Chapter 405: 389: Playing VR Games with Mirage?

Chapter 405: 389: Playing VR Games with Mirage?

Translator: 549690339

Just as Lincoln sat down in the office, he received an unexpected phone call.

The “missing person” Liang Tian suddenly contacted him.

Lincoln thought for a moment when this person last contacted him.

This was not because he didn’t care about his employees. It was just that after Liang Tian had taken leave a month ago to return to his hometown and embark on his dream for the second time, he almost went off the grid.

It couldn’t be helped, as going back to his hometown was his second startup in a sense, opening a game experience store for himself rather than a branch for Cloud Dream.

Naturally, there was no reason to report his work in Cloud Dream’s office software.

“Hello??” Lincoln answered the phone.

“Boss, I’m sorry!” Liang Tian apologized as soon as he opened his mouth.

“Huh?” Lincoln was bewildered, “How did you let me down?”

“My game experience store is open now.”

“Isn’t that a good thing?” Lincoln wondered, “Could it be that you think you’ve realized your dream and don’t want to come back to work?”

“No, of course not.” Liang Tian quickly clarified, “I’m more than happy to work at Cloud Dream! I don’t have any thoughts of leaving!”

“Then why are you apologizing?”

“My experience store, the price of playing Mirage, is higher than the experience store’s.” Liang Tian’s tone was filled with guilt.

“Because there are various consoles in the store, ranging from portable consoles, arcade machines, home gaming consoles, VR to Mirage. It has been proven that the one-size-fits-all time charge during the trial operation is not feasible, and there are many disputes among customers.”

“But if we charge separately for different consoles, there are too many devices in the store, occupying considerable space, and the operation pressure is enormous. Mirage has no choice but to charge more than the experience store’s charge of 10 dollars an hour. Otherwise, the more outdated VR equipment won’t have the right to charge over 30 dollars an hour, not to mention the even more outdated game equipment compared to VR. The pricing disputes are too significant.”

“In order to keep the store running, I had to set the price of Mirage at 45 dollars an hour.”

As the head of Cloud Dream Experience Store, Liang Tian was well aware that Lincoln’s intention to set such a surprisingly low price was to benefit more people.

But he couldn’t bear the price, as the store wouldn’t survive at that rate.

However, Lincoln comforted Liang Tian, “It’s your store, and you can decide on your own, no need to care about the Cloud Dream Experience Store’s prices.”

He understood that the thing about morality and ideals is that it is meant to restrain oneself.

You cannot use it to restrain others; it is simply meddling and minding other people’s affairs.

So, he just took care of what he thought was right, without demanding others to be the same as him.

As for working directly with game companies to develop games and even retool old games in the virtual world based on virtual environment construction technology so they can run without pressure,:

Lincoln gave up on the idea after just a brief thought.

Because this involves the underlying technology of virtual world construction, it’s very difficult!

– The few times Lincoln played games in the virtual world with Mavis, he would buy the game, hand it to Mavis to crack, and then she would reset it in the virtual world.

If he had to do it himself, he wouldn’t want to waste the time.

Even now among Cloud Dream staff, maybe only Randall could do it, and it would take a lot of time.

Most Cloud Dream staff still use the simplified development tools provided by Lincoln.

Subsequent learning and improvement mostly revolve around these development tools, figuring out how to make them more efficient and easier to use.

So compared to teaching people how to start from scratch, learning the underlying technology, it’s quicker and simpler to develop a “virtual environment upgrade version” of a game for them directly.

Moreover, if you have the energy, why not use it to cultivate your staff?

Of course, having said that, Lincoln was also someone who knew how to make do.

If the Deluxe version is not available for now, we can start with the Youth version (crossed out)!

If you can’t run the game directly, just put the equipment aside and connect a wireless panel.

Then connect the Mirage and the equipment, and use the Mirage to control the console to play the game, isn’t that enough?

In this way, the original equipment is still running the game, and Mirage just acts as an “input” and “output,” substituting the keyboard, controller, omnidirectional treadmill, and terminal display.

What is this?

This is cloud gaming!

The technical difficulty is greatly reduced!

Lincoln immediately began to ponder what hardware and software licenses this technology would require, and whether or not to obtain licenses and collaborate with console manufacturers or game companies.

He was genuinely interested in it.

But soon, Mavis interrupted his reverie, “Master~ NetDragon has announced that the real machine is coming soon!”

“It’s coming at last.” Lincoln shook his head, thinking he’d first look at NetDragon’s moves.

As for using Mirage to play VR games?

He can practice with NetDragon’s equipment tomorrow!