It's clearly not just consumers who are crazy.

Far away on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Silicon Valley, watching this "carnival" happening on the other side of the ocean, everyone is about to cry.

I don't know how many American consumers flew to China to attend the press conference, and in the past two days, almost three out of every ten messages on Facebook and Twitter are discussing the HV-1.

There is almost no doubt that if this thing is introduced to the United States, it will inevitably set off a new round of revolution in the Internet industry. More than 90% of Internet users will be willing to pay for this not particularly expensive technology!

In the building of Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Zuckerberg was reading the report handed by his secretary and his heart was beating hard.

On the one hand, it is because of the stimulation, and on the other hand, it is naturally red-eyed.

At the end of last year, they just completed the spin-off of their VR company, Oculus, for the development of virtual reality devices, and a little later the entire virtual reality business was smashed into their hands.

As for the red-eyed eyes, it is needless to say that it is impossible not to be red-eyed when seeing the sensation caused by this immersive virtual reality technology in the Chinese market, as well as the envious eyes of North American consumers.

Just then, there was a knock on the door outside the office.

Closing the report in his hand, Zuckerberg nodded to his secretary and motioned for her to go outside and pour himself a cup of coffee, then cleared his throat and spoke.

"Please come in."

The door opened, and a middle-aged man with gold-rimmed glasses and thinning hair walked in.

"I don't quite understand what you mean," the man said with his hands on the table and in a somewhat excited tone, walking straight in front of Zuckerberg, "The HV-1 helmet has been successful across the sea, proving that there is a huge market for immersive virtual reality devices, and yet you cut off our R&D department!" I don't understand what you think?! ”

Standing in front of Zuckerberg and complaining was none other than Dr. Sangadi, the chief technology officer of Oculus. As early as nearly a decade ago, he led the R&D team at Oculus to lay out the future for Facebook.

However, what happened these days almost made him angry with his heart attack.

The entire R&D department has been laid off, and Oculus is left with nothing left but the entire company structure remains intact, with a few measly patents in hand, and the occasional "old-time" VR glasses sold to satisfy users.

"Don't get excited."

In the face of Sangadi's questioning, Zuckerberg smiled slightly, handed the doctor a glass of water, and watched him take a sip before calming down his breath before continuing unhurriedly.

"If I give you a year, how sure are you that you can defeat Star Technology, bypass their patent barriers, and use the neural access VR device you originally developed to occupy the North American market before them?"

Listening to Zuckerberg's pointed question, Sangadi's momentum froze slightly.

Although he wanted to bluff, in the face of the boss's eyes, he finally didn't mention the courage, and was silent for a while, barely squeezing a word out of his mouth.

“…… Hard. ”

Even if he doesn't want to admit it, it's a truth.

If the gap is not large, there is still a possibility of catching up. However, the current situation is that no company in Silicon Valley has mastered the core technology of the phantom system launched by Star Technology, and has not even touched the door.

In fact, it is impossible to grasp it at all.

In addition to the hardware, people don't even need to register patents in software, and all computing is done in the cloud.

Now there are only two options for companies that want to make virtual reality hardware, either give up this idea completely, or be honest and join the standards they have developed, produce VR headsets that are fully compatible with the phantom system, and honestly put a "star tax" on each VR headset.

"But...... Are we just watching those Chinese snatch the whole market out of our noses? ”

It just so happened that the secretary who went out to make coffee came back.

Hearing this question from his subordinates, Zuckerberg just smiled, took the coffee from his secretary's hand, and took a sip before speaking.

"It's impossible to steal the whole market, then they won't be able to get in, they will have to enter the American market sooner or later, and we can seize this moment and get a piece of the pie from them. While I understand your anxiety, we're too far behind in VR technology to go head-to-head with them right now...... After all, Facebook is our core business, isn't it? Mr. Sangadi. ”

Sangadi's throat moved, trying to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

The reason why they sold their stake in Oculus to Zuckerberg in the first place, along with other partners, was because they believed that this visionary tech leader would lead them into the future.

