Chapter 549 My lunch is free!

What does it feel like to control the Android system on a 70-inch LCD monitor?

Ye Qiu is doing such a strange thing at this moment.

In front of him is a Samsung LCD monitor hanging on the wall more than four meters away from him. It is seventy inches, ultra-thin, and has burgundy piano paint. It looks like a typical Korean design. It has a winning appearance. Of course, The quality is still okay.

Sitting on the sofa, he put his hands on both sides and looked at the monitor in front of him. No one noticed his movements. They just felt that web pages appeared on the monitor. He was surfing the Internet and browsing some portals. By the way, I Googled Tottenham Hotspur and eight consecutive wins, and found a lot of news links.

Then I felt the screen shrank, exited the webpage, and entered Weibo. Then I saw the APP software slowly climbing up. It looked like I was browsing Weibo one by one. But not long after, I exited again and entered again. Played a game, cutting fruit.

When Ye Qiu started cutting the fruit, there was clearly a burst of laughter from around him. Isn't this a bit of a prank?

Eliza Moon, who was sitting not far from him, wanted to smash him to death with a hygienic eye. Couldn't she be more serious?

But what is surprising is that Ye Qiu made no movement, but the action of cutting fruit kept appearing on the screen. Could it be that he was using the legendary technique of killing enemies with his eyes?

This guy’s fruit-cutting skills were as bad as his pick-up skills. It didn’t take long for him to be hit by a bomb and he died. After exiting, he entered a drawing app and saw something incredible. One scene.

It's like a paintbrush drawing traces one after another on the pure white paper. The whole process is very coherent, just like you are holding a pen and drawing the sketch directly on the white paper on the screen. You can't tell that this is touch control at all, and you can't tell what is going on?

You know, to draw a sketch on a computer, you must use professional props. But judging from the scene in front of you, it seems that there are no professional props. Even Ye Qiu's body can't see any big movements. He The old god was still sitting there, not even moving his butt or raising his hand.

Oh, by the way, it seems that his hand is not placed on the edge of the sofa, but slightly higher. Moreover, when the action is displayed on the computer screen, his hand also moves slightly. He is remotely controlling the computer display. Screen?

As Ye Qiu drew circles and circles of sketches, there was a burst of cheers from the scene. It was obvious that this was the cheers from the R\u0026D department, because it almost meant that they had succeeded!

As soon as Ye Qiu stopped his hand, he saw that he raised his right hand slightly and grasped it with five fingers, as if he were making a five-finger touch on the screen of a tablet or mobile phone. Everyone who owns a Zeus mobile phone knows that this five-finger grasping action It means quitting.

Sure enough, as soon as he grabbed it, everything on the display automatically exited and returned to the Android system desktop.

"Awesome!" Ye Qiu couldn't help but exclaimed.

There was a burst of exclamation and cheers at the same time.

No one thought that in less than five months, the people in the R\u0026D department could come up with such a product. It is indeed admirable for them. More importantly, this product The effect is even more surprising than expected, because it greatly surpasses Microsoft's previously released Kinect, which is a motion controller, in many aspects.

When Ye Qiu stood up from the sofa and clapped vigorously, everyone noticed that far to the right of the sofa where he had just been sitting, just below the area covered by his palm, there was a It’s a boxy, rectangular box about the size of a five-inch mobile phone.

This box looks a bit rough. The top layer is black, a bit like tempered glass, and the surrounding is made of aluminum alloy. There is a USB cable at the bottom. This USB cable is directly connected to the computer, but it can Ye Qiu sat far away from the display screen and computer host and directly controlled the operation.

No wonder Ye Qiu didn't move when he was sitting just now, because the box was placed under the palm of his hand. He only needed to raise his hand slightly to control it directly, without the need for other somatosensory devices. , you have to raise your hands high or get close to the somatosensory device to sense it.

More importantly, it does not require any pre-selected settings, just like magic, you can directly use it to touch everything in the Android system, without any delay, and with extremely high accuracy, using the research and development of Yezi Technology What the staff said is that if a so-called 3D user interface can be created in the future, it will be the best way to control it.

Being able to produce such a product in less than five months is not only due to the strong R\u0026D and innovation team of Yezi Technology, but also to the encouragement and affirmation of many people at this moment. The leader of this R\u0026D team named Beyond is Michael Buckward.

"Congratulations and thank you, Dr. Buckward!" Ye Qiu extended his right hand to this young American who looked like a university professor and was dressed casually and even a little slovenly. The product was born out of his doctoral thesis.

