Posted on 05/27/2015 4:55:39 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Since the Oculus Rift presents a completely enclosed headset with an entirely virtualized environment, the conditions required to make this perfectly emulate the outside real world are more stringent than with Microsoft’s system, where you’re literally seeing your surroundings at the same time an overlay is projected on top. Surreal Vision’s goal at Oculus is to perfectly continuously capture and reconstruct the outside world in the virtual environment, to the extent that a user wouldn’t be able to distinguish between the two experiences.
Achieving that would mean telepresence on an entirely new scale; you could attend a meeting on Mars from the comfort of your office, for instance, or just visit with relatives in an instant from the opposite side of the country.
Surreal Vision’s founding team is a group of three high-flying PhDs in the field of real-time scene reconstruction, and the UK-based squad will join Oculus Research in Redmond, Washington to continue their work.
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So a Muslim could cut your head off while you think you are rafting the Colorado.
An interesting long-range goal, but I think Microsoft’s approach is actually the better one for the near term. Let’s start with VR being an “augmented reality” system that enhances the real world rather than constructing a complete VR world.
Of course, Microsoft’s approach seems to be geared at the scientific/tech level - i.e., for industrial or research use, and Oculus Rift is focused on home/entertainment use, so they have different objectives. I’m just not sure the tech is there for Oculus Rift yet.
I’m just excited about this and Hololens. If you’ve read science fiction (I have for 50 decades), we’ve been waiting for these technologies a long time.
There is so much more to invent, and more importantly manufacture and field! Can’t wait to try these technologies.
Next up: full body suits using haptic feedback.
lol. Or even better, the muslim cuts off your virtual head while you raft the Colorado.
“So a Muslim could cut your head off while you think you are rafting the Colorado.”
And everyone else watching your head being cut off will have their realities altered by the VR goggles to make it more politically correct!
I can just see it now... They’ll integrate smartphones with these VR goggles and the smartphone zombies (as I call them) will be even more out to lunch as they walk in and out of traffic at crosswalks.
Matrix?
Or watching a video of a beheading becomes a whole new experience, as you watch your own head hit the ground.
I find it interesting the author takes the time to differentiate between the Oculus product and Microsoft’s when they’re not related at all...and the Oculus product has far more recognition from its ‘developer’ release and geek word-of-mouth.
I see real innovation being unlocked at MS (finally); Oculus, and their supporters (such as the author) would do well not to anger the giant if they want to hang onto their meager market while their product develops to something marketable (a universal wearable VR device for games to replace monitors/tvs is forthcoming, imho). Telling is their need to ‘acquire’ another company without actually gaining anything except ‘expertise’...
Google Glass has vanished; this transitory period will be interesting to see what emerges as marketable on the other side.
HoloLens and Oculus are the beginning of a revolution.
As just one very small example, can you imagine how it will affect business travel...or just travel in general for that matter.
On the negative side, society better be prepared a whole bunch of porn addicts.
And, of course. . .certain attachments for those full-haptics, that will become a bonanza for the porn industry. . .
I forget the movie, but there was a scene where a friend of the inventer (now out to stop the use of his invention) was discovered in a chair spasming every couple of seconds
The inventer ran to his friend and removed the helmet and looked in and discovered pornograhy had been playing nonstop all night
Later in the movie the friend, visibly wasted and in therapy, no longer a brilliant programmer/scientist/inventer ... thanked his inventer friend
That's all I remember and THAT scene has stayed with me all these years ... turning me away from VR ANYthing
The opportunity for abuse is WAYYYY too great and the aftermath could be devastating
Imagine ANY world leader today (already the NORK fatboy is a lunatic) ... donning a helmet and having his mind pumped full of God only knows what
Nope ... IMO ... shut the VR down
“If you’ve read science fiction (I have for 50 decades)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7AD_TmxiXM
“And everyone else watching your head being cut off will have their realities altered by the VR goggles to make it more politically correct!”
Why do we need these goggles when we have MSNBC?
“as you watch your own head hit the ground.”
I’m having a little trouble...wrapping my head around that.
What is “real world?”
Non-virtual.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Palms
Oliver Stone’s “Wild Palms” previewed this 20 years ago.
Great mini-series, very worth watching.
This is not benign. It’s electronic heroin mainlined directly into your brain. Watch Oliver Stone’s terrific 1993 five-hour mini-series “Wild Palms” to understand what will follow easily available VR for the masses. Free heroin in kiosks would be no more dangerous to society.
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