Unexpectedly, their opponent had just shown his fangs, and the president, whom he respected, turned around and slashed at his own people, giving up the technical route they had been studying for many years.

Although he also knew that this was understandable, and he had his own problems in not coming up with convincing results, such an ending still made him feel like he was dripping blood.

Not caring about the heart-wrenching expression on Sangadi's face, Zuckerberg continued to pick up the report on the table and looked at it twice, then suddenly spoke.

"I've heard that the Phantom system is highly dependent on internet speed?"

“…… It seems that there is such a statement, after all, the phantom system is mainly based on cloud computing technology," Sang Jiadi hesitated, "As far as Warwick's HV-1 helmet is concerned, the access scheme they use is mainly their own Warwick HiSilicon's self-produced communication baseband to achieve the connection to the virtual reality network. In terms of compatibility, it is also mainly optimized for their own routers, communication base stations and other hardware devices. ”

Zuckerberg touched his chin, and his eyes suddenly began to twinkle with a different light.

"If we can help their equipment get into North America."

"It can't be!" Sangadi looked at Zuckerberg with a strange expression, "Communication hardware has always been the most sensitive piece, the Department of Commerce will not agree, take 10,000 steps back and agree, the White House and Congress will do everything possible to exclude them." ”

"I know it's difficult, but ...... It's not hopeless, is it? This is an opportunity to keep up with the pace of the world, and are you willing to watch our network fall behind for a while? With his index finger tapped on the table, Zuckerberg said to himself, "We can't do it on our own, so we need allies." ”

At this time, he suddenly thought of a phone call.

That call belonged to a young rich man.

Of course, unlike other rich people, in addition to being simply rich, he is also the new head of the Boston consortium.

While low-key enough, Zuckerberg is well aware of that man's energy. Whether it is in the financial world or the political world, that guy can be regarded as a big man with a head and a face, and the huge network resources he has at his disposal are also incomparable to ordinary rich people who are simply rich......

Although he and the man had only exchanged business cards at a cocktail party, judging by the interest shown by the man in the new technology, it seemed that they had a chance to work together.

And that's a good opportunity.

Thinking of this, Zuckerberg's heart suddenly warmed.

"Anyway, just leave this matter to me, you just have to do your own thing."

"In the future, Oculus' business will focus on the production of virtual reality access devices, and we will directly adopt the technical standards of Star Technology......"

"As for how to cooperate, I will talk to them personally."

……

One million helmets were sold out in one day, and the turnover of 12 billion in a single day even shook Wall Street in North America.

However, if anyone thinks that the turnover of 12 billion is staggering enough, it can only be said that he knows nothing about the business of Huawei Group.

In fact, the HV-1 helmet is just one part of Warwick's layout around virtual reality technology, and although it has shown enough money, it is actually not even a major source of profit.

What they really make money on is the carbon-based communication baseband used in the HV-1, as well as the critical hardware of the Phantom system-compatible neural modem.

Now the only thing in the world that can produce these hardware is the Jiangcheng Semiconductor Industrial Park, and even the helmet that has not yet been put on the shelves for sale, many of the things that cannot be produced in it are purchased from their factories.

And these industries will bring them more than 100 billion market shares in the future. Even if they have to pay a large amount of patent fees to Star Technology, the profits are enough for them to make a lot of money......

Just when the whole world was crazy about the launch of the phantom system, Lu Zhou, as the "father of virtual reality technology", was quite calm and low-key.

Although a large number of reminders or private messages can be received on the neck scarf every day, Professor Lu, who has always been willing to share his joy with fans, acted as if he didn't see anything this time, and did not respond to a single message.

In fact, it's not that he deliberately avoided these news, but he simply didn't see it.

He's been in the lab these days, tinkering with a little knack......

Although this thing may not be as amazing as virtual reality.

But when it comes to its technical content and impact on the global information industry, it is probably not worse than virtual reality technology, or even surpassed......

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