Chapter 1267: Daily Life

"Hello everyone, I'm Yu Dong."

In the phone screen, the first-person camera swayed, and the young man's voice followed.

"Does everyone see anything different? Yes, I'm not holding a blind cane today. I don't know if everyone remembers, but just over four months ago, I released the test videos for the physical examination and optic nerve connection technology. Subsequent tests were also released, and friends who have been following me can see them."

"After such a long effort by the experts at Long Teng, and after so many tests, we have finally overcome one difficulty after another and developed a prototype for road testing."

As he spoke, the camera switched to a third-person perspective, and Yu Dong, wearing something that looked like VR glasses, appeared in front of the camera.

"The first-generation optic nerve connection glasses developed by the Long Teng Biological Medical Research Project Team, 'Dragon Eye.' Because it's a test engineering machine, it's still relatively simple, with an external 20,000 mAh power bank for stable power supply, so don't mind the appearance."

"I don't understand the working principle, so let me tell you about the specific parameters of Dragon Eye. It is composed of a camera module, a conversion module, and a connection transmission module. Before installation, a small surgery is required. Everyone look here, there is a shallow small incision, which is part of the connection module; it needs to be installed inside the human body..."

"The camera module uses a 13mm wide-angle lens module launched by Long Teng Imaging, which is composed of 26mm and 39mm through cropping. A rigid lens cannot replace the human eye, so in terms of field of view, there is still a big gap with the human eye..."

"The 13mm field of view has too much information, the conversion and connection transmission load is heavy, and it's easy to cause fainting. And under this field of view, even without load, people will be dizzy, so there is still a certain degree of danger..."

After Yu Dong's fairly detailed introduction, he smiled and said, "Here, I want to thank everyone. Since the release of the physical examination and subsequent test videos, my videos have become popular, and since then, more new friends have supported and encouraged me. It is also because of your existence that I can contribute to the group by promoting the product, so the group selected me as one of the few first batch of testers."

"I will definitely do my best to experience and test, discover more problems, and perfect the product, so that more blind friends can see the light sooner."

"Everyone can see that today's video is very carefully produced. Then, please follow my perspective to first meet the R&D team accompanying me for the field test, the group's director team for filming and editing, and the medical rescue team providing protection to avoid accidents."

As the words fell, the screen on the phone split: one was Yu Dong's perspective, and the other was a third-person perspective filmed by someone else.

Yu Dong began to point to the group of people around him, introducing them. Among them were four researchers from the laboratory, who were in a large commercial vehicle, with computers in front of them tracking and monitoring. There were six people in the photography team, including lighting, shading, sound recording, filming, and logistics. Another was a modified RV, with a pile of first-aid equipment inside, and four doctors monitoring the status.

In short, it was professional and powerful.

Yu Dong also shared a piece of good news: when he was testing, it counted as field work. His customer service salary was paid, and there was a double subsidy for field work. At the same time, the group helped him film short videos, and the income was all his own.

What was reflected was Long Teng's generous treatment and humanization.

The subsequent footage was Yu Dong starting to walk and experience on the street, talking about his personal feelings, as well as talking about some shortcomings, etc.

Of course, there were shortcomings. The most direct shortcoming was that people couldn't use it for a long time. The longest time was only two and a half hours continuously, after which they had to rest for an hour before continuing to use it.

Under such working hours, the heating and power consumption problems of the machine itself were not problems. After all, it would just start to heat up slightly, and then it would start the countdown to automatically shut down. If you want to turn it on, you must wait for an hour, otherwise it won't turn on, forced anti-addiction. And being smart, wanting to buy several machines by yourself, that won't work either.

Regarding this, Wei Lan had doubts.

Wang Yan threw the phone aside and explained: "Control it at the sales end. Every user must bring a hospital diagnosis for on-site registration, and it must be adjusted for different people. It's not something everyone can use. At the same time, we will add a verification system to the machine, which will be recorded during on-site debugging, controlling it at the source."

