There was a VR game unit out in the states several years ago that was a head set. 3, 4 games came out and it basicly died. New tech could bring it back maybe. Add gyro recognition that when you turn your head the senery changes? Hmm?

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

haha! i think you're talking about Virtual Boy. that thing sucked major balls. you had to crane your neck to stare into this viewer thing that was basically red on black graphics. i played one at Toys R Us one time and it was terrible.

a startrek holo-deck type system would be pretty cool however. i would totally buy me one of those

Kyp

The other day, in study hall, i farted really loud, you know...so the guys would laugh...and i swear it was so hanus that Susie Johnson almost ralphed up her salsbury steak.
it was freakin sweet...

I read about a completely immersive VR system that should be out in the next ten years or sooner. It is basically a 'suit' of smart materials that mimic the feel of the surrounding environment. A headset with a holographic display perfeclty mimics sight, and movement drivers running parralell to the bones outside the suit monitor movement and feedback from the game. The whole system is mounted on a gyroscopic assembly to simulate gravitation.The only problem is if you are lying on your back the whole suit will have to have a tensile strength higher than your body weight in order to support you.



Small things entertain small minds, while smaller minds look on in wonder.

Screw temporal paradox, im interfering!

Could be cool to experience. On the other hand, I'm not sure i'd like to feel the whole, say, 10 g when flying a space fighter and doing different stunts
Anyway, somehow I have a feeling that most of us won't have enough finances to buy any of the stuff if it comes to life

An idea came to my head and is now desperately searching for brain

At a place called Dave & Busters in Ga., there is a virtual reality rollercoster. It does 360 in a sphere rotation. Inside you look at a 180 deg left, front, right screen of a rollercoaster, it has a air blowing on you from different vents to sim the different directions and is very believable. $5 per ride of about 30 to 45 seconds.

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

i would imagine there would be problems if it were too real
how for example do you simulate a hit on the player in a fighting game ie pain etc
might not be a best seller

I think a VR Wing Commander game would be cool, or Starlancer for that matter

"A TopGun through and through"

Like Steel said, how would you ever be able to have a sense of reality without all the senses that go with it, like for instance, pain.

Why do people want to have such an experience which is so close to reality anyway. What if VR is one day so advanced that you can feal and smell and realy exprerience everything into detail and it would feal "real", what would happen if you died...?

Take those horror games for instance and picture yourself walking around in a wearhouse or something, terrible lighting, creapy music, and suddenly a 6 foot monster biting your head off.

I think the experience would be to heavy. You either go crazy or you go num to shield yourself from the emotional aspects and basically become a zombie.

Nah, I'll stick to my 17" flatscreen

At the glastonbury festival a few years ago there was a "VR Tent"...packed full of VR games...really good fun. My favourite was this thing that looked a bit like the game out of "The Lawnmower Man"....2 "units" that you lie face first inside, your whole body is covered and locked into position and there is a handlebar in front of you. It was a "speeder bike" type game where you race against a friend - and the whole unit moves side to side, up and down while you play. Superb fun when you're trashed.

Remember, the Matrix was a virtual reality, and when Neo fell, he felt it in the real world. Some physical stimulation would be needed to make it real of you would be just watching a screen. A virtual suit could have heating and cooling ability and in the scene, you would touch ice, the suite could triger a cold feeling. Hmmm?

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

and what if you touched Lava??
The overload of heat impulses you get from the suit would at the least severely Burn you.

Like steel said, it is best if there is no environmental impulses at all, the results could be devastating, and worse if the suit malfunctioned, you could end up Braindead by an overload of your neuron system which destroys your synapses, or you could end up Burning alive, or freezing into a big lump of ice.

please keep in mind that the power of the mind is at the least very powerfull, it dominates your body and keeps everything in order if you start to expose that to near real impulses how do you think your body will react?? do you think your mind can cope with you dying in such a game, and after that will see that your heart is still beating.... while you are supposed to be dead, what do you think your mind will do to your body??

Like with Holo decks, you can put in safety proticols, so there would be no harm done. But the programing would be huge for just the graphics part.

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

Safety Protocols or not,... its far too dangerous for now, and those holodecks are something else as VR, Holodecks are complete visualisations with holograms, with VR you are put up with glasses, and via those glasses you get to see the virtual world

Yeah, and the other (kinda important) difference: Holodecks don't excist