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"Mr. Zhong, this is the rough design of the current holographic projection display, take a look."

Lin Xiaoguang sent a design proposal to Zhong Ming's bracelet.

This time Zhong Ming didn't design it himself, but let Lin Xiaoguang give the design first.

Open the design plan and take a look. This holographic projection display is a boxy structure, flat, and looks like a black table.

A preview of the effect is also drawn above. The content of the game can be displayed in a certain proportion on the projection display table. The character controlled by the player will be in the center of the table most of the time, but not the center, and will be slightly towards the player. The direction of the game is shifted a little, which ensures that the player will play the game from an over-the-shoulder perspective for most of the time in the game.

Of course, the specific position and angle of view can be adjusted freely.

This holographic projection display is the same as a conventional display. It is also recommended to be placed on the table. The projected image is roughly at the same level as the player's line of sight.

"Can't this picture be bigger?" Zhong Ming asked.

Lin Xiaoguang explained: "Bigger was possible at the time, but there were two problems, one was the distortion of the projection, and the other was the display accuracy of the screen."

"The Chanel projected by the previous holographic projection module can be about the size of a real person, because it is only responsible for projecting characters, not the entire scene. In fact, the projection equipment in the holographic projection module can be turned freely. When you walk around, the projection equipment is actually spinning, which makes people feel that the projection can cover a very large area.”

"But our holographic projection device is not just enough to project one character, it has to project the whole scene. The base is only this big. If the projection is enlarged...for example, as big as half a room, then the projected light will be It becomes a pyramid shape with disparity in proportion. The bottom is smaller and the top is bigger, Mr. Zhong, do you understand?"

Zhong Ming nodded: "I know, but can't the projection of the bracelet also be enlarged?"

"Yes, but the magnification of the holographic projection of the bracelet is also strictly limited. This principle is similar to that of the projectors that were common in the past." Lin Xiaoguang explained, "The traditional projectors can indeed project very large, but The resolution is fixed, the larger the projection, the less clear it is. The device itself has keystone correction, but the effect of keystone correction can only be adjusted within the projection coverage area.”

Zhong Ming instantly understood: "Oh, I see. In other words, you can zoom in if you want, but you can only cut out a cube in this 'pyramid-shaped' holographic projection space, right?"

Lin Xiaoguang nodded: "Yes, that's what it means. We mainly consider that the picture is enlarged and the resolution remains unchanged, so the whole scene will only become more blurred, so it doesn't make much sense to do so."

Zhong Ming thought about it, this design plan is indeed a relatively safe design plan.

It is not impossible to make the holographic projection very large, but it will inevitably lead to worrying resolution. Chanel's holographic projection module only needs to project one character, and the projection direction moves with Chanel, which is very economical, and the final price was sold at 998.

Although Zhong Ming has always said that "Ink and Cloud 2" does not require too high picture accuracy, it is compared with a traditional display as big as a wall. In this world, even handheld devices have reached 4K resolution, and the holographic projection display The resolution can't be lower than the handheld, right? In that case, it would be a joke at the press conference.

Therefore, Lin Xiaoguang’s proposal here is to make the holographic projection display about the same size as a normal PC display, which is basically the same as putting the PC display flat on the table. In games, the effect will be better.

"However, let's add the function of adjusting the size. Players can use it, but we can't." Zhong Ming thought about it and said.

Some players may prefer to use a larger size to play. Although the resolution remains unchanged after zooming in, some players may have the need to put the projector on the living room floor and play on the sofa by themselves.

Lin Xiaoguang nodded: "Okay, then we will add it to the settings of the projector. If players want to adjust it, they can freely adjust it according to their own needs."

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After roughly confirming the plan of the holographic projection display with Lin Xiaoguang, Zhong Ming started to write a new document.

This time it's about some display issues after porting the game to a holographic projection display.

To put it simply, although the original game is a 3D game, because the game content is displayed on a flat monitor, the UI in the game is directly displayed on the screen.

For example, the blood volume is displayed in the upper left corner of the screen, and the task list is displayed on the right. These UIs are directly displayed on the screen.

However, the holographic projection display uses a completely different display method, and it is very unreasonable to apply these UI designs mechanically.

Whether it is the current "Ink Cloud 2", or Zhong Ming's plan to open most of the 3D games on the low-light platform in a holographic projection mode in the future, all of these require re-determining the UI and interactive interface in the game.