"Thank you, Mr. Ye Qiu. Without your support and encouragement, there would be no [Transcendence]!" Buckward also looked very excited, because this product is his brainchild, but only Ye Zi Technology is willing to invest money to help He developed.

Mainly because the current motion controller market is still very new. Although Nintendo and Microsoft have successively released news about motion controllers, no one pays much attention to this field, because now almost all big companies are rushing into it. Go get smartphones and tablets.

For example, Apple has also launched its own IOS mobile operating system and will launch mobile phone products in a short time; Microsoft has also launched its own WP mobile operating system, and Google is also launching its own mobile operating system. Almost all of them are rushing to launch their own mobile operating system. , so touch is now the most mainstream control mode.

Another limitation is that motion controllers often have poor practicality. Just like Microsoft and Nintendo, they are installed on or near the TV. Even everyone knows that the products they launch are game consoles. needs, it can be regarded as a peripheral product, and the effective range of the somatosensory controller is also limited.

However, in Michael Buckward's paper, he felt that this control method may change the interaction mode between humans and computers, so he believed that a better somatosensory control mode should be three-dimensional, high-precision, and It must be latency-free and able to get rid of all the limitations of existing motion controllers.

To put it bluntly, this product is actually very simple. There are three cameras in the box for stereoscopic capture, and then through a set of rigorous measurements and calculations, it finally recognizes finger movements.

In addition to Dr. Michael Buckward, the entire Beyond team also includes David Holtz who once worked for NASA, Andy Miller who once worked for Apple, etc., all of whom are talented people in various fields. , after joining Ye Ye Technology, due to various reasons and needs, we got together and came up with this product in less than five months.

“I think this is a technology and product specifically designed for large-screen remote control!”

Jonathan Ive has personally operated this product before, and even participated in the product's appearance design, and he has always been thinking about how to design it into other products, such as the legendary smart phone television.

What's the biggest problem with smart TVs?

It’s not about your content, it’s not about your system, it’s not about what hardware configuration you use, it’s about your interactive system!

Jonathan Ivey picked up the sample, weighed it in his hand, shook his head and said: "But at least judging from the current situation, it needs to continue. We must make it smaller and make it smaller." More convenient, more accurate, and more practical!”

According to current estimates, if such a product is simply sold, the cost is expected to be around two hundred U.S. dollars. In other words, if this set of technologies is to be used, the cost will be more than two hundred U.S. dollars higher. By then, the product's selling price will be Very high and not cost-effective.

However, the future of this technology is definitely worthy of recognition, because if it can be made small and compact, then if it is placed in a TV, you can sit on the sofa and remotely control the TV like Ye Qiu did just now, without having to face the TV. Raise your voice, or raise your right hand to gesture.

Of course, corresponding changes and adjustments must be made to the smart TV operating system by then, but this is very simple. The key is that the emergence of this technology will completely bring about changes in the field of smart TVs and change the interaction between TVs and users. Way.

"Continue research and development. At present, the conditions for smart TVs are not mature enough, so we are not in a hurry, but we must quickly master this technology and apply for all patents. When the time is ripe, it will be opened to the outside world and attract more entrepreneurs. and R\u0026D personnel to develop more and better applications on our platform.”

What is the most important thing about the so-called smart ecosystem?

It's service!

Many people find it strange that most of the applications in Yezi Technology’s Android store charge money?

Is it really just because Ye Zi Technology covets that huge astronomical figure?

Not only that, but an ecological balance, because developers develop more applications, the purpose is to make money in the final analysis, you have to let them make money, they will be interested in continuing to develop, if it is all free, they lack Motivation and lack of stimulation. Once a product is developed, interest will be lost.

Florentino said that the most expensive is actually the cheapest, but conversely, the cheapest is actually the most expensive, especially when you think you are enjoying a free lunch, in fact What you taste is the most expensive lunch in the world, but they tell you in various ways that my lunch is free!

Ye Qiu has always adhered to the principle of moderate openness, because excessive openness will lead to flooding, but excessive closure will lead to complacency, isolation, and ultimately a lack of innovation capabilities.

Therefore, the Yezi Technology he created actually adopts such an approach, emphasizing creativity and moderate openness, not only in terms of company strategy, but also in management and personnel. The management of Yezi Technology is quite open. Almost anyone, as long as you can come up with an effective plan, can basically get the opportunity to try and prove yourself, and get the company's R\u0026D financial support.

Here, we must say one more thing, that is, many people have a misunderstanding of Internet companies like Leaf Technology.

