Chapter 495 Mirage 1.0 (5470)
"Fuck!"
"Fuck!"
"Fuck the grass!"
"Oh fuck!"
In the hall, more than thirty otakus and seven or eight fujoshis spontaneously uttered the first reflex words of the human language central system.
Even Wei Ao, who usually liked to make doggerel when he spoke, could only scratch his head and utter "Fuck".
They didn't notice that after the two words "Lei Ze", there was a bracket with the word "Ying" written in it.
What's this! ?
AR for augmented reality?
It’s AR! ?
The more knowledgeable people were, the more shocked they were. The most shocked was Zhu Yifei who just asked the question.
Because he is the best at this.
Linglan Games is a company that makes VR games specifically for Suo Dafa.
In the industry, there is a common understanding that AR is much more difficult than VR. The vice president of Suo Dafa who specializes in VR has publicly stated that AR is an order of magnitude more difficult than VR.
The so-called order of magnitude means ten times.
VR only needs to build a virtual space without having to deal with the complexity of real scenes, and both software and hardware solutions are relatively mature.
To put it simply, it is a small high-resolution display screen installed behind the lens, which is no different from a telescope with a screen.
Other functions such as motion capture and location tracking are just added functions to optimize the experience.
But AR is different. AR needs to accurately superimpose virtual information on real-world images, and needs to solve the implementation of environmental tracking, lighting matching, object occlusion... Almost every problem has no practical solution so far.
Currently in the AR field, there are only two products: Google Glass and pseudo-soft HoloLens.
Google Glass was released two years ago, but it only lasted for a little over a year, with the company announcing the cessation of research and development in January last year.
Microsoft's HoloLens is currently the most advanced AR device.
In June, Zhu Yifei got the development version of HoloLens as a developer and even recorded an unboxing video.
After trying it out, Zhu Yifei was amazed at the powerful performance of HoloLens.
Five days ago, Weiruan announced that HoloLens had officially entered commercial use, making it the first true AR headset product.
In Zhu Yifei's view, HoloLens is at least three to five years ahead of the industry.
Of course, this does not mean that pseudo-software will eventually become the big winner in AR. The limited computing power of the headset means that this thing can only be a big toy in the short term, and it is far from practical.
What’s even worse is that the development ecosystem and product ecosystem are basically blank, with neither suitable development tools nor developers.
The few applications that exist are all resource exchanges between PseudoSoft and other partners.
As for Google Glass, it is just a head-mounted camera. It is useless except for taking secret photos.
When Pocket Monster Go was released three months ago, Zhu Yifei couldn't help but applaud and exclaimed that this was the most realistic landing direction for AR.
Pocket Monster Go was locked in China. He was in Japan at the time discussing the project with Sochi. After downloading and using it from Japan's AppStore, Zhu Yifei discovered that Pocket Monster Go's AR was actually more of a gimmick.
When AR is turned on, players may not be able to catch monsters due to the unstable AR effect.
Except when showing off to non-players, most of the time, players will turn off AR, otherwise their blood pressure will soar by 180 when catching a monster.
But what on earth is this video that Yuzu Technology is playing now?!
True augmented reality?
No, this goes far beyond the general definition of AR in the industry!
At least from the video, the fusion of virtual images and the real environment is almost seamless, with almost no delay, and no ghosting, drifting or layering as the phone shakes.
Zhu Yifei was so shocked that the word "wow" got stuck in his throat and he couldn't say it. He just stared at the details of the picture frame by frame with his eyes wide open and holding his breath.
How is it possible to achieve such expressiveness?
Although the imagination and artistry of the environment and creature modeling are a bit lacking, these are just artistic issues. In terms of technology and details, he can't find any fault at all!
What’s even more outrageous is that it doesn’t even look like a headset like HoloLens, but is just using a phone’s camera to model the scene?!
Does the phone have enough computing power?
Not to mention Ren Tianguo, even the most powerful pointer game in the industry can't do it.
Pocket Monster Go is the best commercial AR game, but it is not the best in terms of technology.
The most technologically advanced AR game right now is The Machines, which uses real-time spatial modeling. However, this game currently only has a preview version and is not publicly available. The game's developer is Pointer Games.
Pointer Games did not come today, because strictly speaking, this company is not part of the Da Zhou gaming circle. The boss is Icelandic, but the company is located in Haipu, so it can only be considered a half-Da Zhou company.
