Old Eggplant was confused.
Had Lu Ban created this instance based on this film festival so he could experience it himself?
Or...
"Don't tell me Lu Ban is at the film festival right now, letting us experience it on-site through these virtual reality helmets?"
Old Eggplant laughed.
But he had seen some game concepts before that involved augmented reality technology. Players would put on smart glasses, and objects in the real world would take on the appearance of things from a game. Players could interact with them and play in reality.
For example, the Pokémon mobile game that had once been popular required players to go to certain real-world locations to catch Pokémon. That could be considered one way to implement the concept.
Lu Ban's Morning Star had achieved virtual reality in one step. Now, was he turning around and working on augmented reality?
Although Old Eggplant was a player, he had his own thoughts about the gaming industry.
To put it plainly, what modern games lacked was not creativity, but the means to realize that creativity. Plenty of wild ideas and gameplay concepts had already been imagined by others; they simply could not be properly implemented with the technology available at the time.
For example, people had once imagined how interesting it would be if games allowed players to move freely, climb, and fly. But the code and computer technology of that era could only support characters moving across flat surfaces. It was only after computer technology developed that open-world games appeared. Even then, those open worlds were not completely free. The NPCs inside them all followed code and could not develop into a real world.
Lu Ban's Morning Star had clearly solved that problem. In the Night Country, Old Eggplant had spoken with the natives, and they all