Many people look at Leaf Technology and Google with the same attitude as they look at regular companies, thinking, wow, investing $10 billion a year in research and development, but developing a lot of impractical products, what's the use? Can't make profits? Sooner or later, it will collapse!

Wrong!

People who have this idea don't understand the operating model of Leaf Technology at all!

To give a simple example, Leaf Technology has acquired so many companies and technologies, accumulated countless patents and technical capabilities, what is the most profitable thing for this company?

The answer is simple, everyone knows that Zeus mobile phones and tablets are currently the only two products that make money.

But you have to know that the number of employees behind these two products only accounts for less than 10% of the company's employees, so what are the others doing? R\u0026D, innovation, integration...

This involves the company's internal management model, so Ye Qiu always needs Eliza to be in the United States, because Eliza knows Ye Qiu best and understands Ye Qiu best. She has seen Leaf Technology grow from nothing to something, from small to large. She may even know Leaf Technology better than Ye Qiu. She can control all of this, and only she can!

It's not just Leaf Technology. Although many investors now complain about Google's wanton waste of R\u0026D funds, which has led to the company's inability to keep up with many innovations, they still encourage innovation. What supports their innovation? It is the profits created by 7% of their employees engaged in search business!

In other words, the remaining 93% of employees are losing money, which is even more outrageous than Leaf Technology.

The same situation applies to Microsoft, Apple, IBM, etc. Almost all Internet companies are like this, using the high profits of the core business to create a foundation, and then engaging in various innovative R\u0026D.

Then, the question comes. Many people find it strange. Leaf Technology has entered the field of smart cars, driverless cars, and smart TVs. Can't the leaders of the traditional automobile and TV industries do it?

Look at how many world-class car manufacturers have joined the smart car alliance led by Leaf Technology. Almost all the world's major brands have joined. Why? The reason is simple. They cannot bear the financial pressure brought by such huge innovation, because their profits are relatively meager, and compared with Leaf Technology, they are even more insignificant.

According to authoritative data in 2008, the profit margin of automobiles ranked 46th among the 50 industries, which is negative 0.07%, while the profit of Internet services is positive 19.4%. You can just look at how big the gap is, and the Internet takes the average value, not the highly profitable companies like Leaf Technology and Google.

Therefore, in the field of smart cars, Leaf Technology and Google are at the forefront. Those traditional automobile companies can only choose to cooperate, and it is impossible to continue to dominate this market. This can be seen clearly from their finances.

Of course, all industries have risks. Microsoft's risk is that its operating system and OFFICE will not be defeated by others, Google's risk is that its search business will not be surpassed by others, and Leaf Technology's risk is that its smartphone and tablet computer markets will be defeated by others. All of them have risks, but relatively speaking, Internet companies are the most dynamic and innovative in all industries.

At present, Leaf Technology's intelligent car system has launched a test version for some car companies and important R\u0026D personnel, but it will take a long time to reach the Internet of Vehicles, at least one or two years. After all, the top priority of cars is safety, which is related to the lives of users, and must be used with extreme caution.

It was a rare trip to the United States, and Ye Qiu went to the site for a test drive. He felt that there was nothing different, just more functions and services, and a set of intelligent systems integrated into the car.

By the way, Leaf Technology has also officially launched its own map business, which has also led to a lot of business overlap between Leaf Technology, Google, Microsoft, Apple and other major Internet companies, and the competition between them is very fierce, even tragic.

Among them, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer publicly stated that Microsoft's smartphone operating system is an important strategic department of Microsoft, and will become Microsoft's most important core business, and will accelerate research and development and promotion.

This is no wonder. Leaf Technology is now playing everything, and in the future it wants to cross the border to engage in ultrabooks. This has already moved Microsoft's cheese and alienated the alliance between Microsoft and Intel. But now it's good, even the free version of OFFICE has been released. Aren't you going to tear down Microsoft's platform?

With the attitude of "If you don't let me have a good life, I will never let you worry about it", Microsoft focuses on entering the smartphone market, which is understandable. On the contrary, if Microsoft doesn't do this, then Microsoft will no longer be Microsoft.

Ye Qiu is not worried about the competition in smartphones at all. With the current technical reserves of Leaf Technology, the next five or even ten years will still be a period of rapid development of Leaf Technology. It is difficult for others to shake the position of Leaf Technology, so the most important thing for Leaf Technology now is not to target Microsoft or anyone else, but to focus on improving its own smart ecosystem.

As long as this core business is done, what is there to be afraid of Microsoft, Apple, Google...?