The AI strategy is a crucial part of the overall plan of "Step to the Stars", which is not even just a matter of the Star Group, but also part of the overall multinational cooperation plan.

According to the current fertility level, within 10 years, the overall population of the earth will exceed 7 billion, and the population in developed areas will not grow as negatively as before, and in the next 50 years, the population of this planet may explode, that is, it will be able to exceed the upper limit of 10 billion.

Therefore, although there are open and secret battles in various countries, on the whole, they are still striding towards the starry sky, and only those underdeveloped countries in the third world are still in ignorance and disputes.

Although it has the support of various countries, the Star Group cannot expect to solve everything, such as economic difficulties, yes, the Star Group is now also in financial difficulties.

Scientific research and development is extremely expensive, even though the Star Group has digital terminal products, game industry, film and television entertainment, cloud computing and other economic pillars, last year, the overall profit of the whole year has exceeded 100 billion US dollars, but the place to spend money is more.

This year, in the first quarter, the group's overall profit increased by 103% compared with last year, although this is the same as the first half of the year, there are too many investment projects, and there are no new products launched in the pillar products.

However, this is also worth worrying, and even the preparation for the tender offer with JD Mall this year has been temporarily abandoned.

Although if Yang Yi is willing to introduce external investment, any company under the group can sell for a large price, but Yang Yi will not do this, and now the group's strategy is to strive to put some products that have not been paid attention to before into the market.

For example, since the beginning of the summer, AI robots have frequently participated in various competitive activities from Go to football, and their results are also impressive, and if this development continues, the profit in the second quarter of this year is likely to be reversed.

Don't be afraid in the third quarter, generally the new products of Star Group are released in the first quarter or third quarter, and they are all hot-selling products, such as tablets, AR glasses, smartphones, game consoles and so on.

This year, it has reached cooperation with various home appliance brands to promote the "smart home" series of products, which is very popular in the summer.

Starry Sky's products have one characteristic: high price and excellent quality; Although it does not have the advantage of selling well at a low price, the profit is actually not reduced.

There is naturally a market for high-quality and low-cost products, but high-priced products also have their own market; Star's "smart home" either acquires production lines or adopts the OEM model, which is basically a cooperation with established enterprises.

Now there is another economic pillar in the starry sky that is rising, that is, the VR industry; All over the world, various industry giants have seen that the VR industry is the next outlet, which is even more than the current hot smart phone and the former personal computer outlet, can definitely give birth to a market value of more than one trillion dollars and hundreds of billions of dollars of market value of the industry, from Microsoft, Google to Amazon, Alibaba, Renren, Facebook, etc., are working towards this industry.

The first-mover advantage of Starry Sky in the VR field is really unshakable, especially Starry Sky VR glasses, which have now been sold to the second generation of Starry Sky VR glasses, can be said to be a mature product.

The only drawback is that the price is too high, the current price is 6999 yuan, although it comes with some free game products, but the sales are still not high.

In this regard, the Star Film and Television project began to settle on the VR platform, and now all the film and television dramas released by Star Film and Television will be converted into VR films, which is equivalent to an extra cinema line out of thin air for the film industry.

Starry Sky VR glasses, no matter how low the sales are, now the first and second generations add up to more than five million, which is five million theaters and five million potential audiences.

A film of good enough quality has tens of millions of extra box office out of thin air, and the cost of converting it into VR is millions of yuan, and the Star Virtual Reality Company also has subsidies for VR films, which is currently the full amount of the account, that is, the cost of the film and television company on demand with the Star VR glasses, and the Star Virtual Reality Company does not take a penny.

After this has one more theater, basically those films that do not support VR have been crushed by their strength, and those who can afford 6999 yuan equipment will definitely not care about a 19.8 yuan screening ticket.

Starry Sky VR Theater is allowed to be refunded, you can preview the 8-minute film, you can refund directly within 8 minutes if you are not satisfied, and you can't refund it if you exceed 8 minutes.