"I approved the funding for the press conference a few days ago, is this it?"

"It's almost there, it will be released at the end of the month, and it will be on sale next month. The development speed is still very fast. I asked the project team to report the bonus, remember to approve it later."

"How many users do you expect?"

"According to the data provided by the medical system, there are at least one million people who can apply our product."

"Is the price set?"

Wang Yan nodded with a smile: "The blind have poor economic conditions, so it can't be sold at a very high price. This is also a welfare cause of ours. But the cost is already very high, so the country has given some subsidies for poor families. The subsidies are in two aspects: one is tax exemption for our Dragon Eye, and the other is a special subsidy fund allocated by the finance department, with a subsidy of 5,000 per unit. The final price for poor users is 59,000. In addition, the country provides low-interest loans for ten years, and you can take it away with a down payment of 10,000."

"Then how much can we earn?"

"The gross profit per unit is about 7,000, which is basically the money from subsidies and tax reductions."

"Is this still welfare?"

"It's already not bad. After all, we can't not make money. We still need to carry out subsequent R&D upgrades, constantly extend the usage time, and reduce the product volume. The current volume is too large and inconvenient."

Wei Lan nodded and changed the subject: "So we mainly earn money from foreigners, right?"

"Of course. The price for foreigners is 50,000 USD. And there are just as many blind people among the foreign devils, so we earn more."

"I'm afraid there will be protests again." Wei Lan couldn't help but shake her head and smile.

Wang Yan didn't care about any protests or opposition. Anyway, it was useless, and he didn't care about international influence. He was sanctioned and blockaded by the whole industry, so what was the use of caring? That's the price, buy it if you want, don't buy it if you don't.

"The factory has been built. I plan to go see it. Are you going?"

"Let's go, anyway, there's nothing to do." Wei Lan nodded.

A new nanny came to the house. This was arranged by the government to take care of the children when they went to the construction site before. She took good care of them. Plus the children are older now, they have started practicing crawling, and they are all healthy and easy to take care of.

So the nanny stayed. Wang Yan rented a house in a building, and she would come up to help take care of the children when needed.

Most of the time, Wang Yan and Wei Lan watched the children play. The purpose of Wang Yan bringing up the children himself was actually to cultivate the next generation, whether in terms of physical fitness or personal ideology, infiltrating and cultivating from childhood, which is a long-term process.

In this regard, he has quite rich experience...

The two packed up, called the nanny up, notified the security personnel, and took a car to the factory in the suburbs of Lin'an City.

After some thinking, the factory was finally built in Lin'an. Because life here is relatively more convenient and the supporting facilities are more sufficient. Unlike the headquarters in Suizhong, which has to wait a long time to be built.

And from another perspective, most of the workers in this factory are blind. After all, it is to serve the blind, so it is obviously better to use blind people to work.

They have been trained and put on Dragon Eye glasses, and they are fully capable of doing the work. The working hours are quite reasonable: work for two and a half hours, rest for two hours in the middle, work for seven and a half hours, and a total of nine and a half hours a day.

Of course, there must be overtime. It is foreseeable that the sales situation will be very hot.

Actually, this also extends to another problem, which is also a very important problem, and that is the blind labor force.

In the past, because the blind couldn't see, their work was very limited. Some did blind massage, and some even had high incomes. Some did skilled manual work, and some powerful people became lawyers, TCM doctors, repairmen, translators, and even software developers, etc.

But compared to the millions of blind people, this has always been a small part. Most could only do some simple work, or even stay at home in despair, and the money they earned was also meager.

The blind can't see, but they don't lack hands and feet, and they don't lack brains. Now that they can see, to a certain extent, they have become sound people and have sound so-called low-end labor.

This is a labor force of millions released with the sales of Dragon Eye. Tens of thousands is a municipal problem, hundreds of thousands is a provincial problem, and millions is a national problem.

