108: Chapter 108 Is Virtual Technology About to Be Implemented?

The second day of the Lunar New Year.

Sunlight filtered through the window lattice, spilling onto the wooden floor of the Lu family's old house. The air still held a faint scent of sulfur from the fireworks that had dispersed the night before.

According to tradition, married daughters return to their maiden homes.

However, Su Qingxue's father had passed away, and she didn't have a good relationship with her mother.

Consequently, Lu Li's two aunts became the protagonists of this tradition.

Second Aunt Lu Guang and the youngest aunt were busy in the kitchen early in the morning.

Chen Wanqing tried to help a few times but was pushed out by the two aunts.

"Sister-in-law, you should rest. Just sit there comfortably today and wait for the meal!"

Second Aunt, wearing an apron, tossed the spoon in her hand as the oil in the pot crackled.

The youngest aunt was cutting shredded potatoes nearby with deft knife skills.

"That's right, sister-in-law. You've worked hard enough taking care of us these past few days. Let us handle it today."

Chen Wanqing couldn't refuse, so she sat in the living room to keep Su Qingxue company.

Lu Jianjun was smoking and chatting with the two uncles on the balcony.

Amidst the swirling smoke, the three middle-aged men discussed national affairs, occasionally erupting into hearty laughter.

In the living room.

Lu Li was slumped on the sofa without a shred of decorum, half his body sinking into the soft cushions.

Doraemon crouched beside the sofa, looking reluctant, his two round palms rhythmically patting Lu Li's calves.

Lu Li squinted in comfort, though his mind was thinking about how the logical feedback of this massage algorithm was still a bit stiff; he would need to add a pressure sensor compensation later.

Su Qingxue sat beside him, holding a teacup, her gaze drifting toward him from time to time.

"Honey, about that Virtual Helmet you let me experience last time... can Professor Lin and his team really pull it off?"

Su Qingxue set down her teacup, her voice very low.

She had used that helmet; the shock of having her consciousness pulled directly into another dimension still made her soul tremble.

Lu Li yawned lazily, a tear squeezing out from the corner of his eye.

"As long as Old Lin doesn't get stuck in a rut, the progress won't be slow."

If he weren't trying to save energy and be lazy, if he had gone to the laboratory himself, he could probably have conquered nineteen of the key technologies in half a month.

After all, in his previous life, he had worked on products related to the Virtual Helmet, but back then it was retinal projection technology; this one was a Neural Mesh, far more advanced than retinal projection.

...

On the lunch table, the sauce for the braised fish was rich, and the sweet and sour pork ribs glistened with an enticing sheen.

Second Aunt and the youngest aunt had excellent culinary skills, and soon the table was full of dishes.

"Dinner is served!"

Second Aunt untied her apron and called everyone over.

The family gathered around the dining table, the atmosphere lively.

Second Aunt picked up a piece of the fattest fish belly meat and placed it steadily into Lu Li's bowl.

"Xiao Li, eat more. You've been working so hard with Qingxue running the company these years, look at how thin your face has become."

Lu Li: "..."

There is a kind of thinness called "your elders think you are thin."

Besides, when had he worked hard? It was clearly hard work "eating soft rice."

However, in the eyes of ordinary people, he was probably the image of a technical genius and a tech godfather, right?

In reality, he just wanted to lie in Su Qingxue's arms and have her massage his head.

But with their parents present, they couldn't be that intimate in front of their elders.

Su Qingxue covered her mouth and chuckled, her eyebrows curved, completely shedding the decisive demeanor of the CEO of Guanghui Technology.

The youngest aunt also put food in Su Qingxue's bowl: "Qingxue, you should eat more too. Don't always think about losing weight, young lady."

"Thank you, Aunt."

Su Qingxue politely held the bowl with both hands to receive the food.

Halfway through the meal.

"Sister-in-law, my sister and I have discussed it, we want to go to the mall this afternoon to buy some large appliances for the house. Do you think the washing machine or the TV needs replacing?"

