Chapter 1106 Use It or Not

Shanghai International Convention and Exhibition Center.

The product launch of the Mirage virtual reality system was officially held.

For Musk, this is not the first time he has been here.

Standing in the hall with the invitation letter, just as he was about to go to the conference site, he suddenly noticed an acquaintance here.

This man is none other than Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook.

Some time ago, Facebook made a business division and large-scale layoffs of Oculus, which caused a lot of uproar on the Internet.

Now that he's here, Musk isn't at all surprised.

Even if there is no accident, in the near future, he is very likely to become his competitor.

"I didn't expect to see you here," Musk stretched out his right hand with a formulaic smile on his face. "It looks like today is a lucky day."

After shaking hands with Musk, Zuckerberg replied succinctly.

"Fortunately, I didn't expect it."

Musk: "Your expression seems to tell me that you don't seem to be in a good mood."

Zuckerberg asked back: "Aren't you the same?"

A parade against the introduction of the Phantom System has broken out in Los Angeles. Although there are 10,000 people who want to cooperate with Star Technology, Zuckerberg has to cautiously shelve this plan and plan to wait and see for a while.

However, what he didn't expect was that, in contrast to his cautiousness, Xingkong Technology seemed to not only not take the recent online public opinion seriously, but chose to hold a product launch at this juncture.

This action really surprised him.

If they choose to hold a product launch at this time, it will undoubtedly mean that they will face the surging public opinion.

And almost certainly, those reporters won't throw friendly questions at them.

At least Western journalists certainly don't.

"Haha, I'm just average," Musk said with a smile in the face of the acquaintance's rhetorical question, "Although virtual reality technology is very interesting to me, it doesn't make me addicted. Maybe he is very important to Facebook. , but for my Tesla and Space-X, it doesn't matter."

This sentence is true.

Although coveting the potential benefits of this future technology, it is just a money-making tool for Musk, not as eager to get it as Zuckerberg.

Looking at Musk, who was smiling and gloating, Zuckerberg didn't say anything, turned and walked to the venue.

Musk also didn't say anything, just shrugged and walked in the direction of the venue.

The product launch is about to start.

One thing he shares with Zuckerberg is that he also wants to know what Startech is going to say here, hoping to wash away the dirty water from his body with a product launch...

...

At the press conference, the crowd was full of people, and they looked at the darkness.

Among the people present are the CEOs of well-known technology companies, as well as big men from academia, or journalists working in the media.

At the beginning of the meeting, Ms. Chen Yushan, CEO of Xingkong Technology, came to the stage and announced the start of the product launch.

Surprisingly, the CEO did not seem to regard the recent hot discussion on the Internet as an important thing and put it at the top of the conference, but put the two major focuses of the future work of the Phantom System on the release. the beginning of the meeting.

In its place is a content rating system for virtual reality networks, and a new pilot program to go with it.

According to the CEO, Xingkong Technology will establish a virtual reality network rating system to determine the signals that users can receive from the neural modem according to the user's age and the user's autonomous choice.

In short, users under the age of 18 must not receive discordant content, but users who have reached the age of 18 can selectively turn on and receive those discordant content under the premise of local laws and regulations.

At the same time, in order to improve the algorithmic logic of the Phantom system and better identify suitable parts from the huge amount of information, Star Technology announced the launch of the "Master God" plan, recruiting 5-20 employees on all continents in the form of employees Testers, who participated in this project, helped Phantom System complete this algorithm logic through deep learning methods.

As for the specific experimental content, Chen Yushan did not disclose it on the spot.

After all, that's not the point of the launch.

After briefly explaining these arrangements, she cleared her throat and continued in the face of the audience and the cameras in the back row.

"...In addition, I learned that there are some false reports and rumors circulating on the Internet, as well as some concerns from the general public."

"From a scientific point of view, virtual reality is absolutely safe. It is like our second eye. It is only a tool we use to receive external signals, and it cannot replace our unique thinking."

"Of course, everyone has the right to choose whether to evolve or not. As a technology company, we only serve the future and are only responsible for providing better choices."

"As for what kind of lifestyle to choose, it's not up to us, but up to the users themselves."

"The above is our company's response to the recent false rumors about virtual reality technology on the Internet. Next is the focus of this product launch..."

Sitting under the stage, Zuckerberg could not help frowning slightly, looking at the CEO of Xingkong Technology who was speaking on the stage.

In terms of clarifying negative news itself, such a statement is nothing.

Both the solutions are given and the questions are answered at the same time.

However, in this way, can the public completely let go of their wariness of this technology? Can it persuade vested interest groups headed by the White House to recognize the reality and accept the status quo?

This is too much to underestimate the power of this technology...

To be honest, he is pessimistic about the simple handling of Xingkong Technology.

However, the CEO standing on the stage continued to speak casually as if ignoring this point at all.

"According to our company's development strategy."

"We will divide the global business into eight regions, establish supercomputing centers in each region to provide computing services for the virtual reality network, and expand the breadth of the virtual reality network based on the supercomputing centers in each region."

"The site selection for the first supercomputing center has been completed, located in Jinling, China, which will provide computing power support for the virtual reality network throughout East Asia."

"As for business in other regions, we welcome other forward-looking high-tech companies to join our business and promote the globalization of virtual reality networks."

"Of course, if not interested, we also understand."