For the country, this is actually a challenge. After all, the current environment is turbulent, and there will be many related problems...

However, that is the country's worry, but it can't be blamed on Wang Yan for causing trouble. Technology must be advanced, and problems must be solved.

And so far, he himself has provided job positions, adding up to hundreds of thousands including upstream and downstream. Including the tens of thousands of employees under Long Teng's various companies, and increasing every day. Various product self-production, OEM factories, factories providing raw materials, all the way down, he can bring hundreds of thousands of people downstream to eat together.

This is not easy in the current environment. Those who mix with the Long Teng Group have all eaten meat.

This is not easy in the current environment, which isn't very good. Those who mix with the Long Teng Group have all managed to eat meat.

Of course, this is mainly because Long Teng is opening up the market; even if it's not the smart home market they are opening up, it's still a cake made bigger by Long Teng, because Long Teng's "looks like true intelligence" has driven other smart home businesses.

Nowadays, even players like Huawei and Xiaomi have joined Long Teng's smart ecosystem. Of course, they still retain their own development paths; they just opened up protocols for Long Teng Intelligence and joined the Long Teng smart solution.

Generally speaking, Long Teng Intelligence is invincible under heaven...

"Wang Zong, President Wei."

Upon arriving at the factory, the person in charge of the factory came out to welcome them.

Wang Yan nodded with a smile: "Has production already started?"

"We are currently conducting trial production. The factory started construction last year, but the plan only came out recently, so we still need to run it in. Moreover, the product hasn't been finalized yet, so we can only produce the confirmed neural interface modules. This factory of ours mainly produces just this; most other modules are produced by OEMs."

Wang Yan didn't know the details either; he only knew the progress of the research side, and he didn't care much about the production side. After all, most of what they do are monopoly products, and at the same time, they have strict production operation systems, quality monitoring systems, as well as internal group inspection systems, supervision and reporting systems, etc. A series of systems guaranteed production safety and production quality to the greatest extent.

Wei Lan said: "Factory Manager Li, take us for a walk and introduce things to us."

The factory manager nodded in response and immediately led everyone to walk around the factory floor, introducing things as they went.

Yu Dong's video was filmed as early as last month. Releasing it now is for publicity, promotion, and building momentum. It's not just Yu Dong; other self-media bloggers are the same. Relatively speaking, in terms of actual dissemination influence, Yu Dong isn't qualified enough; this is the group protecting him, as decided by Wang Yan personally. Yu Dong's life is truly bitter.

And in fact, the first batch of products has already been produced. Although not finalized, it belongs to a large-scale test. Therefore, in the factory, it is easy to see people wearing Dragon Eye glasses, as well as a pile of medical support vehicles parked in an open area.

There are three main operation items here. One is the production of neural interface modules. This production requirement is very high; sterile and dust-free are the basics.

Because installing the machine requires a minimally invasive surgery in the early stage, which needs to be placed inside the body. However, the surgery is very simple, the surgical cost is not high, and medical insurance also reimburses a certain amount. It can be solved for less than two thousand yuan, and it can be upgraded and replaced in the future.

In addition to the internal implant, there is a corresponding transmission unit installed on the external glasses. No factory can OEM this either; they have their own specially developed production line.

The second item is the conversion module, where half of the parts need to be produced by themselves, and the other half can be OEMed.

The third is the assembly of the complete machine. This is assembly line work; some parts are replaced by machines, and some delicate parts are installed manually by workers. This is also the link that uses the most people.

The factory buildings are also unfolded around these projects, divided into multiple workshops and areas. As for the requirements for leadership offices, etc., they didn't build high-rise buildings either; they are still steel-structured mining spaces, with internal partitioning, decoration, etc. It is full of a thick industrial style.

The canteen and dormitory are even more so, a continuous stretch of steel-structured factory buildings. It is mainly because this construction is faster and more convenient. Moreover, they got a lot of land here, and the location is actually not that good; otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to get such a large plot of land. Of course, it is definitely better than Suizhong, whether it is transportation or surrounding living facilities, etc.