These, like shooting simulators, also need to determine a standard.

Of course, Zhong Ming doesn’t have to start from scratch. The previous “Dawn Era” and “City Guard Battle” are games in holographic projection mode. Zhong Ming has already tried UI design in this mode, but because of these two games They are all mobile games with a relatively simple UI. Most of the units in "City Defense War" can be converted into cards, so there is no very clear rule.

Now "Ink and Cloud" is a real 3A masterpiece, and its holographic projection mode will determine a rule for all future masterpieces that will be put on holographic projection, so this UI interaction must be well done.

Zhong Ming thought about it for a while and decided on a plan.

In short, the UI design in the holographic projection reality mode needs to follow a principle, which is to reduce the UI in the scene as much as possible, and integrate some necessary UI into the game scene as much as possible.

In fact, many film-based games have already tried this, and they have achieved certain results.

Specifically, in the game "Ink Cloud 2", the UI information on the interface is no longer floating above the game scene, but integrated with the game scene.

For example, the scholar has the concept of "ink volume", which is similar to energy value, which supports him to release special actions. "Ink volume" will be displayed in the form of yin and yang fish + Tai Chi diagram. Every time the scholar uses a special action, "Ink volume" will appear next to his model and start to be consumed. The method of consumption is that the yin-yang fish in the Taiji diagram starts to rotate, and at the same time, the gossip patterns in the Taiji diagram start to be consumed one by one. After the gossip patterns are exhausted, the yin-yang fish will start to become smaller, and the complete disappearance of the yin-yang fish means "the amount of ink". ” has been exhausted.

And when the scholar talks to the NPC in the scene, the pop-up options will also be displayed directly above the NPC's head or beside him. As for the subtitle of the NPC's speech, the player can freely adjust it. It can be displayed directly below the direction where the holographic projection is facing the player, or it can be displayed on the head of the NPC.

In addition, when the scholar conducts a long-range attack, the original display method is to display a crosshair on the screen, but it will become a dotted parabola on the holographic projection screen. Use the right joystick and gyroscope to adjust the aiming direction.

In addition, there are some specific functional interfaces in the game, such as opened maps, backpacks, etc., which will be displayed directly in front of the player. Especially for the map interface, the player will be shown a 3D map, reducing the player's fear of being dominated by the map level.

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Linghu live broadcast platform, President's Office.

Zhang Xinjie, the CEO of Linghu Live, was so angry that he threw a file in his hand on the table: "Trash!"

Manager Bai stood aside with his head down, not daring to answer.

There was a reason for Zhang Xinjie's anger. Manager Bai lost Tang Ying, a major anchor, and it was a very serious work mistake no matter what.

Of course, strictly speaking, this is not Manager Bai's fault, because the Linghu live broadcast platform has always done this, and it was also instructed and acquiesced by Zhang Xinjie. When the contracts of anchors who have declined in popularity expire, they will more or less lock in some popularity to lower prices.

There is nothing wrong with this matter. After all, the live broadcast platform also has to consider its own interests, suppress some popularity, and reduce the signing fee. As long as a little something is extracted from the mouths of these big anchors, it is not a small sum of money.

But never expected that Tang Ying not only walked away gracefully and rejected the contract offered by Linghu Live, but also became more popular than before!

Judging from the current situation, the Weiguang live broadcast platform is still in a low-level state in the industry, but Tang Ying's personal popularity is even higher than before. Whether it is the popularity of Weibo, hot search index, etc. It has surpassed her state when she was live on Linghu (suppressed).

In the final analysis, it still borrowed the wind from "Xuan Jia Project".

The popularity of "Xuanjia Project", especially the popularity of the GS1 emulator, is completely unexpected. Who would have thought that Tang Ying, who has always been a winner in games, would be so good at playing the GS1 version of "Xuanjia Project"?

Moreover, the most terrible thing is that Linghu Live can't find anyone who can replace Tang Ying.

The platform originally wanted to praise Buqi, but she is very good in all aspects, and she is also good at playing games, but she can't play the GS1 emulator. But now the audience just love to watch the anchor play on the GS1 emulator.

Therefore, Zhang Xinjie was very angry. What made him angry was not that Manager Bai had suppressed Tang Ying's popularity, but that Manager Bai had been suppressing Tang Ying for a long time and had him go away, and he failed to sign a relatively low contract!

