You are a black technology boss, you didn't say it sooner!

The news of Deep Space's establishment of the VR Internet Café Alliance spread quickly.

Under the joint publicity of major Internet cafe brands and Deep Space, more and more people know that Taixuanjing actually still has products in stock, and they have not put them out for sale. Instead, they have adopted the form of Internet cafe cooperation, striving to let most people experience.

A large number of fans suffer from having nowhere to line up, and they can't spend money on Taixuan Mirror. They are all overwhelmed by the news.This is a benefit!Whether you can buy it or not, let's play it first!

On the evening of November 2021, 11, Deep Space Wonderland joined forces with more than 26 Internet cafes to hold a small VR Internet cafe alliance unveiling ceremony.

At the same time, fire shared the download link of Fanxing VR on Weibo, claiming that it has fully cooperated with Internet cafes and prepared some "small gifts" for everyone.

Fanxing VR is a VR portal software launched by Deep Space. Its function is a bit like a combination of an app store and a video website.Users don't need to download other messy software, they can enjoy diversified VR only through Fanxing VR.

This software was released at the SIGGRAPH conference in July. At that time, it was just an empty shell, lacking pillar-level content, and only scribbled some crude VR videos and games, so it was unknown and did not receive attention.

But this time, almost all the "small gifts" prepared by Lou Qingyan were at the pillar level.

On November 2021, 11, the second day after the opening of the alliance, in Yang Gang's Internet cafe, the VR area has already been set up decently, and he is debugging the program in front of the machine.

A series of new posters of Taixuanjing have already been pasted outside the gate of the Internet cafe.There are three sets of posters, namely the "Peak Dance" series, the VR application series, and the VR game series.There are different themes in each series. There are so many contents and so many types that the whole wall is pasted up in all kinds, which makes people dizzy.

In order to set up the machine, Yang Gang's Internet cafe was closed all night, and it just opened at this time.

He was not at all worried about how many customers Taixuanjing could attract. What he didn't expect was that the first customers that Taixuanjing welcomed were not the regular customers who often come to Internet cafes, but a group of people looking at it. Young girls who are not familiar with Internet cafes.

"Boss, I heard that you have a too-illusory mirror here, is it true?" asked the girl at the front.

"Yes, we have a total of 30 camera positions with illusory mirrors here, do you want to open one?" Yang Gang said. "Let me tell you in advance, because this kind of seat is relatively rare, the charge is also more expensive..."

"Stop talking nonsense," the girl aggressively took a picture of her ID card, "First charge it with 200 yuan, and you can just turn on the phone for me."

Yang Gang didn't think that this girl looked like someone who loves to play games. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly realized that Taixuanjing didn't become famous because of games, but because of variety shows.

"You all came to watch "Life Is Elsewhere"?"

After he finished speaking, he laughed and went to the Internet cafe to watch TV programs. What kind of retro operation is this.

"Yes, I'm here to see my elder brother Jing Shen."

The people behind began to chat quietly.

"Are you also a fan of Depth of Field?"

"I am, she is not, she is here to see "Peak Dance"."

"Wow, I came to see this too! "Peak Dance" is absolutely amazing, I tell you that it will definitely be a hit."

"Peak Dance, what is that? Is it also a VR variety show?"

"Don't you guys know? It premiered on Radio Fran last night. The TV version is very good-looking, so I came here to watch the VR version again..."

Yang Gang watched the network administrator recharge their cards, feeling itchy, and said to the network administrator: "I will also go to the VR area to open a machine."

"You obviously made an appointment to eat chicken with some regular customers, and they will come later." The network administrator said.

"No, no, no, if they come, just say I'm busy."

Yang Gang sat in front of the computer and clicked on the icon of Fanxing VR with great curiosity.

The homepage of the software has several promotional pictures, and the top one is "Dance at the Peak".

This is a star program, which can be seen on TV, and the VR version is exclusive to Fanxing platform.

"What kind of VR tricks can a dance show make?" Yang Gang thought, "It can't be to let people sit in the studio and watch the dance all the time, right?" His barren head really couldn't think of more ways.

Perhaps the planning of Deep Space was learned from Fire, and there are a lot of ghost ideas. The opening title of this show is still very exciting.

