Omni-connected Immersive AR Display

"Boss, the AR equipment and computer parts you wanted have all arrived."

It was almost noon when Xia Keke pushed a pallet jack and delivered the equipment and parts Chen Yi wanted to the second floor.

"Put them aside. I'll unbox them later."

Chen Yi was holding his phone, controlling Lu Bu as he chased Diao Chan. Without even turning his head, he replied.

Xia Keke was not surprised by Chen Yi's reaction.

Carrying a packed lunch, she walked over to Chen Yi, leaned in, and watched his controls.

"Boss, all your teammates are dead."

After watching for a while, she saw Chen Yi leap in with his ultimate and charge straight at three people.

With a few swings of his halberd, he killed the enemy mage and support, leaving their jungler badly injured.

But his own three backliners were also caught by Lian Po's ultimate-flash combo, becoming nothing more than cash machines for the enemy Sun Shangxiang.

"Fuck! These trash teammates don't deserve to win.

I chased down three people by myself, and they still lost a four-versus-two!"

Chen Yi angrily tossed his phone onto the table. His mentality had completely collapsed.

"Boss, I packed you lunch. Dry pot shrimp, plus a bottle of Coke."

Seeing Chen Yi's shattered mood, Xia Keke promptly lifted the bag in her hand, using the fragrance of the dry pot to chase away his frustration.

"Thanks. Have you and Xiaoyu eaten yet?"

Chen Yi took the bag, pulled out the Coke, and took a big gulp. His mood immediately improved.

"We did. We went out together and had dry pot chicken."

Chen Yi opened the food container and picked up a shrimp for a taste. "This dry pot is pretty good. Which restaurant packed it?"

"A newly opened place at Zhengda Plaza, not far from here."

Chen Yi nodded, ate several more shrimp in a row, then casually asked, "What do you and Xiaoyu think about Manager He, the new person at the company these past few days?"

"She's pretty great. She's only been here two days, but I heard she already negotiated with a struggling machinery manufacturer and is preparing to acquire it and merge it into Yifei's manufacturing division, increasing Yifei's drone model production capacity.

Yifei's corporate restructuring should also be completed in the next couple of days.

The new headquarters has already been finalized. The construction and renovation crew entered today, and we'll be able to relocate soon.

Xiaoyu and I, the two old office employees, have also received some consideration.

Besides the usual summer heat allowance, the factory uncles are getting extra herbal tea and watermelon every day.

At the same time, the company has issued new recruitment notices and a salary increase plan, saying it wants to hire more skilled workers, raise base salaries, and reduce overtime.

But the latter parts don't really seem like the style of the new Manager He. They feel more like your ideas, Boss."

Xia Keke laid out everything she knew one by one.

Toward the end, there was only one thing left unsaid in her heart.

The new Manager He was good in every way, decisive and efficient.

There was just one problem.

She did not really fit Yifei's cultural values.

Or rather, she clashed with Chen Yi's slacking-off personality.

Chen Yi might have been busy as hell these past few days, pulling all-nighters and livestreaming test flights.

But after working at Yifei for several years, Xia Keke and Qin Xiaoyu both understood his personality.

The only reason he could be busy as hell was because these past few days were filled with things he liked and found interesting.

If it were something else he did not like or care about—

Heh.

Then you would learn what it meant to have a hands-off boss, and what it meant to have a boss who took the lead in slacking off.

Whenever Chen Yi threw aside his work and ran up to the second floor to tinker with things he liked, Xia Keke could not help but sigh to herself.

The fact that Yifei had made it this far was truly a miracle.

She and Qin Xiaoyu had to worry about the company's production and operations while also adapting to Chen Yi's irregular bouts of slacking off. That was seriously impressive too.

If Chen Yi had not paid them so much—

She would have quit long ago.

On the other hand, Xiaoyu had always believed that Chen Yi was the core of Yifei's operations and the focus of its development.

She kept saying strategy was more important than tactics.

They were merely carrying out their work under Chen Yi's guidance.

She was such a foolish little fish.

"Yifei is planning to restructure. The current studio and laboratory will be separated and exist independently."

Chen Yi looked up and asked, "Do you and Xiaoyu want to stay here, or move to the headquarters of the newly established company?"

"Move to the new company headquarters?"

Xia Keke froze for a moment, then hurriedly shook her head. "No, no, no. Xiaoyu and I choose to stay here!"

"Boss, alive, I'm your person; dead, I'm your ghost. You can't drive me away!"

What a joke.

This newly arrived Manager He Yu was obviously the real deal—a decisive, strong career woman.

If she really went over there and got thrown into KPI evaluations—

How was she supposed to slack off?

How was she supposed to be lazy?