It is impossible for employees to stay in the factory area. Besides, they are all people who can see for the first time. They have a childlike curiosity about this world, and they actually yearn for the outside world more.

Dealing with the next four or five years is enough. When the construction of the main district is completed, they will definitely move there. Wang Yan also wants to develop the construction of the main district; industrial clusters are of course the top priority...

After inspecting the factory situation like this, Wang Yan emphasized production safety, effectively ensuring employee welfare and benefits, and strictly standardizing work arrangements. Afterward, he had a meal outside with Wei Lan, and only then did he return home to look after the children and handle some work affairs.

"Wang Zong, I have submitted the project plan for 'Long Teng Future Home'. Please take a look."

The person in charge of smart homes called, indicating that they wanted to cut the line.

Wang Yan's work background is very busy. Projects from hundreds of laboratories, as well as sales-related issues of various companies, are all here with him. Relevant personnel and finance also need to be copied to him. The number of emails involving various big and small problems every day is at least one thousand.

Generally speaking, his replies do not exceed three days. Therefore, the unprocessed emails piled up in his mailbox basically maintain around three thousand...

He is the brain of the entire company.

It is also thanks to his high work efficiency; otherwise, he would really be exhausted to death.

Of course, this is mainly because he interfered too much in R&D issues. Daily affairs are actually not many; after all, he has always been bold in delegating power. It's just that he is helpless about the technologies he currently holds that have not been fully implemented, so he always has to guide them from time to time.

It is also because of this that many anxious people will call him, requesting to handle problems in advance.

So Wang Yan found the email for the so-called 'Long Teng Future Home' project.

There is nothing special; it's just a smart home model room. Currently, Long Teng only has four smart home experience stores: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Lin'an, where the headquarters is currently located.

The experience store covers a large area, with one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom model rooms, respectively furnished with all low-end, all mid-range, and all high-end proprietary smart products. This is already three hundred square meters.

At the same time, there is a sample display area, from small screws to large televisions, etc., basically all representative products have been selected. There are also negotiation areas, rest areas, and after-sales service areas. This requires another thousand-plus square meters.

Such a storefront, just like a mobile phone store, must be opened near a prosperous business district, or even in a shopping mall. Therefore, the construction cost of a store is very high.

And this plan is to first open in all first- and second-tier cities, with the goal of opening in all four municipalities directly under the central government, as well as all 293 prefecture-level cities. Whether to open in the remaining three hundred-plus county-level cities will be discussed then.

This involves a lot of funds, as well as the overall plan for the development of the smart home business department, which exceeds the authority of the person in charge, so Wang Yan needs to approve it. Let him see if it is necessary.

If it is necessary, then smart homes will no longer pay profits to the group, but will be retained for comprehensive construction.

Wang Yan had considered this problem before, but it hadn't developed at that time. Later, when he got busy, he had no time to take care of it. Now that the person in charge has brought it up and the conditions are ripe, of course, there is no need to deny it.

So he replied with approval and copied Wei Lan, as well as the group's finance department, and the process began...

So the next day, the smart home department issued an announcement that it would open Long Teng Future Home in all cities above the second tier, and sent out a site selection team to start designing decoration plans and coordinating decoration materials and construction teams.

At the end of the month, the Dragon Eye project, which had been warmed up for nearly a month, finally held a press conference under the expectation of the masses.

They launched the first generation of Dragon Eye glasses, demonstrated excellent functions, stated the shortcomings, and at the same time announced the standards for suitable users, specific to the details of various eye diseases, announced the domestic and foreign prices, and announced the hospital units across the country that can perform pre-surgery.

And announced the news of AR and VR glasses.

Before the shock that Dragon Eye brought to the whole world could dissipate, the "Living Father" arrived on time, never disappointing anyone.

"Song Yunping from 'Like a Flowing River': Living."