The film opens with a dance, the dancers are four guest tutors, they dance in the arena, the movements are very steady and smooth, but the scenes behind them are constantly changing, the classroom, the stage, the street, the square...

The voice-over sounded, "For so many years, I have been searching for the original meaning of dance."

The background music turned into an allegro, and other dancers began to appear, falling from the sky to Yang Gang like ink dripping into a pool.Countless graceful dances are stirred up around him at the same time, street dance, waltz, ballet, classical dance... Such a picture should be messy and without beauty, but every dance is danced on the drums, and the background music An extraordinary match, making all of them surprisingly harmonious.

The voice-over continues, "What is to be expressed? What is to be said? What is the meaning of dance?"

The dancers appeared faster and faster, and the background became more and more blurred. Suddenly, the whole scene went dark, only the characters of different colors glowed slightly.Some of the most classic moments in the history of international dance were frozen around him one after another, which made him dizzy.

"Dance, what is it?"

The screen lights up.

Yang Gang was instantly placed in a pure white space from the shadows, and then the scene was slowly rendered.

The stage, LED screen, overhead light stand, and colorful lights gradually appeared...even the audience sitting around cheering and whispering to each other clearly.

He came to the studio of the show.

The stage of this studio turned out to be circular!

The entire stage is a huge ring, the stage is on the outside, but the auditorium is caged inside by the ring.

The letters composed of iron frames and neon tubes are suspended above the head, which are the four characters of "Peak Dance".

The host came to the stage, and after warming up, he said, "Everyone, do you think our studio is particularly different today?"

The most different thing for Yang Gang is of course the circular stage, but the audience shouted out the name of the VR glasses in unison.

Yang Gang turned his head to look sideways, and sure enough, he saw a taixuan mirror placed next to each seat, and there was also one in his position.

The host began to introduce the rules. It turned out that half of the dances of this show were not performed on stage, but were recorded in real time with motion capture equipment in the background, processed with special effects, and presented in VR glasses.

Audience: "Wow."

What kind of visual effect would that be?

The competition system is a very common scoring and knockout competition. Each group of contestants prepares two dances. There are two rounds of selection on the stage and in VR. After some training, conduct a mentor competition.

The first round will start soon.Yang Gang felt that one of the most admirable aspects of this show was that after telling the names and places of origin of the contestants, they danced directly. There was no bb, let alone telling stories.

The stage performance was very exciting. The contestants ran around on the circular stage and made various difficult moves.Yang Gang was amazed again and again, but he always felt that something was missing.

At this time, a barrage flashed across, pointing out the thoughts of him and most of the audience: "A few people danced very well, but they all showed off their skills. I don't know if this is a deliberate arrangement to test the basic skills or what , This kind of showy stuff seems very exciting at first glance, but after a long time, it feels boring."

It is true, but Yang Gang is still looking forward to the next content, he believes that fire will not let him down.

After the stage performance, it entered the VR performance session, when a short film began to be played on the big screen.

It turned out that the contestants had come to the program group a few days ago, lived in the dormitory prepared by the program group, and began to prepare for the competition.

They had just passed the audition, and they were full of expectations, and they had various speculations about how the competition would go on.

After the director finished explaining the rules of the first round of competition to them, he asked them to take them to a large empty room to continue to learn about the second round of competition.

As soon as I entered the room, I heard a clear voice saying, "Welcome to the Illusory Realm, I am the administrator here..."

Everyone was extremely surprised, the smiling person standing in the center of the room was actually Lou Qingyan.

During post-editing, the subtitle introduction given to him by the program team was as follows: "Lou Qingyan, program npc, producer."

A question mark crossed the barrage.

"I'm not surprised that Lou Qingyan made a guest appearance as an NPC, but he's actually the producer of this show?"

"I don't know, he is still the producer who lives elsewhere."

"Look at Lou Qingyan's state, it's too casual, like a melon-eating netizen, he's just here to watch the show!"

"I also think that Lou Qingyan is purely on the show for fun, and seems to have taken on a very important role, the kind who can control the life and death of the contestants."

"What the hell is the administrator of the Illusory Realm?"

Yang Gang was also curious. He only knew about the mirror of the illusory, the mirror of the mirror. He didn't expect that there would be a "realm of illusory" in this program. Is there a relationship between the two?

