In the more than 90 years of history of the World Cup, this top football feast has left countless "unsettled" moments for thousands of fans, and "misjudgment" has become the key to casting these regrets. For example, in 1986 and 2010, the "Hand of God" and "goal-line unsolved cases" encountered by the England team are still controversial topics in the fan circle.
The birth of the above-mentioned misjudgment has undoubtedly played a negative role in the development of the fairness of football competition, adding a lot of uncertainty to the pure sport of football. Now, with the penetration of cutting-edge technology into the field of sports competition, smart devices represented by VAR (replay technology) have begun to help referees maintain absolute fairness on the green field.
In fact, far beyond football, the push of technology for competitive sports is spreading faster than people can imagine, from traditional sports to new sports events. Esports is the best example of the interweaving of technology and sportsmanship.
From the birth of professional events, to becoming an official competition of the Asian Games, to the establishment of the International Olympic Committee E-sports Committee, this video game-based sport can step onto the stage of "competition", and even continue to promote the development of industrialization.
The rise of e-sports has not only become a representative of the integrated development of technology and the game industry, but also made people re-realize the charm of this new way of entertainment.
Where does the fairness of esports come from?
In 1986, the ABC channel in the United States showed viewers a picture of two children competing to play Nintendo consoles through live television, which is also regarded as the beginning of e-sports. More than 30 years later, the game competition represented by League of Legends and Honor of Kings has become the official competition of the Hangzhou Asian Games, and the players who control electronic equipment also have the opportunity to win glory for the country.
There is no doubt that e-sports can become a global industry with higher popularity, better viewing experience, and both entertainment and competitive attributes, which is inseparable from the full promotion of modern technology. Ratings for events such as the League of Legends World Championship and the Honor of Kings Champions Cup have been able to match the top football and basketball competitions. Among them, the progress of hardware equipment has become the "guardian saint" to ensure the performance of players in the field and the fairness of the project.
A case in point is that almost every player who has been exposed to a PC or mobile game has the feeling that fluctuations in latency can affect the accuracy of instantaneous operations at the least, and at worst have a "devastating" impact on mentality and operation level. Ordinary gamers may not have much of a sense of 50ms latency, but in a professional arena where the details of each frame can determine the success or failure of the game, the 50ms delay is enough to greatly reduce the player's operation level, thereby reducing the fairness and enjoyment of the game.
In the past, there were also operational errors caused by delay fluctuations, and like many traditional sports events, if the above pain points cannot be completely dismantled, the fairness of e-sports events and the moat for long-term development will also be difficult to build.
Based on the in-depth insight of users and players, as well as the respect and exploration of the sportsmanship of fair play, many hardware manufacturers have also begun to work equipment in order to bring better protection to this emerging sport, which is still on the rise.
For example, iQOO, which has been deeply involved in the e-sports track for many years, has carried out in-depth cooperation with a number of top e-sports leagues since its establishment, and has been researching and developing mobile phone products for the "fast, stable and accurate" e-sports standards. In the past Hangzhou Asian Games, iQOO 11S was the official designated machine for the Hangzhou Asian Games e-sports event, witnessing the pinnacle of Chinese e-sports with Chinese players. The 2023 Honor of Kings World Championship Finals is being held today, and the iQOO 12 has once again become the official competition machine with its strong performance and strength. The company of more than 1,000 games has made iQOO a member who knows the player's operation habits best in addition to coaches, and also made professional e-sports players "bind" to iQOO.
Among them, the newly upgraded frame perception technology on iQOO 12 20 is the adjustment of the player's demand for "stability". Through the "frame-by-frame" recognition and load calculation of the game scene, accurate scheduling and distribution are realized, and the stable frame operation of the game is realized with a lower load. In more layman's terms, it can help players reduce frame drops and stutter in heavy load scenarios such as team battles, and better play their strengths.
On the other hand, unlike computer equipment to control the mouse and keyboard, the terminal device of mobile games such as Honor of Kings only has a mobile phone, which is destined to be the importance of mobile phones for whether the player's micro-operation feedback can be accurately presented in the highly tense on-site competition.
The sense of urgency brought about by the high concentration of nerves often causes players to have sweaty palms and cold hands, resulting in click deviation and affecting the operation at critical moments. Many e-sports players have also revealed that hand warmers or pine resin powder bags will be a rigid need for equipment in the competition. In the past, athletes used magnesium powder to eliminate the effects of sweaty hands on track and field and basketball courts. But in esports, these solutions are clearly not the most efficient.
In response to the risks of accidental touch and broken contact caused by sweaty hands, iQOO 12 gives full play to the advantages of super touch. Not only does it have the industry's best touch latency, but it also uses touch algorithm optimization technologies such as AI model recognition of hand sweat features and AI sliding error correction to effectively reduce the negative impact of operation interruption caused by hand sweat and hand lifting and hooking.
It is foreseeable that, just as VAR is to football and Hawkeye is to tennis, the continuous improvement of hardware equipment and breaking through the upper limit have greatly guarded the fairness and native experience of this event, allowing players to give full play to everyone's full potential in pure competitive competition.
