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Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:19 am
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| Well, in my mind, virtual reality is going to be the addiction of the future. I reckon the headset and that sort of stuff is going to go out the window; the next generation of VR is going to be brain-wave controlled. And when this happens, people are not going to leave the VR in too much of a hurry; it would give them all they desire, in a world where they would be the person they would ideally want to be…tailor made to suit their conception of themselves! |
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Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:20 am
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| I agree about the future of Virtual Reality, though I don’t think it is going to do the society any good. Man is a social animal, and if virtual reality’s use advances to the scale you are pointing to, then more and more people will escape to the cyber space rather then face real life. I think for the little good that it would bring the harmful side if Virtual reality is should be far more highlighted. |
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Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:19 am
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Virtual Reality has for the past 30 years been tipped as "The next big thing" however for that duration of time it's never seemed to have gotten past infancy. The main reason for this has been due to the nature of hardware and software being insufficient to support it.
Over the past couple of years, the baseline home computer specification has increased, the numbers of people with a computer in their household have increased and the numbers of countries that have communication infrastructure plans in effect have also increased.
The nature of VR requires high bandwidth and hardware, the hardware is currently available, the Bandwidth is still to come (Notibly the advance of Syncronous Digital Subscriber Line [SDSL])
I do have an idea of how to increase the bandwidth and generate some VR systems however it's still in its infancy stage and to talk about it openly could mean losing my legal right to it.
I would suggest however that the future for Virtual Reality will actually be more "Augmented Reality" where the mergence of Computer-Generated Imagery [CGI] is overlayed over a glass panel that you can see the real world through. Namely you could have a computer generated postit note to stick on the wall in your house through the aid of a visor.
"Augmented Reality" lowers the "woozey" factor caused by the optical illusion of movement within an artificial visual environment by allowing a user to be able to stay preportionally within the real world. |
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Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:05 am
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| stryder wrote: |
The nature of VR requires high bandwidth and hardware, the hardware is currently available, the Bandwidth is still to come (Notibly the advance of Syncronous Digital Subscriber Line [SDSL])
I do have an idea of how to increase the bandwidth and generate some VR systems however it's still in its infancy stage and to talk about it openly could mean losing my legal right to it.
I would suggest however that the future for Virtual Reality will actually be more "Augmented Reality" where the mergence of Computer-Generated Imagery [CGI] is overlayed over a glass panel that you can see the real world through. Namely you could have a computer generated postit note to stick on the wall in your house through the aid of a visor.
"Augmented Reality" lowers the "woozey" factor caused by the optical illusion of movement within an artificial visual environment by allowing a user to be able to stay preportionally within the real world. |
I would have to disagree with you that the hardware capable for supporting VR that could become anything addictive already exists. For VR to be something a person prefers over reality the man machine interface needs to be developed that can interact with all senses. A connection directly to the brain would be best but it is also very invasive. Sony however has put out a prophetic patent that would use Ultrasonic pulses to stimulate neurons within the brain that would be a noninvasive solution. A helmet could be developed with such technology that could literally transport you to the dream world of your fantasy! But ultrasonic waveforms have large wavelengths so pinpointing signals to specific synapses is not possible. This means that the resolution of such a system will be courser than our natural perceptions give us, but you got to start somewhere. |
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Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:16 am
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Frankinstien, I read about the Sony Patent too and It is good but we should not put too many hopes on such a technology that has inherent limitations built in, which means that I do agree with you completely.
We do not wish to end up being hooked into a matrix. 
The direction of virtual reality improvement is that of realising 4D visual dynamics as well as sound, but smell and touch are considered invasive information that could trigger reflexes of survival unlike the conditioned reactions of visual and audio information.
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Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:20 pm
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| HEMETIS wrote: |
We do not wish to end up being hooked into a matrix.
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I do not agree that we do not wish to end up being hooked into a matrix.
The progression to a matrix like interface for VR obviously has it limits due to the complexity of such a connection that would make a brain interface costly. This does not however prevent a cultural transition to cyberization. Consider the resistance of stem cell research and cloning because of this cultural attitude emphasis on artificial prosthetics becomes the primary means of sustaining life. The direct brain machine interface will be made accessible at first for the handicap but as the technology matures it will be used to continue life. Such gradual progression will inevitably lead to the social acceptance of brain interfaces and what was at first used to remedy a very compromising condition will be used to enhance human desires. No different than plastic surgery.
The need for constraints of such technology become serious issues since such a brain interface can cause confusions between reality and VR. Of course such constraints can be by passed illegally and so just as narcotics are an underground economy so will hacks to the constraints to VR interfaces. Just as narcotics are an addictive problem in societies so too will VR. However with dwindling resources, pollution, global warming and over population a "Matrix" world that sustains human life in a tube providing the minimum resources to maintain life could be a practical solution. Consider it over war, disease and of course genocide... (A much better story plot IMHO over the original “Matrix”) |
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Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:42 am
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We do not wish to end up being hooked into a matrix.
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I do not agree that we do not wish to end up being hooked into a matrix. |
Then we should agree to disagree. 
The essence of humanity is in our vulnerability.
A matrix tyrant would eventually feed on other helpless brains.
What are the choices available for the hooked up compared to those of those who do the hooking?
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