Chapter 330 VR Internet Cafe
Chapter 330 VR Internet Cafe
Meng Jie was stunned after listening to Kang Chi’s suggestion.
Fenghuo Network has just completed the integration and reorganization with Yinghuo Technology. In the future, one of the two parties will focus on program applications and the other will focus on hardware equipment. There are indeed certain conditions and foundations for running VR Internet cafes.
In fact, Yinghuo Technology has also adopted a large number of cooperative franchises to set up “VR Experience Halls” in shopping malls.
“Is there any difference between your VR Internet cafe and the VR experience center that Firefly had before?”
”Of course there is a difference.” Kang Chi explained, “The main feature of the VR experience center is an experience, and the cost of a single experience is extremely high, so the only way to reduce the cost of a single experience by issuing a card is to attract users to repeat consumption.”
”Why do you do this? Isn’t it because there is no technology and no content, so you can only cut consumers’ leeks like the gym card model.”
”To be honest, this actually makes the public lose their enthusiasm for VR consumption, so Firefly must not go down this path in the future.”
”To run a VR Internet cafe, you have to The price factor is only auxiliary to fully lower the user experience threshold and attract users to repeat consumption. The more important thing is the content and experience. ”
“Just like when we went to the Internet cafe before, we might consider which Internet cafe is cheaper, but once we are addicted to the Internet, even if the cheap Internet cafe is closed, we will still choose the more expensive Internet cafe to surf the Internet… because what really attracts us is the brand new and exciting experience of playing games online.”
Although Kang Chi said it lightly, Meng Jie was not particularly excited. The core point of this issue is whether they can bring users a “brand new and exciting experience”, and Meng Jie is not sure about this at all.
In addition, opening an ordinary Internet cafe will cost tens of millions of dollars. If you change to VR, it is entirely possible to double or even dozens of times.
If you want to expand across the country, even if you only open one in each city in the early stage, more than 600 cities will have to prepare tens of billions of dollars at least. This scale of investment is not a joke.
Seeing Meng Jie’s solemn expression, Kang Chi naturally guessed his concerns, so he asked him to sit at the control console of the dreadnought. After a brief explanation, he asked him to put on the VR helmet and control the heavy war robot to walk a few steps.
Then Meng Jie immediately understood where Kang Chi’s confidence came from.
This thing is simply awesome…
With such advanced technology, why worry about no one coming to the VR Internet cafe! Although the dreadnought in the laboratory did not have ammunition, Kang Chi was worried that he would damage the laboratory equipment due to operating errors, so he quickly ended Meng Jie’s VR experience.
When taking off the helmet, Meng Jie immediately said with a look of lingering satisfaction: “Mr. Kang is really amazing, this is real VR…”
It was only then that he really began to consider the impact of this incident on all parties.
Then his eyes became brighter and brighter as he thought about it…
Because this trick is not only simple and crude, but also a strategy that kills many birds with one stone.
What was the biggest reason why Internet cafes were so popular in the past? People’s acceptance of the Internet is not high, and the Internet ecosystem is just starting, so the attraction is not high enough.
But the biggest reason is that the cost of a computer was too high at that time.
In 2000, a computer with ordinary configuration cost about 5,000 yuan. Although it is similar to now, the average monthly salary at that time was only a few hundred yuan.
So ordinary people who want to buy a personal computer have to save money for at least a year.
Under this circumstance, how could Internet cafes not be popular.
Later, as everyone’s income increased, the consumption threshold of electronic products was lowered, and everyone had a mobile phone and a computer, so Internet cafes naturally declined.
And the current VR equipment is actually the same reason.
Although Meng Jie doesn’t know the cost of this simulation cabin, it must cost hundreds of thousands or even millions. Such an expensive thing is definitely not affordable for ordinary people, So the sharing economy of Internet cafes is the best way to promote it.
In addition, in this model, in addition to Firefly Technology making money by selling equipment and Internet cafes making profits, the military can also use this system to screen talents, and even let users train themselves to become “reserve soldiers” at their own expense. It’s really cool. For users, this newThe main point of consumer experience is that both parties are willing.
Once this consumer scenario is established, the scale of the entire industry chain, including Internet cafes, consumers, hardware providers, software service providers, etc., may be so large that it is unimaginable.
It is entirely possible to create a new trillion or even tens of trillions of consumer market.
“In order to promote this plan as soon as possible, I will also try to apply for subsidies from above to reduce the cost of users. We can’t let them get it for free… In addition, chain VR Internet cafes can also adopt the form of franchising to allow more people and resources in the society to join in and make the market bigger together.”
”Tomorrow, you will bring the technical director of Firefly to get the information, mass-produce the simulation cabin as soon as possible, and develop applications for the simulation cabin. If there is not enough funds, apply to Zhang Qing… But you also have shares. If you invest in proportion, can you afford it?”
”No problem, you don’t have to consider me.” Meng Jie explained without hesitation, “Such a good opportunity, I have to follow up even if I have to sell everything I have.”
Kang Chi smiled and said nothing more.
According to Meng Jie’s 5% stake, for every 100 million yuan invested by the company, he will also invest 5 million in the same proportion.
And the industries that Kang Chi is involved in all start at more than 1 billion, which is quite stressful for Meng Jie.
But there is motivation only when there is pressure.
After Meng Jie left, Kang Chi packed up briefly and called Captain Du through the internal line. After confirming that the new recruits had officially reported, he went directly to the training ground.
After arriving at the training ground, Kang Chi saw a group of e-sports young men slumped on the grass from a distance, with a look of despair…
An instructor saw Kang Chi and shouted: “Assemble!”
”Instructor, I haven’t rested enough, my legs are still shaking…”
The instructor was immediately angry after hearing this: “I said assemble! You haven’t run enough, right?”
After hearing this, the new recruits’ faces suddenly changed, and they all stood up and assembled.
Soon someone noticed Kang Chi walking towards them, and then their expressions suddenly became excited.
It was indeed him! “Salute!” After Kang Chi approached, several instructors immediately took the lead to salute Kang Chi, “Hello, Chief Engineer Kang!”
Kang Chi nodded to them, and then looked at the one hundred pairs of eyes full of curiosity and expectation.
”Hello everyone, welcome to the Pingfeng Mountain Base to participate in my equipment experiment.”
”I believe that what you are most curious about now is what kind of equipment experiment you will conduct next. Now I will take you to experience it briefly.” After Kang Chi finished speaking, he said to several instructors, “Take the team to the test site.”
”Received!”
(End of this chapter)