"After all, the future will never serve everyone, only the majority or even some people, and we have never had superfluous hopes for true free trade without any prejudice."

When these words were uttered, there was an uproar at the scene.

What does this mean?

Star Technology doesn't care about markets other than East Asia?

In other words, do you like it or not?

Are they too confident in their own technology? !

Especially those Western reporters carrying cameras, many of them are completely sand-sculpted.

"This is... this is also an official response? What are they going to do?"

"Are they crazy?"

Like the media people who were in an uproar, the entrepreneurs present were also full of shock.

It's just that the meaning behind the shock is something completely different.

His pupils contracted and looked at the stage, and Musk's eyes flickered with excitement.

Although, like Zuckerberg, he is not optimistic about Xingkong Technology's public relations method this time, the information released in this sentence is undoubtedly the aftermath of the cold winter for businessmen who have fallen in with virtual reality technology. great news.

As the vast majority of Silicon Valley CEOs guessed, Xingkong Technology does not intend to engage in competition in the downstream of the industry chain. It intends to cede the interface to customers to the market, and only serves as a service terminal for cloud computing and interfaces to enterprises.

This means that if the virtual reality network enters North America, all companies participating in the ecosystem of the Phantom System can take a sip of soup from it.

And it's still drinkable.

"They must be crazy..."

Repeating the sentence, rubbing his fingers, Zuckerberg's eyes flashed with excitement.

Take back the previous point.

He finally understood where the real trump card of Xingkong Technology was.

Although reluctant to admit it, the fact is that it is impossible for the Phantom system to have a competitor in a short period of time. Regardless of whether other people are willing to accept such a reality, the Phantom System has the confidence that it cannot be replaced.

It is of course easy to refuse progress, it is enough to keep the technology out of customs.

However, when the virtual reality network outside has developed and matured, and local companies in North America want to enter this market, what they have to face is not just the shark of Xingkong Technology, but a group of...

In any case, no matter what other companies think, Facebook must not miss this opportunity to reshuffle the entire Internet industry.

Zuckerberg has made up his mind. After the press conference is over, he must find an opportunity to talk to people from Star Technology...

...

Regardless of whether Xingkong Technology is crazy or not, after the product launch conference, the high-tech companies who visited the scene have gone crazy, and the invited Western media have also gone crazy.

The madness of the former is because of the news released by Xingkong Technology in the product launch conference about finding partners to develop other regional markets, while the reason for the madness of the latter is because...

They were completely ignored.

Yes.

It's simply ignoring.

Whether it is the criticism of well-known psychologists in the CNN studio, or the parade of anti-virtual reality technology and anti-brainwashing devices on the streets of New York City, Star Technology seems to have not seen it.

Andrew, a well-known reporter of CNN, did not give them a separate attack on Xingkong Technology after the end of the product launch - oh no, he expressed anger at the opportunity of the interview, and exclaimed excitedly at the empty camera.

"I've never seen such an arrogant company, they don't care about the demands of the people of the world at all, they only know how to sell their bells and whistles. Starting today, I won't buy anything with the Star Technology label. Anything! I want everyone to unite and boycott this business, this evil technology and the organizations that use it!"

When he said this, Andrew's tone could be said to be impassioned, and even he was moved.

However, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

In fact, Xingkong Technology is not a production company, but an intellectual property company.

Boycotting Star Tech is easy.

It is only necessary to refuse mobile phones with lithium-sulfur batteries, new energy vehicles with lithium-air batteries, refuse to use wireless charging piles, and oppose the use of carbon-based chips by American semiconductor companies, or simply reject all electronic devices that use carbon-machine chips. The California under construction can use SG series superconducting materials and special radiation-resistant materials for fusion power stations, or simply refuse to use clean fusion nuclear energy...

In theory, as long as these are achieved, it is still very easy to drive Xingkong Technology out of their lives.

perhaps?

After the product launch on the day, the Western media, led by CNN, released reports about the product launch in a mocking tone almost to vent their anger.

However, just when they were ready to watch the joke, what happened next shocked the entire Western media world...

It's beyond everyone's expectations.

On social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, there has not been a huge wave of public opinion as they imagined.

At least, everything did not develop in the direction they imagined.

People are indeed protesting.

But in addition to the existing protests, more new protests are not for the purpose of boycotting, or against some non-existent brainwashing and evil.

But because Xingkong Technology did not announce the plan of "pushing the virtual reality network to their doorstep", those potential users who were looking forward to the introduction of this technology as soon as possible expressed their frustration by complaining. .

On the contrary, potential users who are included in the East Asia region are ecstatic.

The voice of excitement and celebration completely overshadowed the debate about "evil".

Although the supercomputing center in Jinling has not yet been completed, they have already seen the dawn of the virtual reality network.

In addition, including Facebook and other social platforms, many high-tech companies that originally held a neutral attitude seem to have become ambiguous in their attitudes on this matter, and they have begun to take the initiative to cool down the voices of those protests.

It was as if they had reached some ulterior secret agreement with those Chinese people.

However, this is not the place to really ponder.

What really worries, or even fears, the traditional Western media is that those who are really paying attention to this technology don't seem to buy them.

They are losing their influence.

They are losing their status as uncrowned kings.

Those rabble who were at the mercy of them, this time they don't care about them at all...