Lou Qingyan greeted everyone to sit down, and introduced: "Our Illusionary Realm is a magical place, it can take you into scenes that are difficult for you to touch normally. Please go to the dressing room and change your body-sensing suits and glasses. We're about to start our fantasy journey."

Everyone came out after changing their clothes in novelty. Everyone was wearing a black bodysuit with glasses covering half of their faces.

The glasses are big but light, and the body suit is tight but elastic, and the wearing experience is quite comfortable.

There are cameras on the glasses, allowing people to see the outside world. Several people stood in front of the mirror and couldn't help but marvel, "Wow, I'm so handsome, do I look like the cool agent in the movie? Hehe!"

"Administrator," someone asked Lou Qingyan, "are these VR glasses we are wearing?"

"This is a test machine for high-end VR glasses under Deep Space," Lou Qingyan said with a smile, "210-degree ultra-wide-angle field of view, 8K resolution per eye, more advanced optical system, precise eye tracking, and a new focus blur algorithm. A new wireless connection technology... In short, you know it's nb. "

"Wow, it's so light, it's also wireless, and it looks like the real thing."

When this episode was recorded, Taixuan Mirror hadn't been released yet, and the contestants had never seen the world, and they made bumpkin voices.

"Everyone, are you ready?" Lou Qingyan said, "When you're ready, shout the slogan 'Jianglou 999', and you can open the illusory realm."

Everyone: "..."

To be reasonable, we are a serious dance program, why did you suddenly cue Jiang Fu?

Seeing their hesitation, Lou Qingyan urged: "Shout, shout, don't you want to know the content of the second round?"

"Ahem," the director suddenly interjected from the sidelines, "The slogan is actually the slogan of our show, 'Where the heart is, the stage is there', don't be fooled by him."

Everyone: "..."

Facing the strange eyes, Lou Qingyan smiled and fell on the sofa, "I didn't fool you, I set the password, you can call Jianglou 999 to turn it on, believe it or not?"

"...No, no, no." Everyone hurriedly shouted the slogan of the program.

Yang Gang also laughed when he saw this, and when he looked up, he saw rows of condemnations in the barrage, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I can't swallow it anymore!"

Before the barrage was finished, the large LED screen in the middle of the studio was covered by a cloud of smoke, and smoke rose around Yang Gang, blocking his sight.

When the smoke dissipated, the surrounding environment was no longer a studio hall, but a fairy palace full of brilliance.

"It's kind of pretty." Not only is it kind of pretty, Yang Gang even stared at it for a moment.

Came back to his senses and hurriedly issued a barrage, "Look at me from the program team! Can you make this scene into a wallpaper that is too unreal! It's so beautiful! It doesn't matter if you pay for it!"

The barrage was sent out, followed by a row of "secondary" and "+1" from netizens.

In a blink of an eye, the contestants appeared in the scene, and their clothes changed into flowing white robes.

Yang Gang was dumbfounded again, it was clearly just a virtual character in front of him, why was it so vivid?Not only the appearance is exactly the same as the contestants, but even the expressions and movements are so flexible and unrestrained, not stiff...

The contestants also discovered this fact, held each other's hands and slapped each other's faces, and yelled in disbelief.

Someone lost his mind and said: "It's like, it's like time travel..."

The boys calmed down their shock and cheered and played high.

Someone started playing tricks, "Dog thief, I am going to punish you on behalf of the Jade Emperor today!"

Someone was running around in a place where the clouds and fog were thick, "Wow, look at me flying through the clouds and fog!"

Netizen: "Childish ghost!"

Some people danced on the spot.

In the fairy palace scene full of radiance and fairy mist, the simple dancing posture also looks dignified and ethereal.

Seeing this dance, Yang Gang seemed to understand the real essence of this show.

Someone stared at Lou Qingyan, "Administrator, how did this happen? Is our current virtual reality technology so powerful?"

"Don't doubt it, it's just that powerful." With a wave of Lou Qingyan's hand, a water mirror appeared in front of his eyes, and the appearance of the big room outside was reflected in the water mirror.

As soon as this action came out, the barrage suddenly became excited again.

"It's so cool, it's like fairy magic!"

