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

As soon as Lou Qingyan returned to the company, Deng Jianian came directly to kill him.

"Three things, you need to make up your mind." He stared at him with deep eyes, as if he was afraid that he would run away if he didn't pay attention.

Lou Qingyan said helplessly, "Say it."

"First, we need a vice president of finance. This is the candidate information given to me by the headhunter."

"Second, the scale of the company is getting bigger and bigger, and renting office buildings can no longer meet the demand. It is time for us to build our own office buildings."

"Third, although the VR operation team has been established, it is difficult to recruit talents for hardware R&D. Domestic research in this area is too backward, and those with a little achievement are recruited by other companies. My suggestion is to acquire a mature team. .”

He paused, looked into Lou Qingyan's eyes, and said, "Buy Yuanhui."

"Buy Yuanhui?" Lou Qingyan was startled.

"Yuanhui's VR business department is personally operated by me. It is very mature from R&D to operation. The product benchmark is also PC-level VR. It is not the domestic VR boxes that are small and troublesome. The technical level is completely fine."

"And," he continued, "after the split, Xinyuan took away almost all of Yuanhui's traditional industries, leaving only the Internet and some emerging industries. Now Yuanhui is very suitable for being absorbed by deep space for filling Our big, empty shelf."

"Yuanhui is at least the top [-] in the past, has it been reduced to the point where we can eat it casually?"

"We can start with the VR business department first," Deng Jianian said calmly, "bit by bit to eat away."

Lou Qingyan: "You really have no feelings for Yuan Hui."

Deng Jianian smiled and said, "I have feelings for deep space."

"Building a laboratory, building a computer room, building a commercial building, and acquiring everything cost money. Does the company have so much money in its books?"

"Using our working capital for laboratories and computer rooms, we can apply for loans from banks to build buildings. As for acquisitions, we can use small means and pay in installments." Deng Jianian said, "Zhuang Zhou has received large orders from all over the world. Empty Heart will become a cash cow, and it will work, and it will be very difficult for us to be short of money."

"Since you've already made up your mind, let's do it." Lou Qingyan patted him on the shoulder, "Young man, I'm optimistic about you."

Compared with the many talents and projects in the intelligent laboratory, the virtual laboratory is simply shabby.

Except for Li Yang who was sent to be in charge of the digital laboratory, four of the seven-member core R&D team of Deep Space stayed in the intelligent laboratory, among them Gu Han was in charge of graphics research and development, Tang Xiaoyu was in charge of intelligent voice research and development, named Zhou Jun and Wang Junyi The two youths of Xie Jin developed the fire language together.

Only two people were transferred to the virtual laboratory, Yan Zizhen and Shen Le.

Lou Qingyan called the two of them to a meeting.

It is still the familiar whiteboard, with familiar handwriting still written on it.

In the four lines on the left, the three lines of "realistic graphics, virtual world architecture, and plenoptic function" have been crossed out, and there is only one "first-generation VR head display" left.

The four lines on the right are the four pain points of VR they summed up.

"Content is scarce. Reality, interaction, and immersion are insufficient."

"Various models are separated from each other and cannot form a unified software ecosystem."

"Poor user experience: grainy, dizzy, small field of view, bulky headset."

"PC-side VR is expensive, and the all-in-one machine has poor playability."

The first line has been crossed out, and the rest remain the same.

Yan Zizhen and Shen Le looked at those few lines, feeling as if they had traveled through time and space. Who would have thought that the VR problem that caused headaches for the whole world could be solved so easily here by Lou Qingyan?

"We won't look at the problems that have been solved," Lou Qingyan said. "How do you think the remaining three problems should be solved?"

The two said: "The third and fourth items seem to be hardware issues, and we can only solve the second item. The specific method is easy to talk about. Create a universal VR system with all hardware, just like Android for smartphones. .”

Shen Le added: "But the problem of software inconsistency is mainly caused by the all-in-one machine. Zhuang Zhou's chips are used on PCs, and our development must also be aimed at PCVR. They all share the Windows ecosystem, so there is no such problem."

"So my task for you is not to develop a VR system," Lou Qingyan said, "but to make the Fanxing VR platform the audience's first-choice entrance to the virtual world."

"Entrance? Like steam?"

Lou Qingyan shook his head, "Steam is still limited to a flat UI, but Fanxing VR is not. You can compare it to Jiangxin Building, which is a simple entry-level application. After users open the application, they first enter the scene of Jiangxin Building, and then they can pass through The scene goes to other applications."

