Real Life Holodeck With An Oculus Rift

that's cool but i would not want to walk around whit that thing where the stuff im seeing is not there would have to be a really odd felling but that whit some kind of porn set up and they would be billionaires. think of having that during sex you could have your wife/gf/who ever look like anyone you ever wanted
 
"... and here's the best part: it has an outward facing camera that can record all of your interactions for us -- I mean for you!"
 
Wake me up when you don't need any fancy equipment to be on you. Cool proof of concept/technology demonstration, but still decades to go to an actual holodeck experience, especially where you can actually touch and feel objects, wind blowing your hair, rain, etc!
 
Phoenix333 said:
Or anything. Say hello to virtual bestiality, pedophilia, and yiffing. :rolleyes:
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Well, better that they keep it in VR rather than act it out in RL, right?

That said, I have no idea what "yiffing" is and from context clues, I'm assuming I don't want to know.
 
tunatime said:
that's cool but i would not want to walk around whit that thing where the stuff im seeing is not there would have to be a really odd felling but that whit some kind of porn set up and they would be billionaires. think of having that during sex you could have your wife/gf/who ever look like anyone you ever wanted
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Except if you project a hot thai chick with little hips into your brain, but then realize you're having to reach your hands five feet across, it'll be an unpleasant reminder that you're really mounting your shamoo wife. :(
 
Chunder said:
Wake me up when you don't need any fancy equipment to be on you. Cool proof of concept/technology demonstration, but still decades to go to an actual holodeck experience, especially where you can actually touch and feel objects, wind blowing your hair, rain, etc!
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Thank you. Not sure what all the noise about this is when unless this can be shrunk down to the size of sunglasses, its going to relegated to neck beards with money.
 
You could get a lot of exercise playing America's Army or whatever, running around a training center rather than sitting on the couch.
 
xX_Jack_Carver_Xx said:
You could get a lot of exercise playing America's Army or whatever, running around a training center rather than sitting on the couch.
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Have you ever sweat heavily while wearing earmuffs? And I can only imagine how nasty the VR goggles would get, since they have to keep out light.

Might need a drain valve to let all the sweat drip out the bottom.
 
One of the parts that I thought was most interesting was the ability to "hack" the wearer's sense of direction to make the room much bigger (or even infinite), by exploiting the fact that humans can't walk in a straight line blindfolded.

Given a big enough room, the same technique could even be used with a vehicle, like a go-kart or something. Maybe include a system where the VR computer could dynamically adjust the feedback on the gas, brake, and steering wheel, in order to generate a more "realistic" false sense of speed and direction.
 
Yea making it seem endless was the interesting part, I didn't think it would work messing with turn speeds like that.

This combined with that camera tracking system posted here the other day would be neat. You could put real objects in the room for tactile feedback and such. I'd pay 20 bucks to try it out for a few minutes.
 
The heavy backpack on their original model would have made the military shooters more realistic. Infantrymen carry 80+ pounds of equipment.
 
The guy in the original video actually did say something very cool. He said they had a 3D printer that they used to make the parts for the virtual helmet. And when they break something, they just print another.

I think that is actually a more foretelling statement of our future. While I don't doubt that the Holodeck will eventually exist. I think printing tangible products (and hopefully open sourcing those products) will happen sooner.
 
westrock2000 said:
Good training there. Full tactical gear and an assault rifle to get a dude in a house with a hand gun. And more full tactical gear while storming the elementary school. Good training :cool:
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He had an ounce of weed. obviously SWAT is the correct response :rolleyes:
 
Not a holodeck, not even like a holodeck, Cannot even be possibly confused for a holodeck and frankly they should all be beaten with towels and soap bars for even trying to sell it as a near holodeck experience. It is nothing more than an amusing VR program that you would have to be a total tool to think you are in a holodeck.
 
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