Chapter 422 (1/2)
Mei Tuo was holding the enhanced version of the second-generation space box she had just got, and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.
He gently tapped the alloy surface of his helmet with his pipe, making a crisp sound, like a wind bell in the wind.
”The sound may make you think it's fragile, but in fact it's strong enough!” said the professor excitedly. ”If you throw it off the roof of the laboratory building, you can't break it!”
”Professor, why use such advanced materials?” Mei Ziqing was puzzled. ”I saw the cost table. The most expensive part of the helmet is the shell and its supporting materials! If we use ordinary alloy materials, we can save at least 30000 US dollars for each helmet.”
”Child, don't worry about money. We have a lot of money, and it's still increasing.”
Mei Ziqing said stubbornly, ”but we need to promote the game project as soon as possible. If each helmet is 50000 US dollars and 10000 players are developed, we need to invest 500 million US dollars, and our goal is one billion users!”
The professor laughed, his hard and fluffy hair exploded, and trembled with his laughter: ”poor honest boy, who told you that we are going to give the helmet to the player for free?”
Mei Ziqing Qi said: ”didn't you occupy the market for free at the beginning of promotion?”
”No, no, only garbage will be free, and real good things will not be free!” Bian Ziyuan said, ”Many products are free in order to occupy the living space of competitors. Once they occupy the market and form a monopoly, they will charge higher fees and earn back the early losses. Our helmets are unparalleled and have no competitors; our games are unparalleled and have no competitors. Why should things without competitors be free?”
”But this is not a necessity! If it is not a necessity, it is necessary to spend money to cultivate the market. Even if you are unique, users can choose not to use it.” Mei Ziqing argued.
”Well, opium is not a necessity, and it has never been free. Users can choose not to use it, and all governments do not encourage people to use it, but the sales of opium have never worried traffickers,” Bian Ziyuan said.
”Opium is addictive, not counting!”
”Games are addictive, too.”
”You mean yourself, game maniac!”
In fact, he also wanted to know why the professor used such expensive materials to make helmets. Fifty thousand dollars a pair, which is not affordable for ordinary people. Such an expensive price really shut out most ordinary people.
Mei Tui said happily: ”Do you know how complex the structure of the space box is? The counterfeiting of our first generation products exceeded US $20 million. Up to the second generation, the volume has been reduced so much, but the functions have been added a little. This puts forward high requirements for materials. You know, the space box is not only a VR helmet, but also contains several biographies in it The sensor is so simple. It needs to carry a person's consciousness and all memory to create a new world. The consciousness of game players is the master of the world. They first create the world in this box, not on our server. Therefore, the amount of information carried in the box is incredible, just like our human brain. ”
The professor pointed to his fluffy white haired head. ”Do you know how much information the human brain can store?”
Bian Zi is not very familiar with biology, but because he studies artificial intelligence, he has a certain understanding of the brain and nerve center ”At present, the information storage mechanism of the human brain is not very clear, which should be different from that of the computer. Whether we use the information that a single neuron can store multiplied by the number of neurons in the brain, or use the connection mode of human neurons to represent information, we can't estimate the information storage of the human brain. At least so far, no one has found him My brain is full and I can't remember anything. ”
Mei nodded: ”You're right. It's just long-term memory information. There are genetic information and genetic information. Although science can't prove them now, we never deny their existence. We even think that their amount of information is larger than our lifetime memory. Although it has been controversial where these information is stored, our consciousness always needs to mention it through our brain Take, will eventually be transformed into the brain's long-term memory. ”