At the dinner table, the three of them were eating and chatting.

"Teacher Zhong, what are you busy with in Weiguang Studio recently? Why does it seem that you haven't moved for a while?" Tang Ying asked.

"Oh, I'm developing a new game recently." Zhong Ming added, "fps game."

Tang Ying was very interested: "Oh? Is it the kind of "Resident Evil" or "The Road to Gun God"? Or a single player game?"

Zhong Ming shook his head: "No, this time it is an online game similar to "The Road to Gun God", and the gameplay is different."

"Prepare to send a PC terminal? Are you sending a gameomni?" Tang Ying asked.

"There must be a PC terminal, but Gamemoni is not going to be sent anymore. We are also working on hardware." Zhong Ming said.

"Make your own hardware?"

Tang Ying felt a little surprised. Weiguang Studio is also going to start making hardware?

The hardware threshold is not low!

There are not many technology manufacturers in China that make hardware. A company as big as Moya Technology almost made handhelds. If it weren't for Weiguang Studio's "Zodiac Guardian", it would be hard to say whether the mgc2 handhelds could hold on.

In Tang Ying's impression, Weiguang Studio is currently just a research and development team focusing on high-quality games. Unexpectedly, it has begun to develop its own hardware.

"Are you planning to make a hardware? Handheld machine or something?" Tang Ying asked.

"I have a simulator device similar to gameomni. I have a engineering machine at home. I just sent it yesterday, but it is only installed with a simple demo of the game. I can barely play it. If you are interested, you can go and have a look." Zhong Ming said.

The engineering machine is a sample machine that is still under development. It must have many problems, but at least it can be played.

Tang Ying nodded: "Okay, then we'll go to Teacher Zhong's house to check out the new equipment after dinner! Will it not bother you?"

"Oh, no."

Tian Yuan gave Tang Ying a blank look: "Sister, your Internet addiction is really time to cure. Come to Ming'an City all the way. The first thing you do is not to go out to play or go shopping in the mall, but to play games first?"

Tang Ying smiled: "You have the right to say to me? You have spent four or five hundred yuan on a mobile game. You should be taken to the School of Technology Defense and Electrical Therapy, okay."

Tian Yuan: “…”

No one of these two Internet-addicted girls can say anything about each other, they are almost the same. Otherwise, they would not have been engaged in games-related industries.

After the three of them had lunch, Tian Yuan drove to the community where Zhong Ming lived.

"The environment is OK." The three of them walked in the community. Tang Ying looked at the surrounding environment and felt it was pretty good.

Although it is winter now and the trees in the community have all fallen leaves at the end of January, the layout of the entire community is quite high-end. If all the leaves of these trees grow in summer, they should be lush and beautiful.

"The first choice was as the office location of Weiguang Studio, so I chose a better community and I would be able to get better at work every day." Zhong Ming explained.

"Office location?" Tian Yuan was a little surprised.

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes, Weiguang Studio was originally working here. The small studios are like this. At first, there was no money, and there were only three or four employees in total. It was not cost-effective to rent a work station in an office building. It would be better to rent a house directly. However, after Weiguang Studio moved to Huanyu Daguan, all the things here were packed up. I was too lazy to move, so I kept renting it here."

"It sounded quite miserable at the time." Tian Yuan muttered.

Zhong Ming smiled and said, "It's not bad. In fact, working in such a place is quite good. It's almost like working from home. You can cook by yourself, which is much more convenient than outside."

When he arrived at the door of his house, Zhong Ming opened the electronic lock with his fingerprint and pushed the door in.

"Please come in."

Tang Ying followed Zhong Ming into the room and looked around. It was quite neat.

In the living room, there are all furniture such as sofas, TVs, coffee tables, etc., there is also a driving simulator, two game consoles, a high-end computer, some figures, and a simulator device similar to gameomni in the corner. It should be the shooting simulator that Zhong Ming is developing himself.

Tang Ying's first reaction was: "Teacher Zhong, do you actually don't have smart modules at home?"

“Some. Chanel.”

Zhong Ming shouted, and a voice replied, "I'm here."

"Reception mode." Zhong Ming said.

Chanel quickly replied: "Yes, reception mode is turned on."

I only heard Shanaier talking, but couldn't see the holographic projection. Tang Ying even looked for it and found that there was no. It should be that Zhong Ming did not turn on the holographic projection function.

"Why don't you show Shanai's holographic image?" Tang Ying asked.

"I can't use it at home."

Similar intelligent modules are very popular among many young people. Many people who stay at home all day need this kind of artificial intelligence to chat with themselves from time to time, play games, or even if they don’t chat, just watching a virtual image there will greatly relieve their loneliness.

But for Zhong Ming, he himself was not very interested in this kind of smart module, so he did not turn on the holographic projection at all.

Tang Ying hung the thin down jacket outside on the clothes hanger, and the two of them sat down on the sofa.

"What to drink?" Zhong Ming asked.

Tang Ying: "Coffee bar."

Tian Yuan: "Ice Coke."

The so-called "reception mode" does not mean that there is really an artificial intelligence robot coming to receive guests, but the electrical appliances in the room automatically change to the reception mode.

For example, the beverage machine next to the coffee table automatically starts working, heating or cooling the drinks inside.

Soon, two cups rose from the automatic beverage machine, and automatically came under the classification of "coffee" and "cola", and took a cup of coffee and a cup of cola.

Tang Ying and Tian Yuan sat on the sofa and reached out to get it.

