Yannan.

Zheng Li, a medical college student, was browsing the Internet after studying that day.

The long vacation in October did not relieve the fatigue of studying. In November, late autumn, the weather in Yannan was already very cold. After eating in the cafeteria, Zheng Li hurried back to the dormitory, turned on the computer, watched a few videos, and checked the news.

At this time, Zheng Li saw a message.

[Silent Media will launch its first self-developed digital entertainment device in January]

Seeing this news, Zheng Li suddenly recalled the news he had seen before.

Lu Ban’s Silent Media invested in a coastal game company.

Zheng Li had never heard of any games from this game company. He read what others said at the time that this company seemed to be okay, but was actually on its way out, and the game consoles it produced were not very good either. Lu Ban was really wasting his money.

As we all know, Lu Ban is a film director, and movies and games are two completely different categories. Although many game producers like movies and try to create works with cinematic narratives, the game itself still has to be fun. Many people are not optimistic about Lu Ban's cross-border move.

But even if they are not optimistic, most people will not say it out loud.

After all, the last time, the time before that, and several times before that, Lu Ban had slapped them in the face.

The only ones who jump out at this time are marketing accounts trying to take advantage of the popularity. People in the serious gaming circle won't say anything nonsense.

As for opening champagne in advance, everyone was a little hesitant.

Lu Ban is very good at shooting movies, but movies are works that are completely controlled by the director. The audience can only see what he lets them see. He can ensure that everyone sees exactly the same thing. Although their understandings may be different, the quality of presentation is the same.

Games are different.

Except for those e-novels that have no options and only text and pictures, most games still have elements of strategy and operation.

This results in some people playing the game very smoothly and being able to experience exactly what the game production team wants players to experience, while some people cannot operate the game properly, suffer terribly, and finally refund the game with hatred, and some people are so good at operating the game that nothing they do seems interesting.

Sometimes even bad luck can become a reason for bad reviews. For example, some people will criticize the production team for thirty pages because they did not get the character they wanted after drawing cards hundreds of times in the game, while the person next to them got it in one draw.

The degree to which the gaming experience varies from person to person is even stronger than in other genres.

So, during this period of time, everyone kept quiet and didn't pay much attention to Lu Ban's affairs. Even Zheng Li almost forgot about it.

He quickly clicked on the message to check the content.

"...According to Lu Ban, this gaming device will set off a revolution in the field of game consoles and will overturn the gameplay of all existing games. He said that this gaming device, codenamed [Morning Star], will not only be a breakthrough in the history of games, but will also be a breakthrough in the entire modern electronic entertainment..."

After reading the news, I found that most of them were praising this new device. Although there were no photos, no actual machine pictures, and no related game platforms, it seems that this game console will be epoch-making.

"Is it really that amazing?"

To be honest, if the relevant media just talked about the development progress or something like that, Zheng Li would still think that this game console might be worth looking forward to.

Now that he was speaking so confidently, Zheng Li was a little worried that Lu Ban would not be able to come to the stage.

Look at what this is talking about, it will set off a revolution in the field of game consoles, subvert the way all existing games are played, and it will be a breakthrough in modern electronic entertainment as a whole.

This is an exaggeration.

Zheng Li racked his brains but couldn't understand what Lu Ban was going to develop. It couldn't be a tube in the back of the brain.

He feels that only a tube in the back of the head can change the current landscape of the gaming industry.

Zheng Li visited several online groups and Weibo and found that, except for a few fanatical supporters of Lu Ban, most people were not optimistic about Lu Ban's new equipment.

Or rather, this is the attitude of the Chinese people.

If you tell them that this thing is invincible and excellent, most people will argue with you regardless of their personality. But if you give in a little and say that although this thing is good, it still has this or that shortcoming, they will believe it and think it is good.

Now, Lu Ban’s publicity and promotion are all moving towards super excellence, so naturally everyone does not have that kind of confidence.

Even Shi Ming, who was in charge of the development, felt it was a bit risky.

Although Shi Ming had experienced this virtual helmet code-named "Morning Star", he was amazed and thought that this helmet was indeed epoch-making, and he even dared not imagine it.

But on the other hand, Shi Ming has not experienced any specific games yet, and he remains skeptical about how to play this kind of virtual device.

Although Lu Ban is now the wholly-owned boss of the company and Shi Ming is at best an employee, Shi Ming still loves games. He believes that this kind of technology that is ahead of its time would be a waste if it cannot be turned into excellent software.

In the history of games, there are many examples of games saving hardware, just like God of War and Monster Hunter saved the PSP. It is also common to see game consoles that have only functions but no content and died suddenly, such as the Sega DC, which has a three-foot-high grave.

Lu Ban’s virtual reality helmet is definitely the most advanced technology available today, but how to implement the gameplay of the accompanying games is worth discussing.

The first is the issue of image quality and resolution.

The "resolution" of the human eye is as high as hundreds of millions of pixels. At this resolution, the texture materials of today's games are even more jagged than jagged teeth. Normally, players make fun of the ancestral picture quality, which makes your face look blurry. But when it comes to virtual reality devices, even the games with the highest picture quality now are all mosaics.

If the picture is blurry, the sense of immersion will be worse. No one would have the bold idea to say that a lump of something is a beautiful girl.

The DEMO that Lu Ban showed was the universe, a scene that was hard to tell whether the picture was good or not. Only the human body was pretty good, but it was far from enough.

Secondly, virtual reality has expanded the gameplay a lot, which means that the player's freedom must be improved. In the past games, no matter how the player operated, it was still presented under the system's instructions. But now, players must operate it by themselves. It is still unknown whether the gap in between will become a threshold for playing.

For example, can a man weighing 300 kilograms run and jump easily in the virtual world? Can the physical fitness of a 100-meter sprinter be presented in the game? Whether such problems that have never been considered in previous games can be solved is also the key to Lu Ban's success.

Finally, apart from these technical issues, Shi Ming knows that the success of this device still depends on whether the games are fun.

After all, this is a gaming console.