Reborn to create a virtual world

Before the smart partner officially started selling, the main target consumer group of Star Orbit is actually a group of young people who are keen on enjoying high-tech.

They have indeed been the main buyers from the pre-order period to the initial stage of the official sale.However, starting from the third week of the official sale, the average age of the buying crowd has suddenly increased by a large amount, and it has begun to shift towards the elderly.

Or to be more precise, suddenly there is a group of quite old grandpas and grandmas who are keen on buying smart companions.After investigation and research, most of the consumers are old people who do not live with their children, and their preferences are cute-looking little boys and girls, and even small animal images that can communicate.

Tan Yuan, who was holding the materials, was also very surprised by all of this, and said with a smile, "We... have opened up a new market?"

Lin Shu said: "It is indeed a bit unexpected, but it is normal to think about it carefully. Many elderly people will have such needs."

Smart partner, you can basically understand from the name, this software is basically the main function of chatting and companionship, and alleviating loneliness.Judging from the functions in this aspect, apart from some otaku and otaku who have communication barriers, the elderly may be the group with the greatest and most urgent needs in this aspect.

Lin Shu frowned, lost in thought.

Seeing his appearance, Tan Yuan was a little puzzled, and said, "It's a good thing to have extra customers, why such an expression?"

Lin Shu said: "Have you realized that the elderly people are actually not in our customer expectation list from the beginning to the end?"

Tan Yuan was stunned for a moment, but didn't react for a moment. After a few seconds of blanking, he figured out Lin Shu's meaning, and immediately thought: "This is indeed a problem...Speaking of it, what's wrong with our system settings? Is it particularly age-unfriendly content?"

Lin Shu rubbed his forehead, and said annoyedly: "I don't know. I didn't consider this aspect when I made it, and I didn't specially review it. There are so many types of chips, and I didn't check all of them by myself. But, if you ask me..."

Tan Yuan said: "...Xingze's copywriting department pays more attention to public morality and civility in their work. I don't think there should be any particularly unpleasant content."

Lin Shu said: "Even if it doesn't make people feel unpleasant, there must be many things that make people feel uncomfortable and unacceptable. Our own design direction is aimed at teenagers, and many of the contents are relatively open and trendy. The older generation may not be able to adapt.”

Tan Yuan said: "This is also an inevitable thing. It is said that there is a three-year-old generation gap. I don't know how many generation gaps there are between grandparents and grandchildren. It is normal to have an aesthetic gap. The point is that we can't do it for this part of the consumer group. And change the overall positioning, so there’s really nothing you can do.”

Lin Shu shook his head and said: "There is still something that can be done. After all, it is a whole consumer group. Now that we have discovered the problem, we can't ignore it on purpose. At least... we must provide some room for choice."

Tan Yuan raised his head and asked, "What are your plans?"

Lin Shu nodded and said, "Go back to Xingze for a meeting first, and I will tell you the details at the meeting."

In fact, as Lin Shu predicted, there are indeed some parts in the smart buddy that the older generation find it difficult to adapt to, although it is not obvious yet.

Leaving aside the enthusiasm of the elderly for smart companions, the current smart companions are also very popular among young people.For teenagers, the positioning of a smart partner is between a friend and a lover. To put it romantically, it is a friend that can be carried around.

And unlike Mr. Tom Riddle in the diary, who has a bad personality and is full of danger, all the intelligent partners are cute and loyal.After locking your identity and recording your voice, you will become the only object he trusts, relies on, cherishes and protects.

When you are sad, you can talk to him at any time; when you are confused, he can give advice in line with his values; when you are lonely, he is always there, willing to listen to all your boring, incomprehensible, and nonsense. Answer seriously until you regain the faith and courage to live.

He will definitely be the most patient friend and the most uncomplaining playmate.

He is more intelligent than pets, but more dedicated than friends.There may be many people in this world who can get along with you happily and share friendship, but only he will regard you as the only one.

Lin Xichen is a 15-year-old girl with excellent grades in the senior high school entrance examination.Her personality and conduct are not bad, but she inevitably has a little spoiled, willful and lazy like a modern only child who was raised by pampering.

Girls mature late psychologically. Although they have already started the first year of high school, they are still very childish.I'm not in love, and I don't know how to make up. The greatest happiness every day is to eat, sleep and watch animation.

