Deployment

"Teacher Zhao, come take a look. This is the investigator sent by Corona Technology Company. He says he's here to investigate the situation around here."

Zhao Guoming walked over and saw that he was a young man. This young fellow was a staff member from Corona Technology Company, sent here to investigate the relevant circumstances.

Strictly speaking, however, he was not a registered employee of Corona Technology Company, but one of Professor Zhang's people. During this period, Professor Zhang's group and Corona Technology Company had been working in coordinated cooperation.

After arriving, the young man began asking Zhao Guoming questions.

"How many students do you have here?"

"How many impoverished households are there?"

"How far away is the farthest student? How close is the nearest?"

After asking in detail about many aspects of the area, he immediately conducted a systematic investigation. Finding that the situation matched what he had asked about, he nodded.

"No problem. You already meet our requirements, so we'll provide you with the relevant Virtual Reality Helmets free of charge."

Zhao Guoming knew about the Rising Star Program. Their brigade had internet access, so it was easy for them to learn about all kinds of things happening online. He also knew what sort of program the Rising Star Program was.

"Comrade, I'm still not quite sure. Is that Virtual Reality Helmet really that miraculous?"

The young man smiled when he heard Zhao Guoming's words. He had no intention of mocking him. They had investigated many places, and people in nearly every one of them had expressed doubts. After all, Virtual Reality Helmets were still far too remote a concept for rural areas.

"Don't worry. Our product is absolutely genuine. We have a batch with us right now, and we'll give it to you directly. Try it out, and you'll know."

He then returned directly to his vehicle and took several large boxes from the Wuling Hongguang. Each box contained Virtual Reality Helmets. When the boxes were opened, Zhao Guoming could hardly look away.

To him, the things looked too much like works of art. He did not even dare touch them. But the young man said to Zhao Guoming, "These are being provided to you free of charge. You can use them. I'll also teach you how to use them. With these, you'll be able to attend classes remotely. You can even attend class together with people in big cities who are wearing the same Virtual Reality Helmets. You know Zhonghai, right?"

"I do, I do. Of course I know Zhonghai. It's a big city. I went there once before. It can't compare with our place—not even close."

The young man nodded.

"You'll be attending classes together with students from Zhonghai City. When that happens, you might not be the lecturer, so you should prepare yourself mentally."

"No problem. As long as my students can receive a better education, it doesn't matter whether I teach or not. At worst, I'll be a dormitory supervisor."

The young man then took out the helmets and put them on their heads. Once they put them on, everything immediately went black. But soon, lights appeared within, like a star-filled sky. Following the instructions and with the young man's help, Zhao Guoming continued operating the system.

The Virtual Classroom had already been developed and uploaded within a month, which greatly surprised Professor Zhang. Trials had already begun.

The Rising Star Program was being rapidly rolled out. With Professor Zhang's help, testing first began in Zhonghai City and Shu Land in the southwest.

After putting on the Virtual Reality Helmet, Zhao Guoming felt as though he had entered a virtual classroom. The classroom was already filled with people. He soon walked in, and the others turned to glance at him, but paid him no mind. On the podium in the distance stood a lecturer.

Strangely enough, this virtual classroom was enormous. It looked as though it could hold hundreds of people at once. The lecturer was an elderly teacher with white hair, who appeared to be a professor.

Although the professor seemed quite far away in his field of vision, Zhao Guoming could still hear every word clearly. Moreover, whenever the old professor wrote something on the blackboard, a small screen would suddenly appear before his eyes, allowing him to see everything clearly. He found it incredibly miraculous.

He discovered that what the lecturer taught closely matched their elementary school curriculum, and the explanations were exceptionally thorough—far better than his own.

After listening for a while, he followed the steps and removed the Virtual Reality Helmet. Looking at the thin helmet, he weighed it in his hand and found it was not very heavy. The children should be fully able to bear it on their heads.

"With this, you'll be able to take online classes in real time. No matter the circumstances, you'll be able to attend classes. You can choose different courses, and even take classes individually. In other words, we'll upload the courses taught by lecturers to the Virtual Classroom, and you can select and play what those lecturers have taught."

After explaining many more methods for using the Virtual Reality Helmets, as well as the related program operations, the young man left, leaving behind one hundred Virtual Reality Helmets.

Those one hundred Virtual Reality Helmets were worth several hundred thousand, yet they had simply been left here. Even Zhao Guoming could not help sighing. He had thought the Rising Star Program was something false, or that its publicity outweighed its actual implementation. He had not expected it to arrive so quickly.

This was all thanks to Professor Zhang. Without Professor Zhang, achieving this so quickly would have been practically impossible.

At that moment, Zhao Guoming looked at the children in the class, clapped his hands, and said to them, "Everyone, shall we play a game?"

"Okay!"

Zhao Guoming immediately put the Virtual Reality Helmets on them and had them wear them. Some of the children were rather naughty, but under Zhao Ming's authority, none of them dared move around. They soon entered the Virtual Classroom.

Following the method taught by the young man, Zhao Guoming opened the lessons previously taught by the lecturer, and class began.

The children were also full of curiosity, looking around everywhere, but they did not walk about casually. If they moved, the view would move along with them.

Besides that, gloves could also be used to move their field of vision.