I don't know about you guys but I can't wait until there is stuff like the training simulation they put Denzel through. Maybe the playstation 7? 8? I want it!!! Just think about how fun it would be online. Join a game and all these random guys jump in and you just run around and do whatever. So fun.
shareWhen robots take over and turn us into their slaves. lol
shareThe technology I have seen isn’t like what was in the movie. What is presented in the movie allows the viewer to associate what they are seeing to something they are already familiar with, ie. Video games. We have essentially what they presented in the movie. Sony and couple of other companies market head mount displays HMD or video phones. The game pads are becoming more ergonomic. Take a modern game pad break it in half and put it in the hand rest of an easy chair. Get some head phones and sit back with you Xbox360 and enjoy.
I have seen examples of interfaces that allow a person to be directly connected, “wired”, to a computer and be able to control it. It is still kind of clumsy. We take a lot of things for granted about our bodies. With this type of interface they are essentially adding another limb to our body that hasn’t developed through the process of evolution.
There have been devices for the blind that let them see to some degree. On a blind person they connect to an undamaged part of the visual cortex and allow them to “see” shapes and shadows. I haven’t heard anything new about this in a while but the same old story pops up regularly.
From the examples I have seen, we could have a wet wire interface in the 10 – 25 years easily (depending on your level of completeness) but we still need a powerful enough computer to attach it to.
Awesome, interesting knowledge.
shareits now 2012 and it will be here shortly.
shareYou would think so, but no.
No hardware of today can run the billions upon billions of required calculations a second to run such a perfect VR inviroment as shown in the movie.
They are messing with computers set up in clusters at universities all arround the world, who can run billions of calculations a second, but even those are yet to slow tu run the ultimate VR inviroment where you can't tell the difference between VR and reality.
I guess it is very far feteched. I did like how in the game they made the color deliberately super charged, and the characters or 'sprites' were all zombie robotic-like. Looked believable as a simulation but not too similar to reality. And yeah, I'd imagine that acheiving that simulated flesh 'n' blood look and feel seems very far off by todays computer graphics capabilities. The processing power would be phenomenal. And what about the fact they had the persons brain hardwired into it?
share💻 Ok so it's 9 years later since your post and although true VR is a long way off, computers are getting more powerful, using smaller components to run them. I too, would love to see VR video games/movies etc., in my lifetime & I think this is probably a first step in getting there:
http://www.stereoscopynews.com/hotnews/3d-technology/holography