this buddy’s AI assistant’s name was changed to "Xiao Ai", which was the name of his first love. The buddy obviously treated her as a virtual girlfriend.

In addition, the sound source system is also very rich, including soft and cute type, cool type, electronic music type, etc. There are currently more than 130 types of sound sources to choose from, and more rich sound sources will be added in the future.

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(End of this chapter)