Technology Bigshot Chapter 90: : $2 billion in orders (two

Chapter 90: $2 Billion Orders (Chapter Two Merged)

Meanwhile, the Western Hemisphere, where the sun rises three poles.

United States, Pentagon.

A black car drove into the government-controlled area. The driver showed the license plate and evidence, and was immediately let through. The black car finally drove steadily into the Pentagon-controlled area. Several white men in black suits and black sunglasses in the car entered the interior of the Pentagon silently.

The white men came to an office in the building. After a while, the female staff in the building came to an office on the fourth floor with one of the men with a silver lockbox. A middle-aged man in his forties was in the office. He was wearing a military uniform and the rank on his shoulder indicated that he was an active colonel officer.

The staff then left. The man in black entered the office and shook hands with the colonel. The two talked briefly for a while. The man in black handed him the silver lockbox in his hand. The clothed man finally left.

The colonel watched the man in black leave the office, and finally focused his eyes on the silver password box. He opened the silver box according to the password obtained. Inside, there were several paper files.

He opened the files and browsed them one by one. The files listed detailed information and proof of personal identity, as well as eleven colorful high-definition pictures of people. All the people in the pictures were yellow faces, ten men and one A woman, from the photos, these people are young faces.

The colonel seemed to be looking for something in these files. Eventually, he saw a striking authority seal in a document. The seal represented a clear authorization instruction. After confirming, he immediately entered the desk and faced one of the A computer with a striking desktop icon—the Navy SEAL badge.

Not only did strangers come to the Pentagon with documents and a warrant, a similar scene was happening at the CIA in the United States. These U.S. government agencies with gray activity signs have been visited by many people in recent times. The internal staff of these agencies do not understand the exact things, but the orders and authorizations from above are beyond doubt.

Their goals are the same, to guide a technology company in the China Sea region, which is Matrix Technology XlouS!

The reason why gray activities are called "gray" is that these activities are always carried out outside the public's view. There are organized and purposeful activities. The public can't see them, which does not mean that they do not exist.

No matter what, the earth is constantly turning, and people's lives will not stop.

These days, driven by the news effect of the Hollywood outbreak, Panorama Vision PV has become a hot topic recently. Although very few people have actually experienced the Panoramic Vision PV 's videos have been viewed and reposted by countless people.

The three popular technologies represented by visual impact, namely panoramic vision PV, augmented reality AR, and virtual reality VR, are known as the delta of the most cutting-edge visual experience equipment. The former is the latest concept proposed by China Matrix Technology and is the first and only company with a mature technology system. The latter two are currently involved in most technology companies in the world, and the competition is extremely fierce. The two fields of augmented reality AR and virtual reality VR are currently led by Magic-Leap in the United States and a subsidiary of Facebook.

Matrix Technologies XlouS headquarters.

Cameron came to Matrix Technology less than three days after returning to the United States. He not only came, but also brought a small team. Obviously, Cameron is here to learn more about the panoramic view PV, which is crucial for his upcoming "Avatar" sequel.

If the sequel to "Avatar" wants to take the first bus of the panoramic view PV, it is not so easy, especially for Cameron, this is a brand-new visual effect, and the picture and scene are no longer limited to a plane Or a giant curved screen, but a multi-dimensional stereoscopic horizon.

This will mean the use of a completely new shooting technique, which is a true stereoscopic impact, where the audience is integrated rather than confined to a giant screen. Editing techniques and scene replacements are particularly important. The use of long takes may More frequently, in short, one shot of "Avatar 2" is enough, but there will be two different editing videos, one is screened under the regular screening hall, and the other is screened under the panoramic view PV. .

The screen projection and stereoscopic viewing are necessarily different. The giant screen will not be suitable for viewing under the panoramic view PV, which means that the same movie will be presented in two different forms of editing. Because of its particularity, the Horizon PV auditorium must be adapted for stereoscopic viewing.

In this way, the post-editing processing of a movie will be doubled, which will also mean that the production cycle of a movie will be longer. Similarly, it will test the director's skills more.

At the moment, Cameron, Ren Hong, and other people from the theater chain are surrounding a miniature panoramic view PV theater model, and there is a huge high-precision display screen hanging on the wall in the room. , the three-dimensional modeling of the panoramic view PV auditorium is presented on the screen.

"A screening hall will accommodate about 300 audiences. The impact of too many people is inevitable. The audience is outsiders based on the movie. Too many audiences will inevitably affect the viewing experience, and a small number of people will inevitably Affecting the revenue of the theater side, this is a very contradictory issue, we can't just play a two-and-a-half-hour movie for a few audiences and the price is the normal price, it will lose everything." The representative of the theater party said.

"This contradiction must be resolved." He emphasized again.

"Is there any way to hide the audience? Or technology?" Cameron looked at Ren Hong and said.

In this case, the contradiction is naturally resolved.

"No!" Ren Hong replied decisively, he said: "And, even if it can be done, the audience has to wear special hardware clothing every time they enter the auditorium to watch the movie. Maybe it can be done, but this is obviously too much. Trouble, it's not a good idea, what we want is that the audience can watch the movie normally without bringing any peripheral items after entering the PV theater."

Everyone is also nodding in agreement, and adding other questions to avoid this problem is definitely not a good idea.

"So, we still have to start with the arrangement of the seats in the projection hall." Ren Hong added.

Obviously, Cameron's arrival is for the discussion of Panorama Vision PV. This discussion will be the process of formulating standards for PV auditoriums. Once the standards are established, as long as you want to enter the cinema and film shooting of Panorama Vision PV in the future And editing techniques will also follow its basic standards.

