201 – [Harmonia]
March 26, 2022
Anote:
A little bit about full-dive technology and stream, which I haven’t ntioned for a long ti.
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“What’s wrong?”
“No… I was just reminiscing about the past.”
“Is that so? Alright then.”
I was imrsed in nostalgic mories and Rin-chan asked about it, then she operated the remote control without being particularly curious about what I was thinking.
“Well, 30 monitors should be enough to cram info into my brain in one day. Tomorrow, we will have a field trial with Touka and Suupaa, and the day after tomorrow, we should be ready for the tournant.”
“I’ll leave it up to Rin-chan to decide.”
As we speak, I turn my gaze toward the monitor.
I don’t know how the system works, but each ti Rin-chan operates the buttons on the remote control at high speed, a different image appears on the monitor.
So of it was a bird view often used in FPS and multiplayer ga tournants.
This function usually is used to change the view so the spectator can see the whole picture of the battle and enhance their enjoynt.
It had beco a standard procedure, but then I had one question in my mind.
“Um, Rin-chan.”
“What?”
“I thought WLO was the first ga to allow live streaming?”
“Yes, WLO or [WorldLive-ONLINE], was supposedly the world’s first VR ga that could be live-stread.”
However, if Rin-chan’s words are correct, then live viewpoint of this official stream tournant cannot be explained.
“What is the world’s first live-streamable VR ga?”
… Rin-chan looked surprised at my question.
“I never thought Nana would realize such a thing.”
“Wait, you didn’t make fun of , right?”
“Maybe a bit.”
“Gunnunu……!”
“I’m kidding. Well, it’s okay if you don’t know, but I’ll explain it to you.”
With that, Rin-chan operated the remote control to turned off almost all the monitors, leaving only one screen active.
“WLO is the world’s first full-dive VR ga that allows general players to live-stream the ga.”
“General player… is it ans when soone doesn’t run a special event or sothing similar?”
“Yes. So, in a sense, WLO’s claim is both right and wrong at the sa ti. That’s why Nana’s question is not out of line by any ans.”
*Yosh Yosh* Rin-chan pats on the head, and I can’t help but sulk at her.
After stroking for a while, Rin-chan regained her composure and continued her story.
“Let’s go back a bit. The full-dive technology that sends your consciousness into an online virtual space was originally developed by a company called [Harmonia]. Soon after its developnt, the technology has spread rapidly as it could be used by anyone who paid a patent fee.”
Why did I feel like I had heard that na? [Harmonia]
“I believe it was before I went to junior high school? That’s about the ti when both Nana and I went out as testers. You see, after that, Touka encouraged us to train at a sports facility, right?”
“Ummm… yeah, I rember it vaguely.”
I do rember doing a full dive tester around that ti, just as Rin-chan said.
I was stressed because it was hard for to control my strength, but Rin-chan was so athletically challenged that she couldn’t do it properly, and Touka-chan, who was doing it dexterously, laughed at her to the fullest.
Perhaps frustrated by this, Rin-chan tried to train at a sports facility, but as usual, she was not very good at exercise, so it didn’t give any result.
I was happy to have a date with Rin-chan, though, so it was fun for .
“As a matter of fact, Harmonia had been developing a ga stream function shortly after the full dive into virtual space technology was established. And all of the gas using Harmonia patent innately had that functionality. So, do you know why it wasn’t widely available?”
“Ummm… sothing about needing the latest equipnt, and they couldn’t get their hands on it? “
“My my… that is almost right. What’s wrong, Nana? Did you eat sothing weird? I wonder if it’s going to snow.”
“Rin-chan, you anie!”
“fufufufu.”
I was trying to be serious when I answered! As I puffed my cheeks, she poked and deflated them.
…
“Anyway, Nana was right. It cost a trendous amount of money at the ti to use this stream function. It will cost them a hundred million yen per unit to implent it.”
“100 MIL…!! I an, can’t Rin-chan afford that much?”
Although one would be surprised to see gaming equipnt costing over a hundred million dollars, to be frank, Rin-chan’s wealth should allow her to pay that much for it.
It was approximately the price of one room in this apartnt.
“Yes, for so people, it’s a small price to pay, and I’m one of them. Since there are a lot of rich people in the world. There were people who could have bought equipnt worth hundreds of millions of dollars if they wanted to. But, you know, that equipnt was never available to the public.”
“You an you couldn’t buy it even if you could?”
