Chapter 769 VRgame Is Online!

? The last piece of good news is about the Phantom Helmet of Futureman Technology. ≯

At the beginning of April, Futureman Technology held a special VR game industry summit in the Los Angeles Silicon Valley branch, and invited hundreds of well-known game manufacturers around the world to sign a VR technology sharing agreement.

As early as the beginning of last year, Futureman Technology opened up VR software development tools at the request of all parties. However, because there is no supporting training institution, major game manufacturers have made extremely slow progress when transplanting their games to VR platforms. . And apart from big manufacturers such as Microsoft, Sony, Sega, and Ubisoft, almost no one has the financial resources to rent a super computer as a server for their own games.

It is precisely because of this that until April of this year, there is still no large-scale VR game on the market other than "God-level Continent".

But now this situation will soon end.

According to the signed VR technology sharing agreement, Futureman Group will send technical consultants to major game companies to train them a group of technicians who can use basic VR development tools proficiently. The Future Group will hold 5% of the shares of these game companies participating in the agreement in the form of technology shares. This 5% stake will allow Futureman Technology to obtain a seat on the board of directors of each game company.

However, Future Group promises to only exercise limited voting rights on the board of directors.

At the same time, in the latest update of the Phantom Helmet, the VRgame icon has been added to the menu interface. Although it is only a black frame at present, it will only pop up after clicking it, so stay tuned.

The positioning of VRgame is similar to steam on PC, and users can purchase games through VRgame. All companies that join the technology sharing agreement will be eligible to join VRgame. For games sold by other companies, Futureman Technology only charges 20% of the total sales as a channel fee, and charges a relatively low rent based on the amount of server resources occupied.

Due to technical reasons, the Future Group has completely blocked the possibility of piracy in the channel, and VR games are originally the development direction of games in the next era, so once the VRgame application was launched, it immediately attracted the attention of countless game manufacturers.

What's more, some directly announced at their own company's shareholder meeting that they would devote all their energy to the development of VR games and completely abandon the rampant piracy; hope. At the beginning of 2000, there were still many excellent stand-alone games emerging in Huaguo, including Meteor Butterfly Sword, Gu Jian Qi Tan, Sword and Sword Sealing Demon Record and so on. However, these masterpieces that had hoped to compete with Japanese game companies all died in the hands of their own people without exception. Before even going abroad, he was bankrupted by pirated discs.

The only fairy sword series that barely survived to the present has also engaged in the business of selling feelings and making money.

But now that can end.

All VR games are based on the servers of the Future Group, and any application for server rental without copyright registration will be rejected. In addition, the subject matter that some game manufacturers in some countries worry about can also be perfectly solved in VRgame.

The platform's built-in translation system makes language not a problem at all. Even if the game you make cannot pass the review in China, it can still be sold in New China and conquer the global market. The "loophole" in the phantom helmet also allows players in other regions to buy games sold in Xinguo over the wall. That is to say, as long as your game is good enough, even if it is sold in a new country with a population of less than 100,000, the sales volume can still exceed 100 million.

Could it be that those people from the Incineration Department went to Xinguo and burned your server?

According to the relevant regulations of the World Trade Organization on virtual products and services, there is no tax when selling games across the country, so there is no problem of tax avoidance.

It is foreseeable that in the next few years, a number of high-quality VR games will emerge in the Phantom Helmets, changing from a unique pattern of future technology to a pattern of flourishing.

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Microsoft Game Studios, referred to as mgs, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft, which develops and runs games for indos-based personal computers and xbox and xbox36o game consoles. Its game development involves many fields from RTs to Rpg, and its representative works include the familiar "Age of Empires", "Fable", "Rise of Nations", "Halo", and "Free Lancer", which is called the world's first A "rich" console game company is not an exaggeration.

For this industry summit, Futureman Technology of course invited mgs, and the CEO of mgs, Aiden Nelson, also took a flight to California in person.

After attending the VR game industry summit in Silicon Valley, Aiden walked out of the venue with a sullen face, and immediately flew back to Redmond, Washington, USA without saying a word, and went directly to Microsoft headquarters with his suitcase.

Handing the suitcase to the secretary, he stood at the door of the CEO's office with the briefcase in hand, took a deep breath, opened the door and walked in.

As he expected, CEO Satya Nadella is in office. When he saw Aiden enter the door, Satya put the pen in his hand aside and looked up at him.

"How's it going?"

Aiden spread his hands, not knowing how to answer, just took the file from the briefcase.

"This is the VR technology sharing agreement given by Future People Technology. The fruit they gave is very sweet, but the conditions..."

After thinking for a long time, Aiden spit out a word.

"Very harsh."

Satya didn't seem to hear what his subordinates said, took the document and looked through it, and pushed the eyes on the bridge of his nose.

Half an hour later, Satya put down the handwriting, picked up the pen left aside, and signed his name at the end.

"good."

Satya looked at the name and swallowed.

"Are we really going to let them hold mgs? Although it's only 5% of the shares..."

"Thinking about it from another angle, paying 5% of the shares can make mgs live, which is also a good ending." Satya snorted, shook his head with a smile.

&nbgs 5% of the shares is equivalent to spending 500 million yuan to join this agreement. Only 500 million can be exchanged for the possibility of entering the field of virtual reality. This deal is not too bad. What's more, Microsoft doesn't have much choice.

The introduction of VR equipment is like an industry reshuffle. In this reshuffle, even a small workshop with a market value of $1 may become a company with a market value of tens of billions that will dominate the VR game market in the future. What is certain is that those small-scale game manufacturers must have signed without hesitation. If Microsoft hesitates at this time, mgs may even be thrown away by those small companies in the VR field.

What's more, in the agreement, Futureman Technology also promised that it will make certain compensation for companies with high market value. This kind of compensation is mainly reflected in the inclination of training resources. Large companies have richer talent reserves, and FutureRen Technology will also send more technical consultants to "help" them become familiar with development tools.

They're all family anyway.

"The next strategic goal of mgs is to port minecraft to VRgame. The only requirement is to occupy the sandbox game market and be ahead of all companies!"

The minecraft purchased by Microsoft for $2.5 billion was originally intended to be used on the newly launched ho1oLens, but the sales of ho1oLens have proved that they have failed miserably in the VR field.

Porting Minecraft to a competitor's platform is, in a sense, throwing in the towel in disguise. But looking at it from another angle, this is also a choice. After all, it is really not a wise move to fight on VR equipment with the Future Group, which has an absolute advantage.

But...is this really good?

Picking up the agreement, looking at the expressionless face of the group CEO, Aiden finally couldn't help asking.

"Is this really good?" (To be continued.) 8