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Chapter 135 Imagination About Shimmer

Suo Dafa's Kato and others rested in Beijing for two days, and then played for three or four days under the leadership of the employees of Ange Network. After almost a week, they officially entered the work of Ange Network.

As dispatched employees, they form a team of their own, and usually do not participate in the front-line development work, but act as supervisors, directly responsible to Chen Tiancai, and basically report to him if they want to do anything.

Chen Tiancai was very satisfied with this point. Suo Dafa obviously thought of the risk of delaying the cooperative studio by dispatching employees, so he designed this system of dispatching employees.

Since this exclusive work is still in the stage of project approval, the five of them are usually not too busy, and it can even be regarded as a vacation.

This time, Chen Tiancai directly rented an entire floor of the office, and then opened up all the rooms. In the end, the number of employees that could be accommodated could reach [-] to [-].

The decoration work of the office could not be completed until several years ago, so the recruitment work at this time is not so urgent, and the suitable personnel can be found slowly.

In the past two years, Zange Network has made a name for itself in China, so many experts have come to apply for the job.

Apart from gaming matters, good news also came from Guan Yu’s laboratory on the top floor.

A prototype with 'twilight' display technology at its core has been produced.

As soon as Chen Tiancai heard the news, he ran to see it. Although the equipment from the laboratory was still very simple, he was already very excited to see the half-real effect of the prototype of 'Shimmer'.

Even if it is only half, the realistic effect of this slightly bulky prototype is already amazing, basically reaching the 2k rendering effect of the mobile phone screen.

However, since this is the first generation prototype, its overall weight exceeds two kilograms, and it is obviously not suitable for civilian use.

And as the CPU part of this device, Guan Yu uses the most advanced AMD desktop processor. Judging from the laboratory data, the energy consumption is very alarming. It is impossible to insert a battery into this device and can only use a plug. .

The real body of 'Shimmer' is only a few centimeters long, which shows how much black technology is inside it.

But Guan Yu's current achievements have already satisfied Chen Tiancai.

It has been more than a year since the establishment of the laboratory, and now the finished product can be produced, which shows what kind of hard work Guan Yu has put in.

Judging from the technology that Guan Yu can refine so far, with the technology of 'twilight', it is already possible to move towards the production of a home console.

But Chen Tiancai calculated the cost a little bit, and found that the price of Guan Yu's prototype machine was very impressive, and he could buy twenty PS5s, so he had no choice but to give up this idea.

Judging from the characteristics of the "twilight" item, only a small and precise volume is suitable. Even if the volume of the prototype is not three or four centimeters, it is best to compress the overall equipment to less than ten centimeters.

According to Chen Tiancai's idea, "Shimmer" can be used in different fields with different volumes.

If the weight can be compressed to less than 250g, then it is the best choice to be a personal mobile device.

And if you want to use it in games, you need at least three core display devices to truly display an AR game world.

Comparing the technical level of the real world, Guan Yu told Chen Tiancai helplessly that if the 'Shimmer' is to be mass-produced, it will take five years to compress the volume of the equipment to about [-] centimeters.

Among them, the CPU is easy to say, and it is making good progress every year, but the current battery technology development is somewhat stagnant. If there is no new generation of high-efficiency batteries, "twilight" will never be used in personal mobile devices.

Therefore, if the 'twilight' technology wants to continue to develop, the laboratory must expand some personnel, it is best to be able to study the CPU and battery part of the 'twilight' blueprint.

Chen Tiancai immediately agreed to Guan Yu's request, and all the staff's requests were decided by him, which is why he kept making money these days.

In the entertainment industry, those who create content will never be as powerful as those who provide platforms.

The reason why Apple's mobile phones are top-notch is because of its technology and its own operating system. Needless to say, how much profit the hardware makes, its system platform alone brings it a sea of ​​income every year.

Chen Tiancai not only wants to revolutionize the game industry through "Shimmer", but also wants to revolutionize the smart mobile device industry.

The mobile phone industry has progressed from the era of feature phones to the era of smart phones. It is undoubtedly a big step forward. Chen Tiancai will never forget the moment when Jobs took out his iPhone, because only such products are worthy of pursuit by people who love technology. of.

After more than ten years of development, although smart phones have made great progress, in Chen Tiancai's view, they have fallen into the last generation of feature phones, and more and more cameras seem to be the biggest selling point.

The overall framework is still the same as it was more than ten years ago, and it has hardly changed.

Chen Tiancai has seriously thought about what kind of games can be developed with smartphones, and then he feels that the current smartphones are difficult to meet the conditions for large-scale game development.

Fortunately, he had 'Shimmer', a gadget with epoch-making capabilities, which pointed out a clear path for him.

Compared with developing a game console device with "twilight", a portable smart personal device is more tempting, because in the era when everyone uses a smart phone, it is obviously more difficult to carve out a way out in this industry. The outlook for gaming consoles is even bigger.

Judging from the usage scenarios, smart portable devices have more uses than game phones, and a game console is designed for playing games after all, and requires a lot of game content to fill.

So after thinking about it for a while, Chen Tiancai felt that even if the "Shimmer" game console comes out, with the current capabilities of Zange Network, it can produce at most two games within a year, and it is completely impossible to open up this market.

And the content of the original host market has long been occupied by Yusanjia, who own the platform and content, they will definitely not sit back and watch Zange Network use the "twilight" host to invade their own territory, otherwise Zange Network will be regarded as a spoiler be driven out of this market.

This kind of situation where bad money drives out good money will definitely happen, so Chen Tiancai can only hope that mobile smart devices will come out first.

Although mobile smart devices are extremely popular at present, no matter which platform, there are all the functions on it, and third-party software providers will not deliberately ignore which platform.

Compared with game consoles with a limited market, the annual output of smartphones is the largest. Now the annual shipments of smartphones worldwide have basically entered a stage of decline, so this industry definitely welcomes an innovative product. of.

Therefore, as long as Chen Tiancai can come up with technology, it will undoubtedly win the welcome of the entire manufacturing industry chain.

Chen Tiancai doesn't care about the possible competition from big foreign companies, because his country is now the world's largest manufacturing country, and the production of 'Shimmer' doesn't need foreign products at all.

(End of this chapter)