Second Aunt put down her chopsticks, looking serious.

Lu Jianjun paused with his wine glass, his tone plain: "Really, no need. The house doesn't lack anything now; there's more money than we could ever spend."

If someone else said this, it would be bragging, but in the Lu family, it was a fact.

Second Aunt and the youngest aunt looked at each other, feeling both gratified and emotional.

They knew Lu Li was successful now, and his net worth had long exceeded their imagination.

But as elders, they always felt that if they didn't buy something for the kids, and kept receiving so many Robots and mobile phones, the New Year wouldn't feel right.

Lu Li looked at the awkward yet sincere eyes of the two elders, and a ripple stirred in his heart.

This feeling of being surrounded by pure family affection was something he could never have traded for in his entire life spent in a cold laboratory in his previous life.

"Second Aunt, forget about buying things. If you really want to help, just leave Wang Peng here and let Yaoguang have him do a few more sets of practice papers."

Lu Li pointed at Wang Peng, who was burying his head in his meal, with a mischievous smile.

The pork rib in Wang Peng's hand instantly lost its flavor.

After the meal.

Lu Li returned to the bedroom. Just as he closed his eyes, his phone began to vibrate wildly beside the pillow.

The screen displayed the words "Old Lin".

This was the team established a month ago due to the Virtual Helmet project. There were 29 core members, but there were hundreds of people in departments surrounding the core research.

"President Lu, this is Professor Lin, the technical director of the Guanghui Virtual World Research Center."

An aged but vigorous voice came from the other end of the phone.

Lu Li sat up: "Professor Lin, Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year, President Lu."

Professor Lin paused and said somewhat embarrassedly: "I shouldn't be bothering you at this time, but there are a few technical problems I really can't figure out, and I wanted to ask for your advice."

Lu Li smiled: "Professor Lin, you are too polite. Go ahead."

Professor Lin was an old friend of Engineer Zhang, fifty-three years old this year, and was hired by Guanghui Technology with a high salary from his position as a professor at a 985 university.

His main area of expertise was Brain-Computer Interface technology.

In this field domestically, Professor Lin was considered a top expert.

But even so.

Facing the technical data for the Virtual Helmet provided by Lu Li, he still felt like he was reading a heavenly book.

Of course, he treated Lu Li with the attitude of an apprentice.

"President Lu, regarding the brain-controlled command output, our team has encountered a bottleneck."

Professor Lin's voice was anxious: "According to the plan you provided, we need to achieve precise thought capture without implanting electrodes. But the current non-invasive EEG collection technology has too low a signal-to-noise ratio and cannot meet the requirements for real-time control at all."

Lu Li leaned against the headboard, his tone calm: "Professor Lin, are you still using the traditional EEG scheme?"

"Yes."

"Then that's it."

Lu Li said lightly: "The frequency response of EEG is too slow, and it is easily interfered with by electromyography. You need to change your train of thought."

"What train of thought?"

Professor Lin immediately picked up a pen.

"Functional near-infrared spectroscopy technology, combined with deep learning algorithms."

Lu Li's voice was unhurried: "fNIRS can monitor blood oxygen changes in the cerebral cortex in real-time, and the response speed is three to five times faster than EEG. Combined with the neural network model I gave you, the thought recognition accuracy can be increased to over 98%."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds.

Then came Professor Lin's excited voice: "That's right! How did I not think of that! The spatial resolution of fNIRS is also higher than EEG; it can completely achieve precise positioning!"

"However..."

Professor Lin hesitated again: "President Lu, the volume of fNIRS equipment is relatively large. How do we integrate it into the helmet?"

"Miniaturization."

Lu Li said it lightly: "Use MEMS technology to make the light source and detector into chips, and use chip-scale packaging. I have already asked the procurement department to contact several suppliers, and the samples will arrive next week."

"As for algorithm optimization, send the existing training data to my email, and I will revise a version for you later."

Professor Lin was dumbfounded listening to this.