The two understood, "It is to make steam into a virtual scene with various portals inside."

"That's right, Jiangxin Building is the default scene, and other scenes can also be changed, such as a mansion, a space capsule. The same application has different entrances in different scenes, such as film and television applications, in Jiangxin Building, it is cross-legged. , in the mansion is to turn on the TV, and in the space capsule is to turn on the holographic disc. The application entry is a simple module, which can be done by application developers, scene developers, and ordinary users. If an application There is no entrance module in a certain scene, and the default is a cyclone-shaped portal. If there are many, users can choose freely according to their needs. For example, in Jiangxinlou, adding a new module may change the way to enter the film and television application. Just look in the mirror."

Lou Qingyan finished speaking in one breath, and said: "This is what I thought of temporarily, you can hold more meetings with the product manager and brainstorm."

This time the company expanded its recruitment and recruited a huge number of product managers.

"Boss, you are the best product manager." Shen Le patted a sincere rainbow fart.

Yan Zizhen said with emotion: "Really, a product manager who understands technology is simply a treasure in the world."

"Try to be smart with me, if you try again, it's impossible to lose your position as a product manager, you might as well cry to Deng Jianian." Lou Qingyan scolded with a smile, "Okay, this is the first task I assign to you. Starry VR, an entrance to the virtual reality world."

"Huh? This is the first item? This task is already enough, okay?"

"Let's talk about the second task," Lou Qingyan ignored the two crying, "provide solutions for various VR application scenarios, and implement VR in all walks of life."

The two looked at each other, "This topic is too big."

"I define VR application scenarios into six categories, manufacturing, health, education, culture, social networking, and commerce. After you go back, organize and list detailed applications for these six categories, and then reclassify: which ones are a What can be solved by a general app, what must be customized."

"If you can solve it with an app, try not to customize it." Lou Qingyan said. "Travel applications, for example, used to require different roaming systems for different scenic spots. Some small interactions such as fountains and lottery in scenic spots had to be programmed separately. We can write a set of tools that allow users to upload photos to model scenic spots. , Just draw two strokes on the map to generate a roaming route, all interactive actions have components, and different component combinations can design complex scene interactions without the need for users to master programming.”

"In this way, scenic spots can create their own roaming scenes without having to go through a lot of searching and customization. This is a tool for enterprises, and we can also launch a user-oriented travel app. Browse freely."

"Broaden your thinking a little bit, delete the travel in the travel app, change it to roaming, and make it an application that 'provides an immersive roaming experience'. In addition to browsing scenic spots, users can also use this app to try hotels, view decorations, Experiencing a movie set...and more."

Both thoughtfully, "We know."

Lou Qingyan added: "Although the growth of content will stimulate the growth of the VR market, in a short period of time, this thing still cannot enter the hands of thousands of households, because it is not just needed."

"The situation in the past two years should be the same as the earliest computers: VR Internet cafes are the mainstay, and VR experience stores are supplemented. Middle-class families will generally buy them, and well-off families will buy them as appropriate. Although it cannot be fully popularized, it is enough. gone."

"Smartphones were not just needed when they first came out, but now, who can do without them? Human needs need to be cultivated, and VR has great potential. We can use these few years to cultivate it into a rigid need."

Compared with VR, AR actually has greater potential and is more suitable for cultivating rigid needs.

However, the AR in Lou Qingyan's vision is closely integrated with the Internet of Things. Without the Internet of Things, his AR would not be possible.

There is still a bigger technical bottleneck in AR. It is not simply a matter of projecting a shadow on the glasses. It requires optical waveguide, material science, light field technology... a multi-pronged breakthrough.

In Lou Qingyan's deployment, the VR civilian software was handed over to the deep space R&D team for brainstorming.If you can make a single app, you can make it into an app. If you have to customize it, Deep Space Wonderland will come forward to contact and cooperate, and the head office will complete the research and development.

This is a series of huge, complex, and long-term projects, and the results need to be achieved bit by bit.

For non-civilian software, Liang Yanchu still has a dinner waiting for him.

In addition, there are the real users of VR, such as film and television and games. Lou Qingyan plans to do it himself.

But now, what he needs to do most is to fill his virtual laboratory as soon as possible and form a hardware team.

At the same time, Lou Haochen received an acquisition request from Deng Jianian.