"My God, I thought it was too unreal. I mean, the technology of the glasses is already the limit of today's VR technology. I didn't expect it to be so awesome!"

"Ah, I want to play, I want to play, when will I be able to play!"

Lou Qingyan pointed to the room in the picture, "We call this kind of VR 'Vision Replacement', which means that you also make corresponding actions in reality, but use VR glasses to replace it with another vision."

"This room is a large venue specially prepared for this kind of VR. You see, the wall is covered with a thick layer of memory foam to prevent bumps. There are many round holes in the sponge, which are locators, cameras, and various sensors.

"The body suit on your body has two functions. The first is to provide the sense of touch and heat and cold, and the second is to capture motion. Through the dual motion capture of the body suit and the camera, coupled with deep learning technology, a series of animations from Origin The enhanced algorithm, under the calculation of Zhuang Zhou's Xiaoyaoyou chip, can perfectly reproduce your movements."

"There is an infrared camera inside and a structured light camera on the bottom of the glasses, and the origin algorithm and Xiaoyaoyou chip are also used to capture your expressions."

Someone suddenly realized, "Our second round of competition, won't it be dancing in a virtual scene?"

"That's right," Lou Qingyan said, "I know that dancing pays attention to details, so don't worry, with the powerful technical support of deep space, the accuracy of motion capture can reach every square centimeter of the skin, and it is impossible to miss any tiny trace. detail."

Some people danced a few moves in disbelief, Lou Qingyan took a video of him, and then showed it with a water mirror.The man stared dumbfounded, as expected, not a single detail was lost, it was extremely vivid and powerful.

"Do you know why the dance appeared in the first place?" Lou Qingyan waved his hand again, and the surrounding scenes began to change.

"For...for expressing emotions, communicating with people, offering sacrifices, or simply imitating animals and nature?" someone said.

Another person said: "Dance is a very primitive way of expression. In an era without language, writing, and painting, human beings knew how to express emotions with body language. Dance is also an immersive art. I think I kind of understand the role of VR, think about it, perform peacock dance in the aura-filled jungle, roam in space, and fight with nature in the eye of the storm..."

The ever-changing scenes around gradually settled down, and everyone came to modern times from Asgard.

This is a school. There are slogans on the walls to study hard. There are laughter and noises in the corridor from time to time. Everyone's clothes have also been changed into school uniforms.

The vision glides across the corridor and freezes in an empty classroom.

Before everyone could ask what it was for, they saw the classroom door open, and a tall and strong boy dragged another thin boy in like a chicken, and threw him on the ground.

Everyone's pupils shrank, and a word came to mind - campus bullying.

The tall boy entered the classroom, and a group of dogs rushed in behind him.A circle of people surrounded the skinny boy, first threatening him with words, then punching and kicking him, and finally each spit into his mouth and eyes.

Regarding things like bullying on campus, the feelings produced by hearing about it and watching it with one's own eyes, watching it from a video and watching it personally are completely different.

Everyone was worried, and kept rushing to stop the group of people, but they could only pass through their bodies again and again.

In the TV version of the show, there is a postmortem interview in the middle of this segment.

"I've experienced it, I've really experienced it," said a boy. "At that moment, wow." He made a gesture, remained silent for a long time, and then said with difficulty, "I remembered it all at once."

"I know it's fake, they're all actors, they're acting." A girl tried to express her state of mind at the time, "But I can't help it, you will know when you are in that scene, the feeling of being there is too... ...so different."

After the bully left, it took a long time before the thin boy got up from the ground, straightened his clothes, lowered his head, and left the classroom in silence.

The scene was silent, and the needle drop could be heard.

Until Lou Qingyan said: "How about it, who will try it?"

"Try... what?" Everyone said in disbelief.

"Dancing." Lou Qingyan said, "This is a proposition composition, an impromptu dance."

What kind of impromptu dance?School bullying? ?

Everyone looked around and saw a modern dancer who was also relatively thin and said, "Xiao Chu, why don't you try?"

Xiao Chu hesitated for a moment, and stood up, "I've never skipped this kind of thing, and I don't know if I can perform well...Is it just me?"

Everyone recommended another taller contestant who also danced modern dance, "Xiao Wei, come and try."