She often complained about Chen Yi slacking off.

But if even the boss did not slack off, how could the employees possibly have a chance to slack off?

A supervisor or boss who took work too seriously and voluntarily worked 996 was not a good supervisor or a good boss.

"Since you don't want to go, I'll talk to Manager He about it."

Chen Yi thought about it.

The laboratory would become independent.

Although he handled all the technical research and development issues himself, he still needed people to take care of daily affairs.

It was just right for Qin Xiaoyu and Xia Keke to stay.

"Notify Manager He. Once Yifei's restructuring is complete, acquire several laboratories in materials engineering, chips, and biomaterials."

After settling Xia Keke and Qin Xiaoyu's arrangements, Chen Yi gave Xia Keke her first task.

It was fine for him to reveal drone-related technology for now. Bringing out a few more pieces of black technology would not be a problem either.

But if he kept unveiling one technology after another, with each one more impressive than the last, then the problem would become serious.

If he wanted to avoid being dissected, or provoking the people across the ocean into launching crazed, no-expense-spared assassination attempts—

It would be best to set up several public-facing laboratories to divert attention and conceal the source of the technology.

As for how to conceal it, that was simple.

Technological research tested one's foundation of knowledge, but it also tested inspiration and luck.

Most of the time, inspiration and luck were the real keys. Ten thousand carefully calculated experiments might not compare to a single accidental experimental mistake.

With the Brainwave Virtual Consciousness Machine, he could secretly guide them and offer a few pointers.

The laboratory researchers' luck and inspiration could erupt at any moment.

After receiving her task, Xia Keke went downstairs.

Chen Yi finished his lunch.

He unpacked the AR equipment and computer parts one by one, preparing to build an external display and control device.

The current Brainwave Virtual Consciousness Machine was good in every way except for the helmet design.

New energy vehicle technology and the market had fully exploded.

The Volkswagen Passat had been redesigned, and the Japanese car market had shrunk as well.

You did not need to wear a helmet to drive. Going out with one on was simply inconvenient and out of place.

The process was the same.

He removed the AR device's battery and connected several extra-large-capacity batteries externally.

He assembled the processor, motherboard, graphics card, and other parts into a top-tier computer, then connected it to the AR device.

Then, using scripts, he configured the computer as the AR device's computing core.

And with that, an AR device with absurd battery life and absurd computing power was complete.

[Item: Weak Immersive External Display]

[Attributes: Energy x59.9, Strength x4.2, Computing Power x59.9, Information Processing x9.7, Communication Interconnection x6.7, Operational Interconnection x3.2, Image Display x7.8, Appearance x1.2, Portability x0.3]

After connecting the computer tower and batteries externally, the AR device's appearance and portability had dropped straight to the bottom.

Chen Yi looked over the AR display's attributes.

After studying them for a while, he roughly came up with an adjustment plan.

"Since AR is an external display and control device, the computing and Information Processing can both be handled by the host machine.

"The priorities should be Communication Interconnection, portability, Operational Interconnection, and image display.

"As for strength and appearance, being above standard is enough. Energy can be recharged, and a battery life of around ten days should be fine."

Different items had different functions, so the focus of their attribute adjustments was also different.

Compared to the Brainwave Virtual Consciousness Machine, which needed to pursue extreme performance—

As an external display device, AR did not need to pursue extreme performance. Its attribute priorities were clearly different as well.

Whoosh!

Seven-colored light blossomed, enveloping the entire tabletop.

When the light faded—

A technologically elegant wristwatch and a pair of slim metal glasses appeared before Chen Yi.

[Item: Omni-connected Immersive AR Display]

[Attributes: Energy x10.9, Strength x7.2, Computing Power x7.9, Information Processing x9.7, Communication Interconnection x30.7, Operational Interconnection x25.2, Display x30.8, Appearance x10.2, Portability x20.3]

[Multiple attributes detected to have surpassed their initial values. Read information? Yes/No.]

[Note: This is a powerful immersive control display.

With the strongest Communication Interconnection on the planet, as long as you have permission, it can easily connect to anything from satellites in space to radio receivers on the ground.

With communication bandwidths as high as 100 TB/s, as long as the host device can keep up, it can definitely keep up.

Its intelligent Operational Interconnection supports everything from mainstream world languages to inland dialects. Training it will give you no trouble.

Its eco-friendly energy system provides eighty hours of use after one hour of charging, supports solar charging mode, and easily frees you from battery anxiety.

Its more eco-friendly display method supports retinal projection, sparing you the trouble of eye strain.

Its beyond-imagination portability lets it transform from a monocle to black-rimmed glasses, from sunglasses to gold-rimmed glasses. Any color, any style—it can handle them all.]