Is this fucking video fake?
The water was rising, but before anyone could question it, they were shocked by the following scenes.
As the camera switched, the boy appeared on a lawn again.
The boy's mobile phone screen was like a sea of grass. Several savages in white feathered clothes were driving away tigers, leopards, black bears and other wild beasts, chasing a yellow animal that looked similar to a fox. The difference was that this fox had two antelope-like sharp horns on both sides of its back!
The fox ran around and seemed to have discovered the boy. It turned and ran towards him, making a chirping sound, then jumped up and landed on the boy's screen.
Two large cursive characters with flying ink exploded on the big screen with a loud bang - "Cheng Huang".
Then, the camera pulled up again, and a mark appeared on the light spot of the lawn on the map.
"Baek Min-won (film)"
The camera switches rapidly, in the mountains, in the community, in the shopping mall, in the library, on the hillside in the suburbs... Every time the boy appears in a place, a layer of subtle light and shadow is attached to the real image on the mobile phone screen.
And every place in reality, in the light and shadow of the screen, has become "Sanwei Mountain", "Yumin Square", "Water Skiing"...
At this moment, the images captured through the mobile phone screen seem as if the virtual world and reality are completely integrated.
Although it can still be seen that these lights and shadows are "produced" and the artistic level is very average, the technical level has far exceeded the imagination of everyone present.
In addition, each place name has a suffix "影".
The pace of the video suddenly became faster. On the screen, the boy was holding a mobile phone and appeared in various scenes in reality. And the yellow dragon was right there in his mobile phone, fighting with him in the virtual world of superimposed reality with various different creatures!
Shit! As expected, a pet system!
Is Youzi Technology trying to use the settings from the Classic of Mountains and Seas to make a game similar to Pocket Monsters Go?
Pocket Monster Go has become extremely popular in the past two months. Ren Tianguo's stock price has risen by 120% in ten trading days. Almost overnight, dozens of fraudulent games have appeared in the Google Play market.
But no major company has followed suit. After all, Ren Tianguo's Pocket Monster IP is naturally suitable for this theme. Except for Capcom's Monster Hunter, other major companies have no similar themes that can compete with Pocket Monster.
Monster Hunter is essentially an action game and is not suitable for the gimmick of AR.
Shan Hai Jing? That seems like a good idea.
Everyone in the venue had different expressions.
If these images are real, the game will definitely be a hit when it is released based on this technology alone, but the retention rate is hard to say.
After all, this kind of real-life AR game that requires running around is just a pet training battle. It is hard to say whether it can keep players staying.
Pocket Monster can be done because the game IP itself has collectible attributes.
In the past twenty years, animation, games, peripherals... have made this IP have a considerable base of loyal fans, and even each character and monster has a corresponding fan base.
Although Shan Hai Jing is a Chinese classic, it belongs to the cultural level, not the traffic level, and it really cannot compete with Pocket Monster in terms of commercialization.
The battle scenes switched quickly, and when they slowed down, the camera began to move away from the boy's mobile phone screen and move upwards.
A young man, also about seventeen or eighteen years old, appeared on the other side of the city street holding a mobile phone, and the two men's eyes met across the air.
And Cheng Huang in the boy's phone also made an angry and sharp roar towards a ferocious wild boar with small wings opposite.
The images of the two people suddenly stopped and the screen gradually turned black.
Is it over?
Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief and was about to raise their hands to ask questions, the speakers hanging from the ceiling rang again.
An old voice came from the speaker.
"Before the primordial chaos, the universe had no place, the four poles were not divided, and the six directions were boundless."
"In the Great Desolation, all things blend together, there is no distinction between realms, and gods and demons coexist."
?????
Is this... an introduction to the world view?
This game has a worldview?
Hearing the sound from the speakers, several people from Game Philosophy, especially Wei Ao and Sui Yi, couldn't help but look at each other.
This tune is exactly what they like.
The old man's voice continued to be heard from the speakers: "In an unknown number of years, the Taihuang suddenly split apart, the myriad worlds shattered, the heavens lost their order, and the remaining fragments are nowhere to be found."
“Some saints and sages may occasionally catch a glimpse of it, and they will record its scenery, record its gods and monsters, draw pictures of strange beasts, and write biographies, which are both real and imaginary and full of wonders.”