"Moreover, the problem now is that our new generation of anchors is very problematic, and Weiguang Live is more attractive to new anchors than us." Zhang Xinjie said with a gloomy face.

What Zhang Xinjie said was not an unreasonable guess, but a fact.

The Linghu live broadcast platform has been looking for anchors of the GS1 version of "Xuanjia Project", not only on its own platform, but also in high-segment segments of the game.

As a result, after searching and searching, it turned out that a large part of these high-score players had already signed a contract with the Weiguang live broadcast platform!

This incident made Linghu Live very disgusting, poach people, the contract has already been signed, and the contract is a dynamic contract, less money is paid to poach people, people are not willing to come, and more money is paid, and Linghu Live feels very bad .

Of course, if you are really willing to spend money to poach people, you will definitely be able to poach them, and the staff of Linghu Live will also watch and investigate, and only spend a lot of money if they feel that they have a popular foundation. But in the final analysis, there are still a few who are really willing to spend money to dig.

Moreover, the penalty for signing a contract with the Weiguang live broadcast platform is not low. If the popularity of the anchor has already risen, the liquidated damages will be even higher, and the contract for Weiguang live broadcast is relatively long.

What's more, if you poach people halfway, you also have to consider the lawsuit after the breach of contract. Losing money is a small matter, but banning the broadcast is a big problem.

In the past, when Linghu Live had a poaching battle with other live broadcast platforms, they often filed lawsuits to ban these anchors, so they naturally knew the dangers involved.

Of course, if you say that Linghu Live cannot recruit people or has encountered great difficulties? That's impossible, but it's just plain gross.

Many potential newcomers have been lost, and they have to pay liquidated damages and risk being banned from broadcasting if they are recruited again.

This was exactly where Zhang Xinjie was angry. He felt a sense of crisis.

At present, the Weiguang live broadcast platform does not poach big anchors with great fanfare, so most of these top anchors, who mainly contribute traffic and income to the platform, are currently staying in the Linghu live broadcast in a down-to-earth manner, and have not moved. Don’t worry about this .

However, the Weiguang live broadcast platform is more attractive to some newcomers than the Linghu live broadcast, which is equivalent to making the hematopoietic ability of the Linghu live broadcast worse.

In the past, newcomers who had some skills and wanted to start a live broadcast, their first reaction was to come to Linghu Live to try it out. If the popularity is good and they can sign a contract with Linghu Live, they may sign directly. Linghu Live does not require much effort, as long as it screens out potential newcomers on its own platform and signs a contract, that's it.

In other words, Linghu Live has always been the largest platform among so many live broadcast platforms, and naturally has the strongest hematopoietic ability, so it can continuously win new anchors one by one, and it is not harmful to poach one or two big anchors.

But now, many newcomers who want to start broadcasting have taken Weiguang live broadcast as their first choice.

The reason is simple, it is easier to get ahead.

Although the volume of Linghu live broadcast is large, most of the newcomers can't make it to the top. The live broadcast room is at the bottom and no one watches it. Even if they really have skills and strength, they must slowly accumulate popularity. Although the staff will discover, but after all, there are too many newcomers, and the staff will not be able to discover so many.

But the low-light live broadcast is completely different. Its biggest advantage is that it can directly read the data in the game, and automatically attach various labels to new anchors. Viewers can quickly filter out the content they want to watch as long as they search the filter conditions a little.

If an anchor is particularly good at playing "Xuan Jia Project" and has good data, then players can easily search for it based on the data, and the exposure is much greater than that of Linghu Live.

This formed a very sharp contrast: no one cares about the live broadcast in Linghu, but there are many people watching their live broadcast when it comes to the live broadcast of Weiguang. Naturally, they prefer to broadcast on the live broadcast of Weiguang.

Moreover, many people didn’t plan to broadcast live at first, but just played the game. A box popped up in the game prompting you to click a button to start the live broadcast directly for everyone to watch, so these players clicked casually, and the result was a live broadcast. Later, I realized that I actually had a lot of viewers!

As a result, many newcomers signed a contract with Weiguang Live Broadcasting directly when they were happy. They didn’t think too much when signing the contract. After all, it’s a dynamic salary.

Weiguang Live has in-game data, so it can find these people faster, and when the staff of Linghu Live find these people, many of them have already signed contracts with Weiguang Live.