Therefore, the transformed VR films are basically full of plots, with the support of strength and group technology, the prospects of the star virtual reality company are now very good, so the opponents' days are worse day by day, and the technical threshold of this industry has been greatly improved, which is forced by the Star Group.

At the time of the first generation of products, a company once thought of a good way, folded it with cardboard, and then with the help of a smartphone, successfully realized a simple VR glasses, which even gave rise to the stock price.

Correspondingly, after promotion and publicity, compared with these shoddy products, the popularity of Starry Sky VR glasses has increased significantly, which also makes Starry Sky VR glasses withdraw from the second-generation products in advance.

Lying on the sofa and preparing a comfortable environment, Liao Liao put on his glasses, and after a short buffer wait, a thrilling high-altitude jump appeared in front of him.

Due to cost and profit considerations, most of the VR films that are now converted are "blockbusters", of course, there are some low-cost horror films that have become box office dark horses.

Before the launch of VR glasses, Star Group bought a large number of old films, and then converted, it is said that thousands of them were purchased, and a new film is released every week, and what Liao Liao is currently screening is a thriller called "Death is Coming 6".

After "Death is Coming 5", this series has been completed, but Star Film and Television purchased the VR copyright of this series, and after the first five parts were converted, the sixth part of this series was launched with good screening results.

This one is different from the first five, although the first five are converted into VR films, they are still fixed perspectives, just "pseudo-VR films", and this one is a real VR film.

Real VR films are characterized by free perspectives and immersive experiences, but there are also problems that are too free for directors to start.

Placing the viewer in a small room and a walking vehicle can better guide the user's attention, and at the same time save shooting costs, which is popular with many VR directors.

This film is based on the story of playing a tourist who experiences a roller coaster project, and is trapped in the air with several other supporting characters, and can only helplessly wait for the rescue to be distressed.

Liao Liao first followed the prompts, brought the bracelet, and linked, for VR films, the starry sky virtual reality company has very strict requirements, first of all, iris certification, and then the bracelet must be linked, which is to detect the condition of the human body to prevent accidents.

You also have to turn on the panoramic camera, and the intelligent security AI will take over the monitoring of the surrounding security.

After all, on this planet, anything can happen, and when you are in a daze, any disaster may come suddenly, not to mention natural disasters such as earthquakes that cannot be prevented, and there are also some unpreventable man-made disasters, such as living on the first floor, suddenly a car suddenly breaks into the house, this situation happens every year.

Liao Liao yelled excitedly, and did not stop until the plot of the film riding a roller coaster tumbling and looping had passed, at which time the roller coaster they were riding was stuck on the inside of the top of the ring track due to a malfunction, and they could only hang upside down and wait for rescue below.

Hanging upside down at a height of dozens of meters, you can see the ambulances and fire trucks roaring on the ground with a slight tilt of your head, but you can't see the movements of the people on the ground clearly, let alone hear what they say, people will easily fall into a desperate predicament, and no one can calm down and stay on it and wait for rescue.

Liao Liao shook his head and saw that someone seemed to be frightened into a mental disorder, and actually wanted to open the safety bar on his chest to release himself, although his reckless move failed because the seat belt was locked, but it still made people sweat for him; And many more people were still screaming one after another, as if they were in a screaming competition.

Immediately after that, they got the bad news, the ground restart failed, and they needed to wait for rescuers to come over for on-site repairs, and a mechanic got off the helicopter at this time, used a safety rope to hang himself on the track, and rubbed it over little by little, intending to repair the broken roller coaster on the spot.

However, the repair technician made a mistake and the roller coaster was directly restarted, and the mechanic was fortunate to have just hung his safety lock on the roller coaster, but his tools were scattered all over the sky with the operation of the roller coaster, and the people on the ground were running in panic at this time.

This thrilling scene was presented in front of Liao Liao's eyes, just now the mechanic was still in front of her, and said a word to her, at this time Liao Liao closed his eyes in fright, and didn't notice that the countdown to the 8-minute experience appeared in the upper left corner of the screen at this time, and only heard the exclamation in his ears and the sound of the wind when the roller coaster was running.

