Shanghai International Convention and Exhibition Center.

The product launch of the Phantom Virtual Reality System was officially held.

For Musk, this is not the first time he has been here.

Standing in the hall with the invitation, just as he was about to go to the press conference, he suddenly noticed an acquaintance here.

This person is none other than Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook.

Some time ago, Facebook split the business and laid off Oculus on a large scale, which caused a stir on the Internet.

Now that he's here, Musk isn't surprised at all.

Even if nothing else, he is very likely to become his competitor in the near future.

"I didn't expect to see you here," a formulaic smile appeared on his face, and Musk held out his right hand, "It seems that today is a lucky day." ”

After shaking hands with Musk, Zuckerberg replied succinctly.

"Fortunately, I didn't expect it either."

Elon Musk: "Your expression seems to tell me that your mood doesn't seem to be very good. ”

Zuckerberg asked rhetorically, "Aren't you the same?" ”

Los Angeles has already erupted in a march against the introduction of the Phantom system, although 10,000 people want to cooperate with Star Technology, but in this kind of matter, Zuckerberg still has to cautiously shelve this plan, planning to wait and see for a while.

However, what he didn't expect was that, contrary to his caution, Star Technology seemed to not take the recent boiling public opinion on the Internet seriously, but chose to hold a product launch conference at this juncture.

This operation really surprised him.

If they choose to hold a product launch at this time, it will undoubtedly mean that they will face the surging public opinion.

And it's almost certain that those journalists wouldn't throw them a friendly question.

At least not for Western journalists.

"Haha, I'm average," Musk smiled at the acquaintance's rhetorical question, "Although virtual reality technology is very interesting to me, it is not enough for me to indulge in." Maybe he's important to Facebook, but for my Tesla and Space-X, it doesn't matter if it's there or not. ”

This statement is true.

Although he covets the benefits that this future technology may bring, it is just a tool for Musk to make money, and he is not as desperate as Zuckerberg is to get it.

Glancing at Musk, who was smiling a little gloating, Zuckerberg didn't say anything and turned around and walked towards the venue.

Musk didn't say anything either, just shrugged his shoulders and walked in the direction of the venue.

The product launch is about to begin.

One thing he shared with Zuckerberg was that he wanted to know what Star Technology, which was counting on a product launch to wash away all the dirty water on his body, was going to say here......

……

At the press conference, there was a crowd of people, and there was a black pressure as far as the eye could see.

Among those here are CEOs of well-known technology companies, as well as celebrities from academia or journalists working in the media.

At the beginning of the meeting, Ms. Chen Yushan, CEO of Star Technology, walked to the stage and announced the start of the product launch.

Surprisingly, the CEO lady did not seem to regard the recent heated discussion on the Internet as something important and put it at the top of the press conference, but put the two major focuses of the future work of the Phantom system at the beginning of the press conference.

Instead, there is a content rating system for virtual reality networks, and a new pilot program to accompany it.

According to the CEO, Star Technology will establish a virtual reality network grading system to determine the signals that users can receive from neural modems based on their age and users' choices.

In short, users under the age of 18 will not receive discord content, and users who have reached the age of 18 may optionally turn on receiving discord content as permitted by local laws and regulations.

At the same time, in order to improve the algorithm logic of the phantom system and better identify the appropriate part from the huge information, Star Technology announced the launch of the "main god" plan, recruiting 5-20 testers in the form of employees on all continents around the world to participate in this plan to help the phantom system complete this set of algorithm logic through deep learning methods.

As for the specific content of the experiment, Chen Yushan did not disclose it at the scene.

After all, that's not the point of the launch.

After briefly explaining these arrangements, she cleared her throat and continued in front of the audience and the camera in the back row.

“…… In addition, I learned that there are some false reports and rumors circulating on the Internet, as well as some concerns from ordinary people. ”

"From a scientific point of view, virtual reality is absolutely safe, it is like our second eye, it is just a tool we use to receive signals from the outside world, and it is not a substitute for our unique thinking."

"Of course, all people have the right to choose whether to evolve or not. As a technology company, we are only responsible for the future, and we are only responsible for providing better choices. ”

"As for what kind of lifestyle you choose, it's not up to us, it's up to the users themselves."

"The above is our response to the recent false rumors about virtual reality technology on the Internet, and the next is the key ...... of this product launch"

Sitting in the audience, looking at the CEO of Star Technology who was speaking on the stage, Zuckerberg couldn't help frowning slightly.

In terms of clarifying the negative news itself, such a statement is nothing.

Both solutions are given, and questions are answered.

But can this alone make the public let go of their wariness of the technology? Will they be able to convince the vested interests led by the White House to recognize the reality and accept the status quo calmly?

This is too much to underestimate the power of this technology......

To be honest, he is pessimistic about such a simple way of dealing with Star Technology.

However, the CEO standing on the stage continued to speak unhurriedly as if he had fundamentally ignored this.

"According to our company's development strategy."

"We will divide our global business into eight regions, establish supercomputing centers in each region to provide computing services for virtual reality networks, and expand the width of virtual reality networks based on supercomputing centers in each region."

"The site of the first supercomputing center in Jinling, China, will provide the computing power needed for virtual reality networks throughout East Asia."

"As for the business in other regions, we welcome other forward-thinking high-tech companies to join us in our efforts to promote the globalization of virtual reality networks."