And the benefits of this technology will eventually spread from the professional arena of a few people to the hands of every ordinary gamer.
In addition to e-sports, find the innovation anchor that belongs to Chinese technology manufacturers.
In the business world, front-end user and scenario insights are becoming more and more important. In all walks of life, there are many cases of successful iterative upgrading of products and industries through accurate market insights. Through the insight of the front-end scene in the confrontation of e-sports events, the product innovation of hardware and peripheral manufacturers also has greater imagination. In recent years, with the continuous improvement of the popularity of the game industry and the continuous expansion of the market scale, all kinds of new players have begun to emerge on the gradually crowded track, and many technology giants have also rushed in, eager to explore the most realistic feedback from users on hardware products from the front-end extreme technology scene.
For example, in recent years, game engines have begun to be widely used and implemented in industrial manufacturing, building construction and other fields, including the importance of games for AIGC large model training, and giant companies such as Microsoft have also taken relevant actions. It is foreseeable that in the future of the esports industry, games will not only be "games", but also a key to stimulating virtual worlds and intelligent technology.
iQOO, which has been deeply involved in the field of e-sports for many years, is a pioneer in practicing this concept. In 2019, the first generation of iQOO was unveiled, and the products with high performance and fast charging as the highlights quickly established the market positioning of the geek player group.
In the following nearly five years, almost every generation of iQOO digital flagship has had surprising technological innovations: from the first generation of 44W ultra-fast flash charging to iQOO 7's unique dual pressure sensitivity + dual motor + double Yang, to iQOO 8 Pro equipped with ultrasonic wide-area fingerprint, to iQOO 10 Pro, the world's first 200W ultra-fast flash charging, which has revolutionarily shortened the charging time to 10 minutes, and the iQOO 11S, which is the first to achieve super-resolution and super-frame concurrency, and now iQOO The birth of the self-developed e-sports chip Q1 on the 12 series.
On the basis of insisting on performance first, iQOO has extended technological innovation to more ordinary users' daily game use scenarios. To be able to generalize the scene and become one of the very few brands with independent research and development chips in China, accurate insight into users and market demand is indispensable.
From the demand side, the number of mobile game users in China will reach 6 in 2020With 9.5 billion people, this is undoubtedly a large and active group with a strong interest and engagement in mobile gaming, and a willingness to interact and share with other players. Role-playing (RPG) and action (ACT) games account for 40% of the total user base in game selection. The immersion, playability, and high-quality graphics required for this type of game also determine that the mobile game industry is destined to continue to iterate in the direction of personalization and high standards. Mobile phones have become the vanguard of "intergenerational innovation" in hardware.
On the supply side, mobile phones have developed rapidly in recent years, and in the context of the maturity of various product technologies, the e-sports experience of mobile devices wants to be further improved, and breaking through the power bottleneck is the only way to break the game, and the best answer is self-developed chips and algorithms. The reason is also very simple, for mobile phone manufacturers, on the one hand, to achieve collaborative innovation of software and hardware, the investment can be described as a bottomless pit, and self-developed chips can maximize cost reduction and efficiency increase. On the other hand, back to the power consumption itself, only the most efficient algorithm with the matching chip can achieve the best energy efficiency ratio and break through the power consumption bottleneck.
The self-developed e-sports chip Q1 can be said to be a differentiated breakthrough and innovation made by iQOO in understanding the future needs of users and market competition. Analyze the top 500 games of daily active users one by one, and analyze the characteristics, image quality, frame rate, power consumption and other modules of each game one by one, and at the same time, through chip optimization design and self-developed algorithm improvement, to achieve real low-latency frame interpolation, and combined with efficient chip computing paths, take the lead in realizing the industry's first in-game super-resolution and frame insertion concurrency technical capabilities, truly meeting the ultimate pursuit of "clear image quality" for mobile game users.
Up to now, there are only a handful of domestic mobile phone manufacturers that can achieve self-developed chips, and there are even fewer that can maximize the effect of chips on the product itself and play a multiplier effect with half the effort. In the final analysis, chip R&D's precision process requirements, design complexity, long R&D cycles, and potential intellectual property challenges have always been obstacles to players on the track. The strategic layout of always putting user needs first has given IQOO the courage to succeed.
Furthermore, after completing the spiral cycle of escorting e-sports events, continuously iterating products to improve performance, and then extending beyond the e-sports stage, to provide event-level experience for thousands of users. On the road of continuous integration and exploration of technology and sports, hardware manufacturers have also found their own innovation anchors.
Epilogue. Nowadays, games have gradually become a product of the integration of science and technology from a simple way of entertainment, and the change of hardware products has the most basic and important role in promoting the layout of the game and e-sports industry. As an important promoter of the mobile e-sports track, iQOO's success is the brand's accurate insight into the game needs of young people and the resonance of its love for competition, which has created a product that can promote its own and even the entire mobile phone industry's technological iteration with more lasting vitality and more surging innovation in the ever-changing market, and these iterations will in turn promote the better development of the game industry.
In the repeated spiral and alternating ascent, the ultimate mission of technology manufacturers has gradually become clear.