The rescue came twice, both failed, and the most thrilling time was halfway through the film, when a strong wind suddenly rose, and even thunder sounded in the sky, and lightning even struck in front of you.

In the end, although none of them died, the thrilling excitement brought by this film is not inferior to the plasma tablets with blood spilled and severed limbs flying; Human beings, as ground creatures, have a fear of the void in their bones, and this film is a starting point to comprehensively strengthen the "fear of heights" psychology.

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At the end of the video, taking off the headset according to the prompts, Yuan Yingying turned her head to look at Yang Yi and asked, "Little aunt, what if someone is afraid of heights?" ”

Yang Yi raised his hand at this time and said: "Fear of heights is actually nothing, most people have symptoms of fear of heights, at most they are scared to dizziness, nausea, and no appetite, and there is no danger to their lives."

As for those viewers with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems, we also have prepared emergency measures in advance, why bring this bracelet is to prevent this situation, before detecting a crisis situation in the human body, it will be prevented in advance, and the corresponding stimulation of weak bioelectricity can ensure that there will be no accidents. ”

Yuan Yingying quickly grasped the key point and asked: "In other words, something is still wrong?" ”

"When it was still the first generation of products, but it only scared a few, and at that time, compared to the current human group, the ability to bear it was still very fragile."

For horror and thriller films, scaring people into scaring people into accidents is actually a compliment, but basically after the popularization of the "new human" gene, this kind of thing has disappeared.

When the second generation of products was launched, it was even more mandatory to match the bracelet package, and it was okay not to buy it, and many films could not be screened without connecting the bracelet.

Yuan Yingying turned her head at this time and asked Andy, who was coming back to her senses not far away, "Sister Andy, what do you think?" Scary or not? ”

As soon as the words came out, she knew that Bai had asked, and the other party's cheeks were slightly red, his eyes were shining, and his face was full of aftertaste, not at all like he was frightened.

Sure enough, Andy shook his head and sighed with regret, "It's a little worse, it's not scary." ”

"It's really a pity, the plot is too pale, if a few fall to death, squeeze a few, crush a few, and finally even the audience will die together, it's almost a god, and the current plot is not as cruel and terrible as the real accident, it's a little too gentle."

Andy now has no mental distress from before, and his mental outlook is completely different from before, and he is not shy about thriller horror movies at all, but he still likes to watch them.

felt that only her heart was jumping, Yuan Yingying could only change the topic at this time and say, "Alas! I'm really sad for those theme park operators, and I don't know how much the performance will drop. ”

This is not alarmist, the "Death is Coming" series is very famous, and it has dealt a lot of blows to related industries.

For example, the civil aviation industry, the glasses surgery industry, and the racing industry, and this time, like the third generation, will form a dimensionality reduction blow to the roller coaster industry.

"It can't drop much," Yang Yi shook his head, "The scale of the screening is too different, and now the VR terminal is not 10 million, plus the related families, it will not exceed 30 million, and the impact is minimal." ”

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In Shanghai, in the family building of the Starry Sky Affiliated Middle School, there was an exclamation at this time, it was broad daylight, although the sound insulation was very good, but the high female voice could still be transmitted into the neighbor's house.

When Liao Yu opened the door, he heard this cry, and immediately bit his silver teeth, and without changing his shoes, he walked towards the place where the sound came from.

Liao Liao was seeing the thrilling scene, the second maintenance worker who came to the rescue had not yet hung the safety rope to the right place, the roller coaster suddenly started again, and the maintenance worker in front of Liao Liao was directly squeezed down by the roller coaster that had just started!

Did you fall and die? Liao Liao was so frightened that he didn't dare to open his eyes, and the VR headset was taken off at this time.

This frightened her screamed, and after a little relief, she saw that it was her mother with an angry face.

She jumped up all of a sudden, like a swimming fish, and rushed directly into her room, and before Liao Yu could scold, her daughter disappeared.

Angry, she ran to her daughter's door and shouted, "Liao Liao, you come out for me, do you know that it's embarrassing?" ”

"I just went to the restaurant to eat, I'm going to take a nap, I can't hear anything."