As long as it is a panoramic view PV auditorium for the public, its hardware layout cannot be arbitrary, and the negative effects brought about by the multi-person viewing experience must be considered. After all, too many outsiders will meet in the "movie world" It seems very inconsistent, and it will affect the viewing effect.

After two days of negotiation on the layout of the public screening hall, the result was finally reached, and everyone basically reached an agreement.

The layout of the PV projection room is not much different from the traditional 3D-iMax projection room. The formulation of such basic standards also follows the existing objective factors. After all, it is impossible for only a few people to watch the movie in the public projection room, so the cinema does not need to do so. After the business is completed, only the rich people in Dubai and the world's rich can enjoy a 360-degree audio-visual experience without dead ends. Therefore, the objective problem of profitability is unavoidable, and the PV theater must be able to accommodate more audiences in order to achieve commercialization.

In the process of developing the standard. Based on the objective factor of the wide angle of sight of human eyes, the visual wide angle of human eyes is usually around 160 degrees, and theoretically the wide angle can reach 180 degrees. Just look ahead. This standard is also crucial to the director's shooting techniques and lens presentation issues.

With this standard established, the director can shoot and edit effectively.

The final basic standard is established as follows: The Panorama Vision PV projection hall will accommodate a maximum of 330 audiences, and the audience seats are distributed in a standard 37-degree angle. The difference from the traditional theater is that there is no screen in front of the audience's field of vision, or there is a screen in the field of vision. Another point is that there is a crucial feature in the audience seat position, that is, the audience in the upper echelon of seats cannot see the audience in the next echelon at all, and this arrangement will create an illusion of visual deception for the audience. The effect is that an audience can be regarded as the first row regardless of the actual seat row. In this way, the sense of disobedience is greatly reduced, but the space occupancy rate of the auditorium will also be expanded, but it is also acceptable. .

The images presented by the Panorama Vision PV are three-dimensional. At the beginning of the film, the audience's vision is integrated with the movie world, and the objective factors brought about by the distance of the seats can almost be ignored.

Because the audience is in the world of cinema.

It is worth mentioning that, with the concept of the audience looking forward and the wide-angle factor based on the objectivity of the human eye, the director only needs to make a theoretical 180-degree field of view that actually floats up and down based on the theoretical wide-angle. This makes it easier for the director to edit and shoot shots. After all, the difficulty of 360-degree panorama presentation and 180-degree panorama presentation is not as simple as dividing by two.

However, the audience's head cannot be fixed, and the horizon will always expand as the head swings left and right. For this reason, the viewing angle of the movie world must be higher than the theoretical 180 degrees.

It took three days to formulate the standard for the Panoramic Vision PV auditorium. After the standard was established, Cameron had no reason to stay at Matrix Technology anymore. He took his team to leave China first.

The heads of several major cinema companies in the United States did not leave immediately. The reason why they did not leave was naturally related to the construction of the Panorama Vision PV auditorium.

In the end, despite the negotiation and negotiation between the two parties, Emperor Cinemas first signed the first PV order contract with Matrix Technology. The 30 venues where Emperor Cinemas originally intended to build the iMax projection hall will become the construction address of the Panorama Vision PV projection hall , and added 10 additional venues, Matrix Technology sold a panoramic view PV projection equipment at a price of 4.35 million US dollars, plus other purchased seats, renovations and on-site arrangements, the cinema company added a PV projection hall The final price The cost is around $4.9 million.

This time, Matrix Technology signed a total of 116 PV theater contracts with these major American theater companies, with a total of 500 million US dollars.

According to the content of the contract, one year later, Matrix Technology will send a team to the United States to set up a PV theater.

As this group of people left China with satisfaction, it didn't take long for Emperor Cinemas to announce the news of the construction of a PV theater in one year, and another group of people arrived at Matrix Technology five days later. The heads of major cinema companies around the world are coming to the panoramic view PV, and Wanda International Cinemas, the world's largest cinema company, is also on the list.

The approach of these people is exactly the same as that of the Imperial Cinemas. They have not hesitated to abandon the iMax and the Chinese giant screen. For the same level and the same price theater, they only choose the panoramic view PV. This is the mainstream trend in the future. However.

For these theater companies to "team up" together, I have to say 21st Century Fox Film Company, CEO Lacklun has become a salesman of Matrix Technology for free. After all, the number of Panorama Vision PV screening halls in the future will affect the box office data of "Avatar 2". As the first Panoramic Vision PV movie to be released, Lack Wheel can smell banknotes every time he thinks about it, the more PV screening halls there are. , "Avatar" the higher the box office, there is no doubt.

Why not enjoy a win-win situation?

According to Lachlan's vision, on the day of the release of "Avatar 2", the PV theaters around the world must have more than 700 screens to have a sufficient impact on the box office.

This time, a team led by Wanda International Cinema Company came to Matrix Technology and finally successfully finalized a large order.

The Wanda International Cinema Company, which is backed by the Wanda Group, is indeed rich and powerful. It signed 150 pieces of PV projection equipment in one go, and other cinema companies from all over the world have also placed orders. Matrix Technology has not even set up a PV production line, and a total of 503 pieces of PV projection equipment have been successfully finalized.

503 pieces of PV projection equipment, Matrix Technology has thus obtained a huge revenue of 2 billion US dollars. These theater companies are not afraid, because the high liquidated damages in the contract are guarantees, and Matrix Technology is a technology giant company worth 500 billion US dollars, so its credibility naturally does not need to be questioned.

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(To be continued...)

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