What is immersive live streaming?
The Wise Sovereign harbored this question, watching as Angel and Kaier entered the Hanging Jail Stairway.
As Angel’s figure disappeared, the surrounding floating star river began to slowly change. Everyone suddenly felt a sensation of sinking, as if they stood on soft cotton candy or warm mire, their bodies continuously subsiding in a sweet and fervent embrace...
This feeling wasn’t unpleasant; it even carried a lazy comfort, gradually calming their moods.
"Changing emotions imperceptibly has a hint of Heart Illusion." The Wise Sovereign pondered, although outwardly there were no signs of drastic emotional change, even the Black Earl didn’t notice anything, but as an old monster bored for millennia, he had quite a bit of confidence in his control over his emotions.
Even though he couldn’t detect the emotional changes influenced by illusion, the other side definitely did some guiding.
It felt a bit like Heart Illusion but without the traces of Heart Illusion. The Wise Sovereign had been somewhat puzzled about this peculiar illusion before, and even after personally experiencing it, he still couldn’t pinpoint at which step Angel’s illusion showed an anomaly, nor where this anomaly originated from.
As the Wise Sovereign was contemplating, the power of the illusion completely enveloped them. Soft, comfortable, without a sense of suffocation.
Only their feet felt slightly weightless.
When the feeling of weightlessness disappeared, they fell from not too high in the air.
In the end, everyone landed in a fragmented ruin, and at the center of the ruin stood two people, one being Angel, lazily leaning against the doorframe, and the other being Kaier, who looked at everyone in surprise with a hand over his mouth.
"Is this... the inside of the Hanging Jail Stairway?" Vay looked around in astonishment.
"Yes." The Black Earl, also drawn by the scene, responded. He had been here before and was quite familiar with it: "This is the first room after entering the door."
"How did we suddenly arrive here? Is this an illusion?" Vay stepped back in shock.
He felt something behind him and turned to see... the Wise Sovereign!
Vay was startled, rapidly stepping back several steps, finally hiding behind the Black Earl, and trembled as he spoke: "Why, why is the Wise Sovereign also here? Did he destroy the earth’s ring wall?"
The Black Earl looked at the close Wise Sovereign and gently shook his head: "No destruction. This is simulated using illusion."
"Illusion simulation?" Vay exclaimed: "So this Wise Sovereign is fake?"
Before the Black Earl could answer, the Wise Sovereign looked over with a smile: "I’m not fake; someone just used illusion to bring us closer. But this closeness is only apparent, while in reality, we’re still very far apart."
"Then why can I touch you?" Vay still didn’t understand.
Vay’s question had just fallen when he was attracted by Dox’s shout from the side: "Is this made of Porodense Stone?"
Vay turned his head to look, only to see Dox had already run to a corner of the ruins, holding a milky-white square brick.
Under his feet were similar square bricks, though most had shattered; only the one in Dox’s hand remained intact and flawless.
"I’ve handled Porodense Stone many times, and this feel is definitely Porodense Stone!"
As Dox exclaimed, he looked toward Angel: "Gold, is this Porodense Stone?"
The Wise Sovereign intended to say, this is an illusionary realm, separated by other-dimensional space, there’s no way they can answer you. You need to ask in the Mind Ribbon.
However, unexpectedly, Angel, upon hearing Dox’s call, lazily turned his head and said: "Why do you care? These are all simulated by me, and you can’t take them out anyway."
"No problem, when I come in later, I can take them out!" Dox replied with satisfaction: "By the way, I saw it first, so it belongs to me!"
Dox was completely mesmerized by the benefits in front of him, not even considering the anomalies of this illusionary realm.
The others, however, looked at Angel with eyes full of suspicion.
How on earth was this done? They were clearly outside, so how did they follow Angel into the Hanging Jail Stairway? If this was an illusion, how did Angel achieve this?
Not just the apprentices, even the Black Earl and Wise Sovereign were astounded.
If this were illusion technique, it’s equivalent to directly leading them into the Hanging Jail Stairway!
The Wise Sovereign at this point gently crouched down and scooped up a handful of porcelain-like soil ash from the ground.
Judging from the surrounding shattered floor tiles, the soil ash should have been left behind by the shattered Porodense Stone.
The Wise Sovereign slowly rubbed the soil ash, sensing its fine and smooth texture, a feel that indeed matched that of Porodense Stone after breaking.
"Is this also what you simulated using illusion?" The Wise Sovereign looked towards Angel.
Even taking a step back, he might be able to comprehend the overarching cohesion of the illusionary realm. However, down to such exquisite detail, all perfectly replicated... you tell me this is illusion?
"Yes." Angel somewhat deflatedly replied to the Wise Sovereign, then turned to another side: "Red, can you stop what you’re doing, stop rummaging through everything."
"And you, why are you getting involved, put down the dust in your hand." Angel also looked at Vay, who was following the Wise Sovereign’s lead, scooping up soil ash from the ground.
With Angel’s rebuke, Dox and Vay halted their actions and obediently put down what they had in their hands.
With all those items dropped, Angel’s expression slightly eased.
"This is a live stream, understand? It’s not for you to treasure hunt, it’s for you to watch with your eyes." Angel scolded: "Every time you touch these things, it consumes a large amount of my computing power, especially the Wise Sovereign and that dust in your hand."
"Do you know how much computing power they consumed of mine? You don’t!"
Angel: "Consuming computing power like this, I might as well just stand here and serve you all specifically! How am I supposed to continue streaming?"
The Wise Sovereign, hearing this, gently placed the soil ash in his hand back on the ground: "Our touching these things, being able to sense their real textures, is that your consumption of computing power?"
Angel nodded: "Exactly. This is a synchronous live stream. The so-called synchronous means that everything I perceive inside, you can immediately see. What I see is what you see; what I get is what you get."
"This is not as simple as pre-arranging an illusionary realm. Real-time presentation of the illusionary realm, and simulating all the things you touch, consumes computing power."
The illusionary realm in the Shadow Box of the plays has no variables. Even in the experiential Shadow Box of plays where you make your own choices, it seems the choice of the experiencer is a variable, but in reality, there is no variable at all; once the Shadow Box is made, a self-consistent logical chain already exists, with any choice within this logical chain.
Whereas this immersive holographic live stream that Angel set up can be said to have variables everywhere.