561 VR + eCommerce (1/2)
Chapter 561: VR + eCommerce
Translator: _Min_Editor: Rundi
The Fishbone's software development department had been meeting the software development demand in the modern world. In the short-term, it is feasible, but inefficient from a long-term perspective. While the apocalypse didn't lack talents with an incredibly low cost of labor, it is gated by population.
Future Group is constantly expanding, but the software development team only grew by less than ten people in the apocalypse.
Take the developed Godly Land for example. The development of the world virtual reality MMORPG took nearly one year based on the developed content before the war. Based on the stats given by Du Yongkang, with the standard of a development studio before the war, the content update and maintenance of the game of the large-scale RPG would take at least fifty people.
Jiang Chen didn't tell him that the MMORPG may potentially have over one hundred million players since only Future Technology offered the immersive virtual reality MMORPG. Based on the large player base, in order to ensure the game content was interesting, the project team would without a doubt be bigger than 500 people.
The number was not an exaggeration at all. Take Blizzard's bloated development team for example. A high-quality MMORPG would take a lot of people to maintain. Even ifpossessed artificial intelligence to assist the allocation of game storage, basic artificial intelligence's limitation in creativity meant that some things couldn't replace human labor.
Because of this, the release of the development tool will come eventually. Only if more people knew how to develop the virtual reality software could Future Technology hire more programmers to support the virtual empire he established.
But the release of the development software can't be rushed. At least until Future Technology's core possessed a technical advantage.
Half a year ago, when Future Group's building finished construction on Coro Island, he moved some of the core technical team to Xin to receive training on the VR development tool ”virtual 4.0” and VR image processing software ”pictogram 2.1”.
But the troublesome part was, while the interfaces of the program software were friendly to use, to the people without any experience in this field, it was difficult to comprehend. The result of the training was obvious, they took half a year of time before Future Technology's technical core finally gained some understanding and reached a beginner's level.
It would at least take another half a year to one year before they could master the software.
Because of this, to ensure Future Technology's competitive advantage in this field, the publishing of the software must be delayed for at least half a year. In this half a year, Jiang Chen must depend on the programmers on the wasteland to help in developing the software he needs.
With two proposals in hand, Jiang Chen temporarily returned to the apocalypse.
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It was already late into December; Wanghai on the wasteland was covered by snow and stood gracefully.
When Jiang Chen just returned to the Fishbone base, holiday spirit still lingered in the air.
With ample resources, the quality of life of NAC people gradually got better.
Although Christmas was not a statuary holiday for the PAC, people before the war would usually do something on this day. With the idea ”the year has almost passed by, it's rare to have a few peaceful months, so let's do something to celebrate”, Miss Generous took out the frozen meat near its expiration date and announced the second BBQ party would be held on Christmas Day!
Therefore, a bunch of people who don't believe in Jesus Christ celebrated the spirit of the holiday on this cold day while praying to the higher being they know doesn't exist ”long and prosperity to the NAC”.
”Yo, pervert, you're back? Only if you were back a day earlier. Yao Yao baked a giant turkey yesterday.” Lin Lin who was reading manga on the sofa was dangling her slim legs leisurely.
The radiators in the winter almost made people feel sluggish.
”If you keep calling me that name, be careful. I might actually eat you one day.” Jiang Chen sighed at the bad mouth girl that turned into a useless being.
[This doesn't feel like the apocalypse at all.]
Lin Lin oddly didn't rebuttal back. Jiang Chen noticed she covered her face with the manga book.
”Manga… Sixth Street sells these now. Where is Sun Jiao?” Jiang Chen looked around in the living around and discovered only Lin Lin was there.
”Sister Sun Jiao should be at the community center now. When you're not here, she has been doing the work you should have been doing.”
While touched emotionally, Jiang Chen looked at Lin Lin in surprise.
Lin Lin was embarrassed by the way he was looking at her and blushed. Then she moved the manga even higher.
”Why are you looking at me like that?”
”Nothing, I'm just impressed that even Lin Lin knows how to take care of people now.”
”Hello! What do you mean? Did I not know how to take care of people before?!”
Before Lin Lin threw her manga book in his direction in embarrassment, Jiang Chen put down the pudding and left.