"But long separations must eventually bring them together. Now the stars are returning to their positions, shaking the ages. Many shattered worlds are falling into the present world."
"The first one to fall is called—Shanhaijie!"
!!!
The expressions of many people present changed.
The setting of this world view is quite interesting.
It is quite clever to use the return of the mountain and sea world to enhance the player's sense of immersion.
Wei Ao frowned, feeling that it was not that simple.
Especially the sentence "The first one to fall is named - Mountain and Sea Realm".
Could it be that...
The old voice in the speakers gradually faded away, and then, a burst of war drum sounds that started slow and then became faster and faster came from the speakers.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom..."
Then, the six large screens in the venue lit up again.
The camera quickly pulled up from an ordinary street in Haixi, and soon it reached an altitude of hundreds of thousands of meters, already out of the Karman line of the atmosphere.
The land of Da Zhou is clearly visible under your feet!
Afterwards, the camera was aimed at the misty area in the west of Da Zhou. The camera fell rapidly, and soon, a real scene of a towering mountain appeared on the big screen.
"Bayankala Mountains!"
Among the people present, there were those who loved hiking and recognized the mountain at a glance.
Golden lines flickered on the screen, first outlining the outline, and then the light and shadow gradually condensed, and a fairy-like palace appeared on the top of the mountain.
There are nine gates on each side of the palace, and on both sides of the gates, there are two monsters with nine human heads guarding the door.
Five golden characters appeared on the screen again: Kunlun Queen Mother Palace!
And this time, there is no suffix after the location.
What's the meaning! ?
There was an uproar among the seven or eight quick-witted game planners in the room.
Are they going to turn the entire Great Zhou into a real-life map?!
The picture changed rapidly, as if God was moving the globe, suddenly sweeping from the western plateau to the eastern hills.
"Qingqiu!"
Two white cursive characters appeared on the screen again, again without any suffix.
In the mountains and forests, where vegetation is lush, a huge white fox is lazily lying beside a small river, and behind it, it has nine tails!
The camera keeps moving across the land of Da Zhou, and wherever it goes, it is a presentation of real scenes plus AR!
Qingqiu, Chishui, Kuaiji Mountain, Jiyi Lake, Dan'er Kingdom... Almost every piece of land in the Great Zhou Dynasty corresponds one to one with the worldview of Shanhaijing!
How could the planners present not understand what this means after seeing this?
According to this worldview, those with "shadow" in their names might just be projections of the mountain and sea world before it fell.
As for how to play the "Shadow" map, it is either a novice village instance or a lightweight scene that takes on daily tasks.
And these maps of the entire Great Zhou without the suffix "影"... No, judging from what Youguo Games is saying, maybe they want to make the entire Blue Planet into a big map!
Is this large map the main map of the game?
Pocket Monsters Go also has a global map, but that is just a monster refreshed on the Google map, and then you use GPS to go to the location to fight the monster.
And this "Taihuang: Mountain and Sea Realm" really wants to overlay a virtual world on the real world!
How is this possible!?
However, the promotional video after the world view introduction is not shown from the perspective of the player’s mobile phone. Does this mean that the latter part is just the idea of Youguo Technology and has not yet been actually implemented?
That's not right. Even the previous part can't be true!
This is definitely a special effects video! It's definitely not a real machine demonstration!
Although the promotional video had not yet ended, many people in the audience could not wait to raise their hands to ask questions.
Among all the people present, Wei Ao had the most in-depth research on the subject of Shan Hai Jing. Just as he was about to raise his hand, he saw that the rhythm of the promotional video had changed again.
He is very sensitive to the camera, and every game trailer he makes is very well made, far better than the quality of the game itself.
As soon as he saw the change in the rhythm of the shots, he knew that the director of this promotional video must be up to something again.
There will definitely be a hook or something at the end.
The camera flew close to the surface of the blue sea, suddenly dived into the sea, and then continued to dive.
Beneath the pitch-black seabed, it seemed as if several golden threads were constantly twisting and moving. Through the faint light emitted by the golden threads, one could see an enormous pillar that seemed to be lying horizontally beneath the seabed.
The seabed around the giant pillar seemed to be a vague collection of broken walls and ruins.
