Time Travel: 2014

In the next six or seven years, almost pure mini-games in the App Store will disappear.

Even some games play like mini-games.

But in reality this type of game is not small.

Just break up your play time into as many fragments as possible.

Simplify the game content while fragmenting the game time.

In this way, players are almost unaware that the game they are playing is actually a very time-consuming and costly game.

It is somewhat similar to the approach used by Lin Hui in the game "HILL CLIMB RACING".

Even though there are still small games like jump jump.

However, compared to today's games, its form of existence has also changed.

On the surface, it is just a change in the mode of existence.

In fact, it involves many deep changes in business philosophy, profit model and other things.

After all, Lin Hui feels that the success of his first three games will be difficult to repeat.

Even if his success could be replicated, Lin Hui didn't care.

Between heaven and earth is Lin Hui’s stage.

And after a series of Lin Hui’s previous actions.

The pie in the mini-game industry is now much bigger than before.

It’s not to say that if some new power comes in, some people will compete with Lin Hui for the cake. That doesn’t exist.

After that, Lin Hui and Huang Jing chatted for a while.

What surprised Lin Hui was that Huang Jing and several other people from Apple were still in the Northern Territory.

Huang Jing also invited Lin Hui to sit out.

Well, I stayed in the Northern Territory for so long.

Anyway, Lin Hui didn't find anything interesting in the Northern Territory at night.

Lin Hui rejected Huang Jing's request.

It’s not entirely because I didn’t think it was fun that I refused.

Lin Hui is not such a superficial person.

The main thing is that Lin Hui did have other things to do at night, and he had no time to spare.

…

Speaking of this phone call with Huang Jing, Lin Hui learned a lot.

Lin Hui just chatted with Huang Jing about some things related to IP.

When it comes to shaping the IP of the game "Hill Climb Racing", it's basically a done deal.

It’s nothing more than adding some plot easter eggs.

Although Huang Jing thinks it is more troublesome to give Newton Beale what kind of emotion.

But Lin Hui felt that it was actually not troublesome.

The emotion you want to impart resonates with players on a psychological level.

Just establish the character of Newton Beale and that's it.

As for what kind of character?

After all, I was also a veteran novel fan in my previous life, so it was easy to come up with a popular character.

The character issue has been taken care of, and the emotional baseline is not too difficult to grasp.

All in all, it's not difficult.

As for the IP of other games besides "Hill Climb Racing".

Although the money scene is tempting.

However, Lin Hui does not intend to get involved too deeply in the short term.

Lin Hui also pursues long-term development.

Although IP and so on are very tempting.

But if you put all the directions you want to get involved into a tree diagram.

Then it will be a pity to find that the game IP Shenma is just a development branch for Lin Hui.

There is actually no need to waste too much time on branch lines.

Technology and future growth are the main thread.

When technology develops to a certain level, some branches can be easily sketched.

As for the main line technology that outlines IP, it is undoubtedly artificial intelligence.

Although the development of emerging technologies and new concepts such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and Yuan/Universe will all contribute to the development of IP.

However, among these three technologies, Lin Hui only thinks that artificial intelligence is the most reliable.

The Metaverse is more or less unreliable.

According to the normal trajectory, artificial intelligence will take off in just one or two years.

Commercial use of 5G will require long-term investment.

As for the metaverse.

When Lin Hui mentioned this name, he wanted to complain.

The impact of the Internet is so great, why don’t you dare call it the Internet Universe?

Why can something rooted in AR and VR be called the Metaverse?

Of course, it is also possible that the translator had ulterior motives.

The English name of the metaverse is metaverse.

The term "Metaverse" was first used in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel "Snow Crash".

Originally the term described the successor to the Internet based on virtual reality.

It's not as outrageous as the name "Yuan Universe" at all.

Translated into the metaverse, this is very misleading.

I don’t know what the translator’s intentions were.

Metaverse When it comes to things at the application level, the Metaverse is more like a complete joke.

The Metaverse seems a lot like an unattainable dream.

Researchers following the concept believe that the Metaverse has many application possibilities:

In the business field, Metaverse can be used in virtual office platforms, where users can collaborate virtually in a 3D environment that simulates an office environment.

In education, the Metaverse can be used to conduct field trips anywhere and at any point in history.

In real estate, the Metaverse can be used for immersive virtual home tours.

This introduction sounds familiar, right?

Because in fact, this is largely AR\u0026VR.

After the hype of VR hit a wall, they changed the concept and continued to cheat.

The concept propagandists tell the story beautifully.

The ideal metaverse would allow users to engage in any experience or activity.

Or solve almost all of their needs, so in an ideal world, the Metaverse could be applied to anything.

Although the idea is very good, but it really has to reach this level.

Requires extremely high computing power.

The IT field has the famous troika of algorithms, computing power, and data.

The takeoff of any one of these three carriages will bring about a technological revolution.

The revolution in algorithms gave rise to artificial intelligence.

The take-off in computing has given rise to big data.

The development of algorithms and calculations has brought about qualitative changes.

The future development of computing power will also bring about qualitative changes.

This change may truly enable the Metaverse.

However, these are only theoretical feasibility.

The actual situation is very sad.

The computing power in 2021 cannot support the concept of the metaverse they want.

Not to mention that the computing power in 2014 is even more unsustainable.

Regardless of computing power, hardware equipment is required to achieve the concept of the metaverse.

The metaverse includes the physical world and the virtual world.

Problems involving the virtual world are relatively easy to solve, but troubles involving the physical world are even more difficult.

What is more troublesome is the limitations of various hardware devices.

The most troublesome part of the hardware device is the sensor.

Sensors simply cannot achieve the simulated reality that the Metaverse strives for.

We couldn't do it in 21 years, and we can't do it now.

Nowadays, many mobile phones cannot even automatically adjust the brightness by sensing light.

Not to mention wanting to build a cosmic world with a grand worldview in the Metaverse.

The metaverse that has been wildly hyped in later generations is largely a reskinned version of VR.

Even in 21st Century, the metaverse simply cannot reach the concept of the "universe" they promote.

The reason why there is big thunder but little rain is simply to make money through speculation.

The metaverse may come true.

However, the most optimistic estimate is that its large-scale commercial implementation will not be until around 2028~2030.