Chapter 595: Chapter 564: Permanent Residents of the Virtual World
Seeing the boss say in all seriousness during the important company monthly meeting that the next main task is “to find people to play games together,” Jason felt a strong sense of dissonance.
What’s even more outrageous is that after Lincoln said that, none of the many people in the meeting room had the reaction he expected—
They were clearly somewhat puzzled, but after a brief moment of confusion, they all accepted this outrageous statement with a resigned expression.
Jason blinked and looked at Fred not far away, suddenly understanding what Fred had said a few days ago—
“Geniuses have unusual thought processes, and they sometimes say and do things that are unpredictable. We may not be able to keep up with them, but it’s normal not to be too bothered by it.”
Jason couldn’t help but lament internally: ‘Who can keep up with this!’
But Lincoln didn’t explain, urging everyone to mind their own business while saying “let’s get back to work.”
And just like that, the meeting ended.
Jason was surprised to see that the new colleagues really dispersed and went back to their individual tasks.
—Everyone was busy after all, it was Monday, and they had to quickly handle the tasks accumulated over the weekend, so they all looked rather hurried.
Only Quentina pulled Jason aside and asked him to first log off and complete the onboarding process.
Jason could only follow her, still feeling puzzled.
*
After the meeting, Lincoln didn’t rush to do other things but first pulled aside Randall.
He needed to discuss a rather awkward yet important topic with Randall first.
“Cough, cough, cough...” This time, Randall choked on his coffee.
Lincoln didn’t pause, continuing: “As you know, simply writing sensory code through conventional methods requires an immense amount of data, and even after a lot of effort, the realism of the senses can only reach 95%. After that, every 1% increase requires a huge amount of work, and pushing it to 100% is extremely difficult. The more abstract and difficult the feelings are to describe, the harder it is.”
Randall nodded in deep agreement.
Originally, Fred wanted to create a realistic night scene atmosphere, but the actual coding for sensory data took a lot of effort and became more difficult after passing a certain threshold.
In the end, they had to ask Lincoln for help.
As a result, after Lincoln became a trending topic for visiting a bar one night, the sensory database had an extra set of night scene data the next day.
Every Cloud Dream employee involved in the project had looked up to Lincoln like an immortal since then.
Everyone was curious about how Lincoln managed to pull it off.
It couldn’t have been done just by typing, could it?
With that amount of code, ten fingers, or even ten pairs of hands, wouldn’t be enough!
“I have a special method that can directly translate our [physical sensations] into [sensory data],”‘ Lincoln explained to Randall. “But this method has very limited usage and cannot be propagated.”
“What do you mean?” Randall vaguely understood what Lincoln meant.
“Uh...” Lincoln felt awkward again, “Do you think Sister Tung might be... willing to volunteer?”
“I won’t involve her privacy at all! I promise! It’s just a simple collection of sensory data,” Lincoln quickly assured him.
Randall also felt awkward, but in the end, he nodded and said, “I need to talk to her and ask her opinion first.”
“Of course, of course, it’s only right,” Lincoln nodded repeatedly. “I’ll wait here for you?”
Randall nodded wordlessly, then quickly opened a teleportation gate and left.