The two of them contemplated for a while, and were about to go on stage, Lou Qingyan pulled their arms and pressed them on the chair, "Wait a minute, I'll show you the perspective of the parties."

Everyone else was shocked, "There is also the perspective of the person involved? That is so worrying!"

The two of them entered another scene respectively. They both screamed at first, but gradually became more and more silent.

When he finally left the scene, Xiao Chu, who was watching the perspective of the bullied, started to sob.

The expression capture function of this system is very powerful, and the tears of the virtual characters roll down from the eye sockets simultaneously.

"This..." Everyone said worriedly, "Why don't you rest for a while before going up..."

"No," Xiao Chu cried, "I'll go right now."

He walked to the middle of the classroom, and Xiao Wei, who played the role of the bully, also walked up in silence.

"Ready? Let's start." Lou Qingyan played the pre-set background music.

This is an impromptu pas de deux, not a fighting dance, but a real pas de deux.

Anyone who has experience knows how difficult this kind of dance is. After a simple discussion, the two people have their own ideas about the choreography in their hearts.

Not to mention that the two dancers in the field have just met each other not long ago, and they don't know each other at all.

But as soon as the dance started, everyone was caught in it instantly.

In order to make up for the lack of tacit understanding, the two of them often imitated the scene just now.

At first, it was not a strong verbal insult. There was not much interaction between the two dancers. Each danced according to their own rhythm. The movements of the bully were full of strength and slightly rude, and they kept pointing or covering the head of the other person with their fingers. department.Playing the bullied person has a different style, with hesitant and vague movements, restrained strength, and sometimes a movement is not smooth, and it will break down fragilely.

After the two people are familiar with each other's rhythm style, the interaction will increase.At this time, the bullying mausoleum was upgraded. One person grabbed the other's hair and smashed it down with force. The bullied escaped unbearably humiliated, but was caught again and again...

The dance has changed from a one-person fighting dance mode to a complete duet dance. The two entered the state at the same time, and one eye met. Without words, they knew the other's next move and cooperated with it. They danced more and more intensely, more and more The bigger it opens and closes, the more powerful it becomes...

They began to use some difficult skills, and the cooperation with each other was not jerky.Jumping to a violent movement, Xiao Chu suddenly let out an "Ah", tears fell again, and he jumped while crying, his movements changed from standing to kneeling, and then to lying down, and Xiao Wei responded accordingly Change.A silent crash, a hysteria.

The background music became more and more crazy, and the whole dance became more and more crazy.

Lou Qingyan suddenly shouted: "The last ten seconds!"

Without even thinking about it, the two followed the movements to the end, and the dance was frozen at the last second: Xiao Chu lay motionless in front, Xiao Wei knelt on his knees, spread his arms, leaned back, and let out a fierce roar, Background music followed.

After ten seconds of silence, Lou Qingyan said, "Yes, it's perfect."

Xiao Wei suddenly picked up Xiao Chu, held him tightly in his arms, and cried bitterly.

In the TV version of the interview, an onlooker contestant said: "I was wondering if the person who played the bully would be more uncomfortable when dancing this part? He is a very kind and good person, and I can understand his feelings... ..."

"He jumped in, they both jumped in."

In front of the computer, Yang Gang took off his VR glasses, wiped away his tears, and then blew his nose vigorously.

He actually cried.

He tried his best to hold back his tears, thinking that it was just a dance, as a tough guy of steel, how the hell would he be able to watch him cry.

Fortunately, he was not the only one who watched and cried.

The barrage has become a sea of ​​tears, and countless people said: "I understand the charm of VR dance, I completely understand."

The charm of VR dance does not stop there. After all, this dance is only used in the scene of an empty classroom, and the effect can be performed without VR. The role of VR in this dance is only to help the dancers get more involved.

This was just a small experiment. After the completion, everyone returned to the Asgard scene.

Lou Qingyan said to everyone: "Next, I want to tell you the ultimate direction for the selection of dancers for the program "Dance at the Peak". We will rely on the theme of VR to shoot an unprecedented VR dance drama "A Thousand Reds Cry, "Everything is beautiful and sad", this is a form of dance performance that has never been performed before, and all of you are pioneers."

