When Musk finally made up his mind to find Star Technology, he found that he was still a step slower after all.

To his surprise, the first to react was Zuckerberg, who he once thought would try his best to prevent Star Technology's virtual reality technology from landing in North America.

By the time his secretary reported the matter to him, this cunning old fox had already taken his own Facebook to split the business of its subsidiary OCUS, laid off more than 2,000 employees, and only retained the core employees in charge of the main business.

Prior to that, when Facebook announced its $2 billion acquisition of OCUS in 2014, it was widely expected to be Facebook's move to pay for the future.

I have to say that such an ending is really embarrassing.

In fact, Zuckerberg was also forced to do it.

Maybe give OCUS enough time to gradually improve the head-mounted virtual reality technology, and maybe there will be an immersive virtual reality technology that can achieve somatosensory 99 simulation one day.

However, when he saw that Star Technology had brought the technology he had dreamed of to the product launch, he knew clearly in his heart that he no longer had the opportunity to take his time.

Rather than letting OCUS drag Facebook to fight a battle that is almost impossible to win, it is more important to fulfill its ambition to dominate the virtual reality field and hold on to its core business.

He knows exactly what really matters to Facebook, and what is just the icing on the cake.

Zuckerberg's family business is big, and he can afford to lose a mere $2 billion, and over the years, Facebook has paid more than $2 billion in fines issued to it by various countries.

However, for other virtual reality startups in Silicon Valley, it was a nightmare. It's as if we have just passed the early spring of March, and we have stepped into the cold winter of Layue, without any preparation, and we can't even see the slightest hope of getting through.

Just when the virtual reality concept startups in Silicon Valley were crying wolf, there were already many smart people like Zuckerberg who found Star Technology and began to discuss cooperation.

If the general trend is unstoppable, it is undoubtedly better to follow the trend.

At least in the absence of other technologies that can be substituted for the Phantom system, or that can bypass the patent barriers set by Star Technology on virtual reality technology, the risk of cooperating with Star Technology is far less risky than finding another way.

This is the same situation as when Microsoft slaughtered the PC market with its graphical S system.

The only difference is that Star Technology not only holds the world's first neural access operating system based on virtual reality technology, but also is the holder of virtual reality technology patents......

It's not just the tech world that's causing shocks, it's also the global financial community.

While shocked by the advancement of virtual reality technology, almost all companies in finance-related industries are evaluating the possible impact of this newly born technology.

Because Star Technology, like most companies with good capital and operating conditions, did not choose to go public to make money, there is no way to give a valuation that meets everyone's expectations through the market.

However, according to the assessments of major financial companies on Wall Street, the virtual reality business alone has a valuation of more than 100 billion US dollars, and the future appreciation is expected to be immeasurable.

And this is a conservative estimate based on a lack of understanding of the specific business model.

If it is really as many people speculate, Star Technology intends to take cloud computing as its main business, integrate all the future virtual reality networks into one or more supercomputing centers, and promote hard or soft payment projects......

The value behind this, let alone 100 billion.

It's not even something that money can measure at all......

Although the product launch conference of Star Technology satisfies the curiosity of the general public to a certain extent, for this technology that is about to bring earth-shaking changes to human society, a product launch conference is obviously not enough.

Many questions remain unanswered, and journalists from all over the world want the opportunity to interview Lu Zhou.

However, no matter how many reporters tried to infiltrate Jinda, or even avoid the security guards to infiltrate the number theory class, they could not find any trace of Academician Lu.

During this time, his whole person seemed to have disappeared, out of sight.

And only those who have a different relationship with him know that he is in retreat for a great work.

At the same time, at a time when the whole world is crazy about virtual reality technology, a paper published in "Mathematical Inventions" has also caused a strong response from mathematicians around the world.

In this paper, through an ingenious mathematical method, the sub-structure corresponding to the upper cohomology ring is obtained, and all the upper cohomology theories are combined to form an abstract geometric object.

And as we all know, otive theory studies the abstract meaning behind numbers.

From this point of view, Lu Zhou, who has just solved the Riemann conjecture, does not seem to be satisfied with this crown that has stood in the mathematical world for nearly two centuries, but has gradually penetrated into the core field of algebraic geometry, that is, to study the geometric structure hidden behind numbers.

This is not just the pursuit of mathematicians, but has even risen to the level of philosophy and even theology.

If he succeeds, he will undoubtedly become the greatest scholar since the time of Archimedes.

If you want to find someone whose achievements can be comparable to him, I am afraid that you can only wait in the long years ahead.

In addition to this topical paper, what makes many people even more concerned is that the reviewer of this paper is actually Perelman, who has retired from mathematics for many years.

This hermit, who once domineeringly refused a million-dollar prize and publicly stated that he had been disappointed in the current mathematical community, actually accepted the invitation to review "Mathematical Inventions"?

In the eyes of the vast majority of scholars, this is unbelievable.

Anyone who knows him knows how much he "hates" the "arrogant" review model of academic journals, with almost every paper published in ARXIV and communicated with his younger peers in the form of open discussions.

So much so that in places he didn't know, he had even become a role model for the "folk mathematicians" on ARXIV.

Of course, even if the surprises of all of them are combined, I am afraid that they will not be more surprised than Lu Zhou himself.

It's not because of my own reviewers.

But on the third day of the paper's publication, Lu Zhou, who had finished his retreat, came to the office and planned to go to the classroom to teach the undergraduates in person for the first time in a long time, but an unexpected person stood at the door of his office.

Looking at Perelman, who was expressionless, Lu Zhou, who was holding a textbook under his elbow, was slightly stunned and didn't speak for a while.

Perelman: "What's wrong? ”

“…… Nothing, just a little bit unexpected. Coming back to his senses, Lu Zhou coughed lightly and said, "I think any mathematician in this world would be surprised to see Perelman standing at the door of his house...... Why didn't you send me an email? I'll have someone pick you up at the airport. ”

"Isn't this a university?" Perelman frowned, but instead glanced at Lu Zhou with a strange expression, "Do you have to send an email in advance when you come to the university to exchange academic issues?" ”

"Of course not, but I think it's still necessary to visit specific people...... Of course, I just don't care," Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Can you satisfy my curiosity?" What made you decide to get out of the house? ”

Looking at Lu Zhou, Perelman replied succinctly.

"Mathematics."

"One of the things that I found interesting in my research on your paper is that when you abstracted the theory of cohomology into geometric objects, you mentioned the high-dimensional analogy of the Jacobian that looks at otive as a curve, and I wonder why you did that."

Lu Zhou shook his head and said: "Actually, this is not exactly my idea, I have seen something similar in the manuscript of Professor Grothendieck's research on the Wey conjecture, so it has some inspiration"

"Can you teach me?"

Looking at the fanatical expression in Perelman's eyes, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned, and then said with a smile.

"Yes, yes...... But there's a number theory class in a moment, and I'm afraid I'll have to wait until after four o'clock before I can discuss this with you. ”

Looking at Lu Zhou sincerely, Perelman said indifferently.

"It's okay, I can wait!"