The Samsung staff mbers had underestimated people’s enthusiasm for virtual reality technology.
After more than 50,000 helts were sold out at the live venue, the price of a resold HV-1 helt exceeded 50,000 yuan, which was more than a four tis increase over the original 12,000 yuan price.
The people that sold their helts early began to feel regretful. On the other hand, sellers were constantly canceling their previous sales and listing the item at a higher price.
The reselling market was going through a volatile ti.
Not a lot of trades were going through, but the bid and offer prices of the helts were jumping up every minute. The resellers had the complete upper hand.
Normally at a product launch like this, there would be resellers standing around the venue, asking the empty-handed people if they wanted to buy the item that the reseller just bought.
However, the situation here was the exact opposite. Even though there were resellers around the venue, they weren’t trying to talk with the custors that were empty-handed; instead, they were harassing the custors that had already gotten their hands on a helt.
Whenever they saw soone like that, they would rush up to them and ask relentlessly—
“Hey, bro? You selling? I’m bidding 24,000 yuan! That’s double the original price! One ti offer!”
“Screw off! I’m bidding 30,000! Sell it to !”
Of course, in addition to resellers, there were also people that just wanted to buy the helts for themselves.
But then again, who wouldn’t want to experience VR?
Therefore, regardless of what price they were offered, most people gave a short and concise answer.
“F*ck off!”
On the other hand, the helt had reached the top of the trending page. Many people who were lucky enough to grab a helt already began posting their experience online. They were t with jealousy and envy.
For example, the well-known director Wang Lihui posted a long blog post on his Weibo imdiately after the press conference, describing his experience of using the fully imrsive HV-1 VR technology.
[First of all, this is not an ad. It was so difficult for to get a ticket for the press conference. Huawei and Star Sky Technology don’t need to advertise their product.
[So, as the world’s first publicly sold neural interface virtual reality device, the HV-1 equipped with the Phantom system has taken virtual reality to the next level. There are no other products on the market that even co close. What I have to do now is wait for Xiaomi to release their helts, then make a comparison between the two devices.
[In terms of price, 12,000 yuan is definitely not cheap. In fact, it is the price of mid to high-end laptops, but it’s totally worth spending the money to buy an entirely new universe. In fact, I have noticed that so people in the reselling market are selling it at 200,000. It seems like the market recognizes its value.
[Of course, I’m not recomnding my fans to buy a helt on the reseller market. After all, Huawei will soon release a new batch of helts next month. When the supply ets the demand, everyone will get an opportunity to live in a beautiful simulated world.
[So, in terms of my thoughts, I can’t even use words to describe this feeling. This is sothing entirely new and unique; it goes beyond my expectation of the Internet and the virtual world! I’m sure most of you have watched Ready Player One, and I can guarantee this experience is the sa as the movie! Even if you play all day, your eyes will never get tired; the images are directly sent to your optic nerve!
[Of course, as a filmmaker, virtual reality technology has made think about the future of the film industry. Maybe it won’t be long before we begin watching movies in a virtual reality world, allowing us to get a totally imrsive experience of the characters...]
This blogpost on Weibo was shared all across the internet.
There were only a million helts available on the market. Not to ntion the online sales wouldn’t begin until night ti. However, the number of people around the world looking forward to this helt had exceeded tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.
People had fantasized about virtual reality technology for a long ti.
For a long ti, science fiction movies had depicted a future where people were completely imrsed in VR technology. Maybe in the future, reality would no longer be a boundary for people’s imagination and experience. Unlimited information flow would broaden people’s minds to a whole new world.
Now that this technology finally went from the laboratory into the industry, almost everyone wanted to know what this so-called heaven experience felt like.
According to statistics from major search websites, keywords such as virtual reality, Phantom system, HV-1, etc had begun trending.
People were more than enthusiastic about this technology.
Everyone was frantically finding information about this new technology, hoping to get an understanding before they enter a new era...
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The original product launch was scheduled to end at 5 pm.
People didn’t expect it to end at 3 pm.
Because the reselling price continued to increase, people from neighboring cities even ca here by high-speed rail. As a result, more and more people were at the venue, they had to end the conference to avoid any accidents.
Also, the 100,000 helts were all sold out at three o’clock.
This was rather unfortunate for the people that ca all the way here...
Even Huawei didn’t expect the live sales to go so well.
Even though they expected the world’s first neural interface virtual reality helt to be completely sold out, and they even cooperated with the local police, they didn’t expect it to be this crazy...
The press conference ended.
Ten o’clock at night.
The Huawei headquarters was still brightly lit.
The people from the sales departnt were sitting in front of their computers, staring ticulously at their screens, scared of making a single mistake.
In two hours, 900,000 helts were going to be listed on the official website.
What baffled people was that, two hours before the beginning of the sales, they already started to receive a huge amount of website traffic.
it was obvious that people were constantly refreshing the page, as if they didn’t want to miss the sale.
After what happened during the conference, the project director responsible for the HV-1 helt felt a million pounds of pressure on his shoulders. Even though he was drinking one cup of tea after another, he wasn’t able to calm his nerves down.
Ti passed by minute by minute; soon, it was almost midnight.
An employee sitting in front of his computer screen spoke excitedly.
“Hey, boss, it’s almost ti!”
The project director put down his cup of tea; he tried to calm down as he spoke in a serious tone.
“Let’s begin the sale!”
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