She is not a fan of that high-tech hanger, and she rarely plays games.Although I have played several games on the future platform, but because I am struggling with complex operations, I have only experienced the general content so far, and I can't say that I am proficient or good at it.

In fact, she didn't pay attention to the news of the smart partner. All the information in this area was heard from her friends.After watching some related videos and promotions, even though I knew I was not good at playing games, I couldn't help being attracted.

The characters shown in the video are just too cute.

So at the instigation of her friends, she finally couldn't help asking her parents to buy a set of smart companions.

The Lin family's parents were originally reluctant to buy something similar to a game console for Lin Xichen. Firstly, they were discouraged by playing with things, and secondly, Lin Xichen didn't cherish things very much.She is not a game fan herself, and she has bought two game consoles like PSP, and in the end, they all started to pile up in a corner of the drawer before playing for two days.

However, Lin Xichen's desire this time is quite urgent. Since the news of the smart partner came out, he has been pestering his parents for nearly a month, and he has been rambling about the smart partner every day.Although the Lin family's parents felt that what she said was too illusory and sounded a bit exaggerated, they spoiled the child after all, and finally agreed to buy her a smart companion.

Lin Xichen made a promise that she would cherish things, and would not throw them aside after playing for two days, wasting the hard-earned money of her parents.It also guarantees that you will never lose your mind by playing with things, even if you play with smart partners, you will never miss your homework and your grades will drop.

With such repeated guarantees, the Lin family's parents took Lin Xichen to a monopoly counter in an electronics city on a weekend, planning to buy her a smart companion.

Due to the expansion of the production line, the current projection crystal has been able to guarantee the basic supply and continuous stock.But even so, projection crystals are still very popular, and the supply is quite tight.The business hours of the star track counters are very short, only about five hours a day. Even so, they often close in advance, and through the means of daily quantitative sales, it is guaranteed that there will always be no stock.

This is still a specialty store. For other non-specialty stores, due to their tight supply and the acceptance of orders, they are often sold out as soon as the goods arrive.

Lin Xichen's family went at the right time, so they did not return without success.It was just because there were too many people in the store that it took a while.Lin Xichen wandered around the store, picking out the character template she wanted.

The glass display case of the specialty store is divided into several areas, and each area is used to display different types of personality templates.Lin Xichen looked over one by one, and found that there were classic areas, animation areas, martial arts areas, and other areas.In the classic area, characters are classified according to their personality types. Basically, the appearance of characters has a certain echo with their personality characteristics.The animation area and the martial arts area are respectively a large number of classic animation or novel film and television characters.The other parts are other characters that cannot be classified into the first three categories, such as the main character groups of the "Harry Potter" series, and the main character groups of several classic American dramas.

But not all roles.At least Lin Xichen checked for a long time, and found that many of his favorite characters did not appear in the counter.After she inquired, she knew that those characters Xingzhe had not purchased authorization, so naturally there was no corresponding character template.

Lin Xichen was immediately disappointed.

Because there is no favorite anime character Xing Gui, Lin Xichen finally chose a classic character with the most pleasing character image.She has a childish personality, so she didn't think too much about the cultivation of love, but she chose the image of a girl with a bun and a skirt in an ancient costume.

Deep down in her heart, she undoubtedly chose this character as her own dress-up doll.

The template name of the girl in ancient costume is "Xiaojiabiyu", and the character description is "Meet you across time and space, and I will never leave you in this life".Lin Xichen's choice obviously caught both parents by surprise, and they inevitably looked at each other with a smile, feeling that their daughter was childish.

After the clerk takes out the chip and projection crystal, registration and certain follow-up processing are required.Lin Xichen followed him to the counter, watched him insert the chip into a mechanical read-write slot, and then said: "When registering, you need to choose some basic settings of the personality template. If possible, I hope you can fill in it. Click on the form."

Lin Xichen took the form, glanced at it, and found that the first option was about the choice of the smart partner's living form.

□Exhibition type: no daily physiological needs, no need to eat, and can be displayed for a long time.

□Life style: Have daily needs, need to eat and sleep, feeding and care can increase intimacy, but if there is no care for a period of time, you may feel hungry or dizzy, or feel lonely and irritable.

Lin Xichen ticked the Life Type almost without hesitation.She thought: Of course it would be more interesting if it could be fed and interacted with.