"Of course, if you're not interested, we understand."

"After all, the future never serves everyone, only the majority or even some people, and we have never had any hope for free trade in the true sense without any prejudices."

When these words were spoken, there was an uproar at the scene.

What does this mean?

Star Technology is not located outside of East Asia?

In other words, do you like to use it?

They're too confident in their technology, right?!

Especially the Western journalists who carried the cameras, many of them were sand sculptures.

"It's ...... Is this an official response? What exactly are they going to do? ”

"Are they crazy?"

Like the media people who were in an uproar, the entrepreneurs present were also full of shock in their eyes.

It's just that the meaning behind the shock is something completely different.

Looking at the stage with his pupils constricted, Musk's eyes faintly flashed with excitement.

Although like Zuckerberg, he is not optimistic about Star Technology's public relations method this time, but the message released in this sentence is undoubtedly a great news after the cold winter for those businessmen who have made a mistake in virtual reality technology.

As the vast majority of Silicon Valley CEOs speculated, Star Technology does not intend to personally engage in the competition of the downstream of the industrial chain, and intends to cede the interface to customers to the market, and only do cloud computing service terminals and interfaces to enterprises.

This means that if the virtual reality network enters North America, all the companies participating in the Phantom system ecosystem will be able to take a sip of the soup.

And it's the kind that can be filled.

"They must be crazy......"

Repeating the words, rubbing his fingers, Zuckerberg's eyes flashed with excitement.

Retract the previous view.

He finally understood where the real hole cards of Star Technology were.

Although I don't want to admit it, but it is the case, in a short time there can be no competitors to the Phantom system at all. Whether others are willing to accept such a reality or not, the Phantom System has the confidence that cannot be replaced.

It's certainly easy to refuse progress, it is enough to just keep this technology out of customs.

However, when the virtual reality network outside has matured, and local companies in North America want to enter this market, they will have to face not only the shark of Star Technology, but a group of ......

In any case, regardless of what other companies think, Facebook must not miss this opportunity that is about to reshuffle the entire Internet industry.

Zuckerberg has made up his mind that after the press conference, he must find a chance to talk to the people of Star Technology......

……

Regardless of whether Star Technology is crazy or not, after the product launch conference, the high-tech companies who visited the site have gone crazy, and the Western media who were invited have also gone crazy.

The reason why the former is crazy is because of the news released by Star Technology in the product launch conference about looking for partners to develop other regional markets, while the reason why the latter is crazy is because of ......

They were completely ignored.

Yes.

It's just simple ignorance.

Whether it is the criticism of well-known psychology experts in the CNN studio, or the parade of anti-virtual reality technology and anti-brainwashing devices on the streets of New York City, Star Technology is as if it has not been seen.

Andrew, a well-known reporter for CNN, expressed his indignation at the fact that Star Technology didn't give them a separate attack at all - oh no, the opportunity to interview, and excitedly rebuked at the empty camera.

"I've never seen such arrogant companies that don't take the demands of the people of the world to heart and only peddle their bells and whistles. From today onwards, I won't buy anything with the Star Tech label on it! Any! I hope everyone will unite and resist this enterprise, this evil technology and the organization that uses it! ”

When he said this, Andrew's tone could be said to be impassioned, and even he himself was moved.

However, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

In fact, Star Technology is not a production company, but an intellectual property company.

It's easy to boycott Star Tech.

It is only necessary to refuse mobile phones with lithium-sulfur batteries, new energy vehicles equipped with lithium-air batteries, refuse to use wireless charging piles, oppose the use of carbon-based chips by semiconductor companies in the United States, or simply reject all electronic devices that use carbon machine chips, oppose the use of SG series superconducting materials and special anti-radiation materials for fusion power stations under construction in California, or simply refuse to use clean fusion nuclear energy......

Theoretically, as long as they do this, it will be easy to drive Star Technology out of their lives.

Probably?

After the end of the day's product launch, the Western media, led by CNN, released reports on the product launch in a mocking tone, almost in the form of anger.

However, just when they were ready to see the joke, what happened next shocked the entire Western media world......

It was a surprise to everyone.

On social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, there has not been a huge wave of public opinion as they imagined.

At least, everything didn't go their way they thought it would.

People are really protesting.

But in addition to the existing protests, more new protests are not for the purpose of boycotting, or against any kind of brainwashing and evil.

Rather, it is because Star Technology has not announced the plan to "push the virtual reality network to their doorstep", so that those potential users who are looking forward to the introduction of this technology as soon as possible express their frustration by complaining.

On the other hand, potential users in the East Asia region are ecstatic.

The voice of excitement and celebration completely overshadowed the argument about "evil".

Although the supercomputing center in Jinling is not yet completed, they have already seen the light of day to welcome the virtual reality network.

In addition, many high-tech companies, including Facebook and other social platforms, which were originally neutral, seem to have become ambiguous in their attitude on this matter. became obscure and began to take the initiative to cool down the voices of those protests.

It's as if they have reached some ulterior secret agreement with those Chinese people.

However, this is not the place to really think about it.

What really worries the traditional Western media is that those who are really concerned about the technology don't seem to be buying it.

They are losing their influence.

They are losing their status as uncrowned kings.

The rabble that were originally at their mercy didn't take them seriously at all this time......

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