“Correct. Harmonia only sold the equipnt to companies that developed the gas, and as a result, none of the gas were stread outside of official events. By the way, the recording equipnt is sold to the general public, and this is quite popular.”
I see, so that’s the source of many videos you were trying to watch earlier.
Before coming to this room, Rin-chan said that there would be a video of replay and the official stream.
I guess the replay videos are recorded using so-called [General public recording equipnt].
“I don’t know how the stream works, but wasn’t it used to be like if you could record it, you could distribute it?”
“I can only use an excuse like [that’s just how full-dive ga works]. To be honest, the full-dive technology is quite over-engineered, and Harmonia is the only one who really understands how it works. Its black box contains too much mystery.” {isekai box!}
“I wonder if that’s that wonder of the technology is like.”
“I’ve never t the developer, but I’m pretty sure he’s crazy. Incidentally, he was also involved in the developnt of WLO, and it was Harmonia that created a new system that ordinary players could stream without any specialized equipnt. I’m not sure if it was sothing that was done a long ti ago and they just brought it up now, or if it was a new developnt.”
“Oh, wow.”
“Don’t just reply randomly because you’re tired of it.”
“E-hehehe uii~?”
Perhaps because of my blatant response, Rin-chan pulled my cheek and played with it.
Anyway, at least I knew that WLO was not lying about being the [World’s First]. That one was the only part I wanted to ask about, and I could look up the details on the Internet later.
“I’ve had my eye on Harmonia since it was a small company… they’ve been making a lot of money since back then.”
I was quite surprised at Rin-chan’s unusual talk about making money.
Since she had set up a system to increase her assets when she was a small child, Rin-chan-chan must have done very little work, except for ga projects.
Of course, I cannot deny the possibility that she may have done more work during the six years I was away, but I can almost guarantee that this is not the case.
Rin-chan stopped actively earning money because she was doing it for the sake of the Takajou group, after all.
To put it simply, Toki was afraid of Rin-chan’s outstanding business maneuver, and Rin-chan was aware of it, so she stopped making money to reduce Toki’s worries.
In essence, it was the sa as stopping “touching things” to avoid hurting my parents. Rin stopped earning money because she didn’t want to cause friction between her and Toki.
And bluntly speaking, she had enough assets so she could spend the rest of her life to play to her heart’s content. She had no reason to gain any more money to begin with.
“Isn’t Rin-chan also amasses a ridiculous amount of money?”
“I do make enough money to make my ga winnings look ridiculous; I’d say about 30 percent of my current assets are related to Harmonia.”
“That’s outrageous.”
Thirty percent of Rin-chan’s assets should probably be at least billions or tens of billions of yen.
This also ans that [Harmonia] must have earned more than that. I am not that interested in money, but the amount of money involved was quite mind-blowing.
“Look, you’ll need to do this too.”
“Yes, ma’am. Oh, and you, Rin-chan?”
“Of course. I’ll be watching next to you, so if you have any questions, you can ask. I an, Nana, the current you can see all those monitors, right?”
“I can. But I’d like you to pause the screen when I ask a question.”
“I understand. Let’s go with the half stream and half video for now, shall we?”
“Yes, sir.”
“…
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Nana… there’s sothing you should know… I also use that sotis, you know?”
With mysterious expression, Rin-chan operates the remote.
A click sound ca not from the screen but from the ground, and suddenly a seven-colored glowing cushion {Zabuton} was ejected from a hole in the floor.
I picked it up and held it several tis. It was quite soft for its appearance, and I wondered how it glowed.
“…. what’s this?”
“It’s a gaming cushion.”
“Why cushions?”
“We talked about whether it should be a chair, a sofa, or a cushion, and after an internal HEROES debate, we decided on the cushion.”
“There’s so much abnormal in HEROES, huh?”
“Nana, promise you won’t ever say sothing like that.”
After being scolded so severely, I sit on the seven-colored glowing cushion while having this indescribable feeling.
The cushions were strangely comfortable, but I focused my attention on the screen where a video of the ga was being played.
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Harmonia” provides WLO with stream technology, but another company runs the ga.
Incidentally, full-dive technology is used in gas and simulation, and since quite a few industries rely on it, if [Harmonia] had said [no], no one would have been able to do anything.
By the way, Rinne had made a lot of money thanks to Harmonia, which she invested in on a whim when she was a child. She did well.
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