"...Sure enough, it's still too early."

Dr. Shigemura leaned back in his chair and sighed, his expression full of disappointment. With his skinny and rickety body, he looked like an old beggar who had suffered a life of hardship and was about to starve to death on the street.

He looked miserable and extremely pitiful.

But! Don’t be fooled!

"But! I won't give up!"

It was as if his affectionate storytelling suddenly took a turn, and Dr. Shigemura regained his fighting spirit.

Yes, it's just a superficial appearance. He's just telling a story about his own research.

Just looking at the surface, who can imagine how many high-tech technologies he has accomplished in his life that have impacted human history?!

This kind of story of getting back up after failure happened to him eight times if not ten times.

"I'm not dead yet! I still have time! Maybe I will succeed just before I die!"

The elderly love to tell stories, especially their own heroic epics, lamenting the changes of the times, showing a little bit of the hero's decline and enigmatic expression, and pretending to be 1 in front of the younger generation...This old man is the same.

Didn't you notice that everyone here, including his disciples, ignored him?

"Since it is certain that the cause of the failure is insufficient hardware specifications, then I will go back and continue to study higher-standard quantum computers and virtual reality equipment...

Unfortunately, higher-standard equipment cannot be completed as soon as it is completed. If we only pursue high power, the properties of the materials and the strength of the process will also become problems.

But the research process was not without its gains.

After a period of exploration, I have completed a miniaturized virtual reality device. Maybe it is more appropriate to call it [NeuralLink]?"

Dr. Shigemura prepared a design drawing and a concept drawing on a tablet, handed them to Hoshike, and also gave a copy to the students.

This electronic product on the drawing? Its appearance is really strange.

It is completely a rough machine that has not been designed by a designer, and some parts are not even that symmetrical.

But due to how it is worn and used, its basic shape has been determined...

"This... is a collar?"

Strictly speaking, this is a half collar.

The neck and throat are not closed, only the back of the head and sides fit this electronic device.

If the shape is metaphorical, it is like a headband, but it is worn around the neck.

Do you think this is necessary for design? After all, the virtual reality device must have a place to fit the skin above the central nervous system, and the device must also be worn near the back of the head.

"The [NeuralLink] is equipped with a miniaturized, low-power electromagnetic pulse generator and a quantum computer processor, which is necessary to achieve complete stealth, and the effect is not much different.

But after all, it is much smaller. In terms of body heat dissipation, high-frequency operation load, product manufacturing process and raw material rarity, it is of course much higher than ordinary virtual reality equipment..."

"Haha, just say it is expensive, has many shortcomings, and the effect has not been improved! I understand."

"Well...that's true."

Xingke rolled his eyes. Dr. Shigemura was very oblique about the budget. As for that? It's not like I don't understand the difficulties in this regard.

It’s natural that this thing called [NeuralLink] is expensive. It’s like the difference between a laptop computer and a desktop computer.

No matter what kind of configuration it is, a "low power consumption" label will be added to the laptop, which will also reduce the running speed by several levels and increase the price by several levels.

The reason is this [low power consumption].

Because the size is too small, the heat dissipation is very slow. If the power is not limited, is it possible that the laptop will immediately turn into a stove, and then turn into a brick?

The situation of this [NeuralLink] is similar to that of a laptop, but there are also differences.

Can general household nanometer-level CPUs and miniature quantum computers used in virtual reality devices be the same?

One is a remnant of the previous era, and the other is the next-generation dream machine that has appeared in advance, which is of course different.

In order to shrink quantum computers...

"Did you use any rare materials?"

"Haha... To be precise, there is no material in the core of this thing that we don't cherish.

And the machine tools used to process them are all of the smallest grade. The failure rate is high and the speed is also slow."

"Bring me your estimate..."

"You turn back."

"Oh...a nice apartment in a high-end residential area near Ginza, and the down payment is only this amount.

It’s not really expensive, but... the customer base is still small, and it’s not worth selling this thing if you have money. Ordinary stealth equipment with the same effect should cost one percent of this, okay?”

"Well... Actually, this thing has another function compared to ordinary stealth equipment. It is valuable because of its small size. That is - the [Augmented Reality (AR)] function... Stop, stop, don't use it

Looking at me like this, I know this is not a rare concept."

Dr. Shigemura coughed twice and continued:

"It is different from the AR forms currently on the market that are presented on the screen through cameras, and it is also different from the virtual projection technology you used before. This function directly sends image signals to the human visual nerve and the retina.

The visual signals conveyed to the optic nerve are combined to form a new picture.

It has the same effect as playing a first-person game on a computer screen... By the way, isn't it in the plan (prophecy) book you gave me?

It’s just that you call it [incomplete stealth technology].”

"Yes, I did mention it, but shouldn't this technology be born after the brain-implanted quantum computer... Forget it, never mind."

The technology trees are all crooked, and it is natural that the technological processes in the two worlds are different.

Similar yet different.

"But, even if you say so, this thing is still too expensive for the price of goods in this era..."

Reality expansion technology is different from virtual reality technology. This technology can obviously change people's lives and quickly occupy the existing mobile terminal market.

Unlike virtual reality equipment, it was only pursued by a group of avid gamers in the early days, and people who did not play games would not care too much.

Because the price is really a bit high, even if the star is not making money, the price is still high... Uh, no, wait a minute.

…

…

"Damn, am I stupid!? Old man Shigemura!"

"Ah? What's wrong⊙_⊙?"

Dr. Shigemura was startled by Hoshiki's sudden slam on the table.

"It must be the stupidity of you, an old man, that has infected me.

A large part of the value of this [NeuralLink] only lies in the bonus-like [Augmented Reality (AR)] function, while its cost is spent on a miniature version of the [Virtual Reality (VR)] function.

superior.

Can’t you make the [Augmented Reality (AR)] function independent?”

Silence falls.

The scene was very embarrassing for a time.

After a long time, Dr. Shigemura said with a shy face and a smile:

"Okay, of course, it's just a small thing.

But am I not a scientist? I didn’t expect this, haha..."
Chapter completed!