Most of the electrical appliances in the room are also voice-controlled. You can complete the corresponding operation by saying it to Chanel. For example, if you want to watch a program, just say "I want to watch a program so-and-so", and the TV will turn on and jump automatically.

"Teacher Zhong, do you live here alone?" Tang Ying asked.

The layout of the living room is very simple. Apart from the large number of gaming equipment, the others are basically necessities of daily life, such as sweeping robots, beverage machines, etc. The door of the master bedroom is closed, while the door of the second bedroom is completely closed.

From any angle, there is no sign of a second male or female living in this place.

"I live in the second bedroom, but he is in high school and will only come back on weekends. He usually lives in school. He is called Wei Yong, who was rescued from the Science and Technology Defense College. His parents were temporarily deprived of custody, so he lives in me." Zhong Ming said.

"Ah? There's still something going on?"

Tang Ying and Tian Yuan were both surprised because they had never mentioned these things. Zhong Ming asked about the details of the matter again, and Zhong Ming explained it briefly.

"Don't be too restrictive. Just play whatever you want. My game equipment is quite complete." Zhong Ming pointed to the bunch of equipment.

Tang Ying stood up from the sofa: "I'd better play with your new equipment first. This thing feels a bit similar to gameomni, what's the name?"

"gs1, gamespae, game space. It is indeed a bit similar to gameomni, because the mainstream form of shooting simulators is basically like this, but there are still many minor changes, you can feel it."

Tang Ying entered the gamespae and soon found that the game was very different from the previous gameomni.

There are two most prominent differences. One is that the soles of the feet are no longer a disc for trampling, but have become a universal treadmill plus "roller skates".

This pair of "roller skates" can be worn directly, with straps on it that can be tied tightly, and it will not slip after being worn. The sole of the shoe has two beads similar to a balance bike, which can slide to any angle.

"How to play this? Do I have to slide it myself?" Tang Ying looked at it and felt that this thing should be helpful, but there was no power cord on it.

Zhong Ming explained: "No, this is like a balance bike, just tilt your body. With wireless power, the universal treadmill base below is a huge wireless charger. You can directly charge this pair of shoes, and you won't lose power even if you keep playing..."

Tang Ying put on these special balance shoes and then buckled the bracket around her waist. After buckled it, the waist bracket emitted a flowing blue light, which circled the entire waist bracket, and then the bracket connected to the belt and the base was automatically activated, gently helping to drag Tang Ying's body straight.

The 360-degree wraparound screen began to slowly descend, and images appeared.

"Wait a minute, Teacher Zhong, what is this thing on my chest? And... I always feel my feet are slipping?"

Tang Ying looked at it and found that there was a curved baffle on her chest, and there were two guns hanging on it. The gun was used directly in her hand, but this baffle was obviously not a decoration, and there were three grooves on it, which seemed to have special uses.

"The specific gameplay will be a simple tutorial after entering the game. As for slipping soles of your feet... it is your illusion. This thing is the same as a balance bike, and it will sense the degree of inclination of your body. If you are upright, the two wheels will not move." Zhong Ming said through the display screen.

Tian Yuan was watching outside. Because the large screen was 360 degrees full-circling, she couldn't see clearly what the situation was in Tang Ying inside.

Tian Yuan: "Is there no camera or something here? I want to watch it."

Zhong Ming said, "Can the camera inside be turned on?"

Tang Ying: "Oh, that's OK."

Zhong Ming said: "There are several buttons on the bracket. Look at the button with a camera pattern on it and just click it."

Tang Ying clicked the button and the system prompted that the camera acquisition function was turned on.

According to the settings previously, these images are automatically projected onto the large TV in the living room. The main image is the game screen that Tang Ying has seen so far, while the secondary image is an image taken by a movable camera slanted behind Tang Ying. It just happened to capture Tang Ying's back, forming a very standard overshoulder viewing angle.

Tian Yuan said in surprise: "Hey, can this camera pick up portraits and mix reality with game images?"

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes, this is also a small feature different from gameomni."

"Is it so magical? Unfortunately, I can't see the pictures on TV. What does it look like?" Tang Ying asked inside.

Tian Yuan described it: "It is to deduct your entire person, keep only one back view, and combine the game image with you, rather than directly shooting the device's screen. Oh, simply put, it is like some VR games that can combine portraits and VR game images through green screens."

Tang Ying: "Ah, that feels quite fun. I'll have to see it later."

This is also a function different from gameomni. After turning on the camera mode, a camera will appear behind the player's oblique, and the camera will also rotate with the player and always remain at the back of the player's oblique. In this way, the images taken will always be viewed by the shoulders.

The images captured by this camera will be taken out through special algorithms, erasing other screen images, devices and other elements in the picture, and then combining the cutout image with the video and audio signals directly produced in the game.

When watching on TV, it is like a player entering the game from a shoulder-side perspective. Whether the player shoots, slides or performs some tactical actions, it can be perfectly combined with the pictures in the game.

Tian Yuan sighed: "This is really a good thing. The only shame is that the characters in the game are all wearing mecha exoskeletons, but now they are real people, which is a bit out of the play."

"There are also solutions to this. We have also customized a set of special tight clothing, which is similar to the green screen, but will collect the player's actions in real time. If you wear this outfit to play the game, the system will automatically generate character actions based on the player's actions, so that what you see in the live broadcast screen will be a game character." Zhong Ming said.
To be continued...