Hogwarts: Wizards of Eternity.

Chapter 183 Supporting Privately Made DLC
An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.

Time is the most ubiquitous yet most precious resource in this world.

Airplanes, cars, construction machinery, industry... In a sense, it is a technology that compresses time.

Human beings can do more in less time, and the world has ushered in an era of great development. In more than a hundred years, as if the accelerator key was pressed, more things have been produced than in the past thousands of years combined.

The greatest significance of Roger's virtual reality in the eyes of elite wizards is that it makes the "time" of wizard civilization several times that of Muggle civilization!
It can even be said that every slight increase in the rate of mental acceleration represents an increase in the wizards' crushing power over Muggles.

So when the press conference entered the question-and-answer session, almost all the questioners in the entire venue asked questions around this question.

But Roger didn't say much about this issue. After all, it is not Roger's main research technology at present.

Roger understood their thoughts, but in his opinion, the transition of life levels was more powerful and meaningful than the acceleration of thinking.

The questioner was obviously not satisfied with Roger's answer of "stay tuned" and wanted to dig out more inside information.

But since Roger refused to give in, they had no other choice.

"You said that virtual reality clients will be available in every household in the UK within half a year. So after you have achieved domestic popularity, do you have plans to spread virtual reality to other countries?"

Seeing that no other inside information could be obtained from Roger, the next person who was called to ask questions changed direction.

The person who asked the question was a middle-aged wizard. He was a reporter, but not a reporter from the British wizarding media.

He is from Germany.

Today, the magical communities of Britain and Germany have begun to cooperate closely, and many people in Germany are paying attention to some important matters of British wizards.

Roger's case, in particular, was the focus of attention of a group of political forces led by German Minister of Magic Vogel.

It's not just the Hogwarts board of directors who know the value of this technology. There are many smart people in the world, and Germany also wants to use the technology.

“Of course, our ultimate goal is to popularize virtual reality throughout the world.” Roger gave an affirmative answer.

"Virtual reality will become an integral part of human beings in the future. It will be as ubiquitous as the electronic signals on the Internet that Muggles are using now."

"I think this extremely convenient thing should not be limited to one country or one place," Roger added.

Not to mention things related to the second magic, when virtual reality is fully rolled out, it will basically be able to completely replace various signal receiving electronic devices such as televisions, computers, and mobile phones.

Virtual reality can do all the functions of the Internet and can do it better.

...No, some individual things cannot be replaced.

For example, there are certain contents that minors cannot access. Although virtual reality can do this, humans definitely have various privacy needs.

Roger's networking function is essentially an interference of the upper virtual world on the lower virtual world.

If you can interfere, you can naturally retrieve some 'historical records'.

Obviously not everyone can accept that what they do is seen clearly under the nose of another person.

The teachers and students inside Hogwarts don't care because the person currently in charge of the network is Roger, and Roger is a prophet. After a year of getting along with each other, they already have a general understanding of what a prophet can do.

So they didn't have any other ideas. Roger's current power is not enough to connect to the world. There will definitely be a period of time in the future when each country in the world will build its own "local area network". At that time, there will probably be another set of twists and turns.

Of course, although these problems are foreseeable, Roger did not mention them much, because no one can predict what will happen in the future. Maybe after a while, his technology will have new breakthroughs and be able to solve this problem.

This is also a common problem faced by many prophets. Even if they can see what may happen in the distant future, they will not say too much, because for prophets, the future is not absolutely predetermined.

If you say too much before something happens, it might not be a good thing.

“You said before that you would sell the VR client at a lower price. So will you charge extra for the VR experience?”

Roger saw an acquaintance in the crowd, Luna's father, the editor-in-chief of The Quibbler.

After Roger woke him up, Xenophilius Lovegood asked a more realistic question.

"My personal opinion on this issue is that charging is allowed, but random charging is prohibited." Roger was not averse to this question.

This is indeed a key issue.

"As everyone knows, when I created the virtual world, it was just an 'empty shell'. To perfect it bit by bit, to make it closer to reality, or more mysterious, it definitely requires the efforts of many people."

"My personal Subspace Magic Technology Company is willing to provide some basic services free of charge."

"But for some advanced customization needs, not only our company can carry out research and development, but also some ordinary wizards can show their magical powers. If someone develops something interesting and wants to charge for it, I think banning it will break a certain positive cycle."

Roger answered Xenophilius' question very seriously.

What he meant was very simple, that is, Roger built this platform for free.

However, Roger encourages the public to make their own DLC and various software applications in order to make a profit.

But if someone wants to monopolize technology and impose mandatory high prices, Roger will have to step in to manage it.

The popularization of the second magic will be carried out along with the popularization of virtual reality, but it will obviously take a long time for wizards to obtain and fully control this power.

During this window period when the wizard community is turning to high-level martial arts civilization, Roger will do his best to maintain the healthy development of the virtual reality industry.

After answering Xenophilius Lovegood's question, Roger casually pointed at the blonde woman sitting not far from him.

Rita Skeeter, special reporter for the Daily Prophet.

As it was a well-known local newspaper, Roger certainly couldn't possibly not give her a chance to speak.

Rita Skeeter stood up. She remembered the instructions given by the boss and did not dare to explode in such an occasion.

She asked an equally critical and serious question: "Director Roger, you said you want to promote virtual reality technology to foreign countries and even the whole world. Have you considered whether other countries are willing to accept it?"

“If they accept it, is there a possibility that they will establish laws to conduct some not-so-good operations?”

“What are you going to do if this happens?”

(End of this chapter)