"We have selected a total of 36 groups of dancers from the audition. You come from different regions, different nationalities, and dance different types of dance. You will communicate and blend here, and jointly compete for the 36 groups of dancers in the ultimate dance drama. We will select twelve main hairpins, twelve deputy hairpins, and twelve side hairpins in rounds of trials, and arrange different positions in the dance drama according to their rankings."

"Whoever can stand out in the peak dance competition will be able to take the c position in the dance drama with his dance!"

The off-site scenes finally ended, and the second round of the first episode officially started.

Considering that the contestants danced this kind of dance for the first time, the program group did not prepare a fixed theme for the first VR performance, but designated several topics for them to choose by themselves.

If the first round of competition is to show off skills, not to test expression, but only to test the basic skills of dancers, then the second round of competition is a complete and vivid expression.

The whole program starts from here, and it enters the ultimate visual feast that makes people "fuck" and can't stop.

Someone danced "Flower". The dancer walked in the peach forest of the mountain temple, and his movements were like clouds and flowing water, like a frightened bird flying away. Wherever he passed, a bunch of peach blossoms bloomed, and the petals gathered and spread around him. Flying up to the sky, the whole picture is too beautiful to behold.

Some people danced "snow".Snowflakes flutter and fall, sometimes turning into the sun with a sigh, and sometimes piling up on the ground to create a heavy feeling.The first half of the dance is as light as nothing, and the middle part is as heavy as a thousand junctures. On the vast and silent snow-capped mountains, the strength and beauty are overwhelming.In the second half, the whole scene suddenly shook violently, the snow mountain collapsed, and the dancers were faintly visible in the flying snow debris. What they danced was the roar of nature and the silent roar of the limbs.

The most breathtaking is a "sword dance".

This contestant has always practiced a special style combining martial arts and dancing, and is also well-known, but he has never seen him use a sword.

In this VR dance, he not only wields a sword, but also turns into a woman's costume, which is very stunning, with three points of lingering, three points of heroic spirit, and the rest are all peerless.

At the beginning of the dance, he stood on a towering mountain peak, lightly flicked his sword, and a clang spread in all directions. He moved, and the mountains and forests also moved with him, singing for him. The sun, the moon, and the sky descended for him alone, and the special effects of the scene began to change, seamlessly integrated with the dance. It was exactly: "Huo Ruyi shoots the nine sunsets, and he is like a group of emperors. Wrath, let it be like the river and the sea condense the light."

All the audience held their breath, shouting "absolutely" in the barrage.

It's really amazing that you can use VR special effects to express the shocking dance, and this shocking happens right in front of the audience, so that many people are really distracted, immersed in the dance scene, and can't get away from it for a long time .

After the show ended, Yang Gang recited the phrase "Where the heart is, the stage is there", and his excitement was uncontrollable.

When the display problem of virtual reality is solved, people can finally see the beautiful scenery that they can never see in a lifetime.

That is not a simple sense of time travel and immersion.

It was an extremely open, magnificent, and shocking feeling of "seeing the world, seeing all living beings".

So intoxicating.

He turned back and enjoyed the visual feast again, and it took him a long time to pull himself out of the state of lingering.

Someone outside called him to eat chicken, and someone called him to go down the canyon, but he was completely out of mood.

Turn on Fanxing VR, browse from top to bottom over and over again, even if he doesn't do anything, just scroll down the list here, he feels happy.

The update content of Fanxing VR this time is not only this program, but also a set of application software and a set of game gift packages.

Yang Gang was so excited, he just wanted to see how fully the fire could bring out the VR features.

After some hesitation, he opened the game list first.

The three games happened to scroll back and forth in the homepage recommendation.

A martial arts game, an otome game, and a game-making software called VR Game Master, which is not a game.

The first and third resources are both very large. Yang Gang hesitated a little, and his mood of wanting to play VR games as soon as possible prevailed, so he downloaded the Otome game first.

While downloading, he complained, "Which genius thought of using VR to play otome games, is it to drive us gay men to a dead end? Even if I don't protest, I will protest for my wife's wallet!"

Yang Gang once watched his wife spend thousands of dollars for a few pieces of paper without blinking an eye.As a husband, he still can't object. The objections are "paper people, why are you jealous?"

The otome games on the mobile phone are so non-stop, and now there is a VR version, which is really terrible.

While complaining, Yang Gang couldn't wait to go in.