Was this discussing technical problems?

This was clearly one-on-one teaching!

And Lu Li said it so easily, as if these world-class problems were nothing in his eyes.

"President Lu, you... you really are a genius."

Professor Lin exclaimed sincerely.

Lu Li smiled: "Professor Lin, you are too kind. Enjoy your New Year, there's no rush for the technical matters."

"Alright, alright, then I won't bother you anymore."

Hanging up the phone.

Lu Li lay back on the bed.

The technical difficulty of the Virtual Helmet was not in the hardware, but in the software.

Brain-Computer Interface was just the first step.

The real core was those games.

Vision, hearing, touch, and even smell and taste, all had to be perfectly synchronized.

This required an extremely complex neural encoding algorithm.

But these were not problems for Lu Li.

In his previous life on the Blue Star, he had participated in similar projects.

Now, he was just bringing those technologies out ahead of time.

He closed his eyes.

He had already begun to conceive the framework of the virtual world in his mind.

resident evil was a must, what else? world of warcraft?

This classic had to be moved over too.

It's just that the game studio needed to expand.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be enough to write a large-scale world game like world of warcraft.

...

The morning of the third day.

The two aunts and uncles were going back to their own homes.

Before leaving, Wang Peng wanted to go with the youngest aunt, but he was pushed away by her.

"Pengpeng, why don't you stay here for a few more days?"

After all, at Lu Li's place, Wang Peng studied and did winter homework every day, and once he wasn't studying, there were two Doraemon watching him.

This was the most desperate tutoring.

Wang Peng shook his head repeatedly: "No, Mom, I want to go home. Only at home can I study twice as hard."

Lu Li, however, raised the corner of his mouth: "Pengpeng, there's a surprise in a few days. Don't you want to know what it is?"

Wang Peng: "???"

A surprise???

Expectation flashed in Wang Peng's eyes.

If there was a surprise, wouldn't it be a pity if he left?

He gritted his teeth: "I'll stay! I'm staying!"

It's just doing homework!

For his cousin's black technology, he would go for it!

Second Aunt smiled and touched her son's head: "Then you behave yourself here, don't cause any trouble for your cousin."

"Got it, Mom."

Yang Yueru also decided to stay.

Although she wasn't as dramatic as Wang Peng, she was equally curious about the "surprise" Lu Li mentioned.

And...

She secretly glanced at dorami in the living room.

That pink Robot was wiping the table.

Her movements were elegant, like a real girl.

Yang Yueru's eyes lit up.

If she could observe it up close for a few days, maybe she could write an essay about dorami.

Sending off the two aunts and uncles.

Lu Li turned to look at Wang Peng and Yang Yueru.

"Alright, you two go upstairs and do your homework."

Wang Peng: "..."

Wang Peng nodded with a painful and conflicted expression.

Yang Yueru, however, nodded obediently: "Okay, brother!"

Unlike her cousin, her attitude toward studying was very positive; she genuinely liked it from the bottom of her heart.

The two went upstairs.

Wang Peng sat at the desk with a stack of test papers in front of him.

Math, physics, chemistry, English...

He wanted to cry without tears.

This wasn't the New Year; this was clearly a punishment!

Yang Yueru was doing problems at the small table next to him, occasionally picking up her phone to check information.

Her study state was very focused.

Wang Peng looked at her with envy.

They were both relatives, their mothers were sisters, why was the gap so big?

He couldn't understand, were these problems really that interesting?

He sighed and picked up his pen to start doing the problems.

He hadn't been doing it for long.

He remembered something and took out his phone.

Sure enough, the class group chat was already exploding.

[ @Wang Peng Brother Peng! What exactly is the surprise your cousin mentioned? ]

[ Brother Peng, don't play dead! Tell us! ]

[ Brother Peng, I'll push the class beauty's WeChat to you, can you tell me? ]

Wang Peng raised the corner of his mouth; he had just posted about the surprise his cousin mentioned in the class group.

It really caused a sensation.

