What do you think about the current state of VR? I read this and it goes completely with what I have thought of VR which will follow extremely closely with computers, tablets, and phones back when they first arose same as every other electronic worth a shit. Beginning of the technology is expensive and slightly bulky / not as immersive or useful to being used worldwide in nearly every household. Today, virtual reality is poised to change the way we interact with and control computers. Like the introduction of computers more than 50 years ago, its impacts are unknown. Will there be VR in every house, classroom, and office? Will immersing oneself in a computer-generated world be as commonplace as watching a movie? About the only thing that does seem certain about VR is that it will grow and develop. And as the technology matures, it will become better, cheaper, and more accessible. Furthermore, the networks that link computers will expand, making it possible for VR to weave its way into our daily lives. Clearly, the future of VR is limited only by our imaginations. What do you think about Virtual Reality and where it is going and the limits of its possibilities. I am sure that over the next 20-50 years we will start seeing mainly the science fiction shit that most people have grown up seeing such as hover boards (currently out in early production stages), Virtual Reality, Creation of A.I. that would be human like and would talk and respond to us logically just like any conversation, Personal information will also be non existent until we can make some real security programs that protect that kind of shit.
Still waiting for my nerve gear =P The ultimate VR is more than just looking through lenses. But somehow manipulating your brain to believe you're entirely somewhere else, feeling things you're not, etc.
I think it'll be quite some time for it to reach a good peam. It is exciting though, so many people don't even know about it, surprisingly.
Some of the immediate results could be really interesting though. Think about watching a "movie" with the action happening all around you. Some kind of pod with temperature/fans to make you feel environmental changes and movement once the tech progresses could be pretty cool as well.
Nerve gear is my shit, That is what I would consider the peak of the technology once we can do a full dive syncing our brain and the computer environment. for full immersion of all our senses and for the most part being asleep or in a mini coma while using the device.
Technologically speaking, maybe 30ish years. However, you have to consider the moral implications of VR as well. Would the separate reality be better than our own? If so, what's stopping anyone from becoming depressed and/or spending most of their time in the virtual world, essentially wasting away? Would we allow combat games which could actually train people effectively in becoming soldiers? Imagine Call of Duty in VR. Hyper realistic stuff, where you're holding the gun and everything. You'd be training a vigilante population and doing a complete and utter desensitization to all violence.
We already have the virtual reality technology in use with the military, we are mainly just trying to use that technology expand upon it and add the best possible graphics that we are becoming available daily. I'm sure there will be learning VR videos and practices that would allow you to learn and experience what you would regularly have to travel to pay an instructor for or run to the library and grab the book or in today's age buy the app or digital version of the book but have a more physical looking digital locker to hold and access them. When we can do anything in the virtual world and make our own rules there then I believe that the real world will benefit from it as well. Making a virtual reality could very well turn into the matrix. Once we make a machine that can think and do and control shit cause we are to lazy to and it can program itself and other new tech we have never seen that's when we'll have to worry
This seems the most realistic. Many games lately are like half cut scenes anyways, I think itd be a really natural implementation. I bet itd give you really bad motion sickness though.
That's where the technology is at a stand still when it comes to the price for the average customer. Something is worth only what people will pay for it, usually we get screwed and pay an extremely inflated price for everything we buy to help pay for the actually cost of making the product and line the pockets of the manufacturer. But looking where even your standard computer has come in both size and price is amazing. I can only imagine the technology that will available in 50+ years compared to the crap we had 50 years ago that we called technology. It is both terrible and amazing on the time period we were born in, It blows that I wont be able to see what is to come until I am old as fuck and don't know how to work what has become basic technology knowledge. but it allows our generations and every one to come after us including every baby born today to make up the future and make completely new technologies never before seen or thought of and expand and tweak the current ones we deal with on a daily basis. I am sure that over the next 20-50 years we will start seeing mainly the science fiction shit that most people have grown up seeing such as hover boards (currently out in early production stages), Virtual Reality, Creation of A.I. that would be human like and would talk and respond to us logically just like any conversation, Personal information will also be non existent until we can make some real security programs that protect that kind of shit.
Some things help with that. Expanded field of view (A given in VR) and constant things like a dot or something in the background. Also things like turning off motion blur. Personally I don't think it'd be terrible unless you have a weak stomach. I know people who get sick watching 3d movies for example which I never have.
I heard Google maps had a Pokemon contest that made people go around and "catch" different Pokemon by going to certain places. It was an april fools joke i think but I would also think it was a sort of beta test to see the interest and the uproar it caused to eventually make a game like that. I think that a game with something like that and actually interacting and battling with Pokemon for sure would be bad ass.
Everyone take a look at what Microsoft is coming out with, It's crazy how technologies advancing so quick. http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us
Yea but a lot of people though Google glasses were cool till they came out with an outrageous price. I will buy this though. If it's simulare to oracle then they will be awesomeree
I'm excited at the relatively low barrier to entry as well. The oculus VR will officially launch mid 2015 with a $200 price tag. I believe I read it has sli support to running each lense with a separate video card sounds awesome. Honestly I haven't even gotten to experience VR myself so it'll probably be my first device.
Have you used google cardboard yet? just uses your phone and special apps fro the app store that makes your phone into a mini VR headset. Nearly the same thing as Samsungs VR headset that requires the note 4 to use just samsung didn't make it out of cardboard. I believe you can buy google cardboard for like $8.