Suddenly, the golden line seemed to move a little faster, and then, the light emitted by the golden line became brighter and brighter, and the giant pillar vibrated violently. Although the light had illuminated the seabed, the vibration of the giant pillar caused mud and sand to stir up, and the seabed became turbid. One could only see that the giant pillar seemed to be starting to stand up from lying horizontally!
The camera jumped out from the rapids on the seabed, rose quickly, and returned to the sea surface. The sea surface began to lose its calmness and set off huge waves.
Compared to the waves now, the huge waves of the "Shadow" Lei Ze in the park before were like those created by a Tsukuba machine in a swimming pool.
Amidst the huge waves, a giant pillar shining with golden light rose up from the bottom of the sea. Its bottom seemed to still support the seabed, while its end had already reached the surface of the sea!
Seeing this scene, Wei Ao and Sui Yi stood up at the same time, with excitement on their faces.
The magic needle that stabilizes the sea!
Anyone from the Great Zhou Dynasty who saw this scene wouldn't know what it represented!?
Journey to the West!
Youguo Games, have you started planning the second game before you even finished your first one?
And the second one is Journey to the West?
Integrate Journey to the West into the world of Classic of Mountains and Seas?
No, this is to integrate the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Journey to the West, well, maybe even more worlds, all into their worldview of "Taihuang"!
When the Dinghai Shenzhen, which had a diameter of hundreds of meters, stood upright in the middle of the sea, the picture froze completely.
The entire video was finally played.
As soon as this scene ended, the hall was silent for three full seconds, as if someone had pressed the pause button.
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Firstly, they were still in shock, and secondly, they all wanted to ask questions, but didn't know where to start or how to ask them.
The total collapse is questionable!
You can't just say: Mr. Fang, are you bragging?
"square……"
Wei Ao was the first to come to his senses. He raised his hand eagerly and just said the word "Fang" when he heard an Ezhou accent coming from across a few tables.
Hey, hey, hey? Why don't you have any sense of honor? I raised my hand, and you're still interrupting me?
Wei Ao glared in Zhu Yifei's direction, but Zhu Yifei was completely unaware.
"Mr. Fang, I'd like to ask, what engine do you use for 'Tainhuang: Mountain and Sea Realm'?"
"As far as I know, there is no other game engine that can produce a game like this."
"Or is this just a promotional video with special effects, not a real-game demo?"
Zhu Yifei has a round face and wears glasses. He looks like a middle-aged office worker with all his facial features wrinkled together like a bun.
Hearing Zhu Yifei's question, everyone nodded involuntarily, with a look of sudden realization on their faces, and focused their attention on Fang Yu.
After all, he is a big shot in console gaming, and he sees things very clearly.
Yes, there is no engine that can support this game.
Could it be possible that Youzi Technology could make an engine by itself?
Facing everyone's gaze, Fang Yu picked up the bottle of water, unscrewed it and took a sip.
"Mr. Zhu's online name is Tiger Boss, right?"
"You're right. There really isn't any engine currently that can support the production and operation of Taihuang: Mountain and Sea Realm."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Yifei raised his eyebrows and couldn't help revealing a look that said, "As expected, it's a special effect."
So, this time, I guess we're going to do some AR modeling?
Zhu Yifei was about to ask further questions when he saw Fang Yu grinning.
"Because there really isn't one, so..."
“We developed one ourselves.”
Developed one yourself?
Game engine?
Are you talking nonsense?
Seeing forty or fifty pairs of confused eyes in the audience, Fang Yu pressed the remote control and the six large screens switched to the keynote page.
"Because Unreal Engine 4 and Unity simply cannot support this level of computing, their support for AR is insufficient."
"Furthermore, we found that their rendering pipelines were too heavy, with high module coupling, resulting in significant performance bottlenecks when deployed on mobile devices. This made them unable to support our AR gameplay, which required dynamic environmental perception and real-time physical feedback."
"Their rendering mechanism is not suitable for our design requirements, which require multi-layer overlay, real-time integration of the real environment, and custom material fusion logic."
"The main thing is that in AR, their latency is so bad that we can't use them at all."
"So we simply wrote our own version of the engine and also made a set of corresponding development tools to help developers develop."
"And this is the world's first 'reality-based' AR integrated construction platform developed independently by Youguo Games, with layered rendering and environmental understanding capabilities.
"——Mirage 1.0."
After saying that, Fang Yu pressed the page turner and a page of keynote appeared on the screen.
(End of this chapter)
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