After all, on New Year's Eve, he had taken pictures of a few Robot cats busy or playing at home.

It had already caused a sensation in the class group.

This feeling...

Awesome!

He typed quickly: [ My brother said, in a few days there will be a very awesome surprise for me to see, do you really want to know? ]

After sending.

He put down his phone triumphantly.

Sure enough.

Within ten seconds, the group exploded.

[ Damn it! Brother Peng, don't keep us hanging, tell us! ]

[ Brother Peng, I beg you! ]

[ Brother Peng, I'll kowtow to you! ]

[ Brother Peng, I'll be your little brother from now on. Whoever bullies you, I'll help you teach them a lesson. ]

Even the usually aloof class monitor popped up: [ Brother Peng, can you reveal a little? ]

Wang Peng felt great inside.

He was just about to continue showing off.

Yang Yueru suddenly looked up, frowning at him: "Pengpeng, don't be too vain. There's nothing to show off about this. We need to be strong ourselves."

"Study hard, get into a good university, and then we can work at cousin's company, isn't that good? It is said that this year-end bonus, they gave out a lot of guanghui 7 ultra!"

Wang Peng: "..."

He put down his phone sheepishly.

"Got it, sister."

He said so with his mouth.

But his fingers were still secretly swiping on the screen.

[ Hehe, secret~ ]

After sending this message.

He continued doing problems with satisfaction.

...

Half an hour later.

Wang Peng really couldn't hold it in anymore.

He put down his pen and crept downstairs.

In the living room.

Lu Li was playing with his phone on the sofa.

Su Qingxue was leaning on his shoulder looking at a tablet.

The scene was heartwarming.

Wang Peng swallowed and cautiously leaned over.

"Cousin..."

Lu Li didn't even lift his head: "Hmm?"

"About that... the surprise you mentioned, what exactly is it?"

Lu Li put down his phone and looked at him with a half-smile: "What? Finished your homework?"

Wang Peng: "..."

"Not... not finished yet."

"Then why don't you go back and write it?"

"But..."

Wang Peng still wanted to say something.

Lu Li snapped his fingers.

Doraemon next to him immediately walked over and took out a test paper from his belly pocket.

"Little friend Wang Peng, this is an extra practice paper prepared for you by Lu Li, please complete it within two hours."

Wang Peng: "!!!"

He widened his eyes.

"Cousin! You can't do this!"

Lu Li said lightly: "Want to know the surprise? Finish your homework first."

Wang Peng wanted to cry without tears.

He took the test paper and went upstairs dejectedly.

Lu Yaoguang's laughter came from behind.

"Hahaha! Pengpeng, you finally experienced my cousin's terror!"

"When he was a child, he didn't give me few test papers as New Year's gifts!"

Wang Peng: "..."

He now seriously suspected.

His cousin did it on purpose!

...

Upstairs.

Wang Peng lay on the table, lifeless.

Yang Yueru was giggling on the side.

"Pengpeng, just stop provoking cousin, and write your homework obediently."

Wang Peng sighed.

Resigned.

He picked up his pen and started writing furiously.

But his heart was still itching.

What exactly was the surprise his cousin mentioned?

Could it be a new mobile phone?

Or a more powerful Robot?

Or...

He suddenly remembered that his cousin and cousin-in-law seemed to be talking about some brain-computer yesterday...

Could it be that?!

Wang Peng's eyes lit up.

If it was a Virtual Helmet...

That would be too awesome!

The more he thought, the more excited he became.

The speed of his pen even increased a bit.

Yang Yueru looked at him suddenly becoming energetic and found it funny.

But she was also equally curious in her heart.

Her cousin's black technology always refreshed her cognition.

She also watched the live broadcast of the guanghui 7 ultra Full-screen display mobile phone launch.

After the Robot matter fermented, she paid even closer attention.

What would it be this time?

She lowered her head and continued doing problems.

But her eyes drifted toward the window from time to time.

Silently looking forward to it.