Archive for the ‘virtual reality’ category: Page 103
Jul 21, 2015
Wall Street analysts say virtual reality can’t go mainstream until these issues are fixed — Corey Stern | Business Insider
Posted by Seb in category: virtual reality
“‘We are unsure if gamers and general consumers alike are willing to spend long periods of time alone, in a confined space, with a headset, and completely shut off from surrounding environment,’ [Oppenheimer analysts] wrote of the limiting characteristics. This brings us to the social issue: virtual reality has so far only been a single person experience.” Read more
Jul 20, 2015
Virtual Reality: The next frontier — By Mark Piesing | Financial Times
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: virtual reality
Immersive virtual reality is the vision of a computer-generated reality that looks, sounds, smells and feels so authentic that it psychologically tricks our brain into accepting that it is real.
Jun 15, 2015
Virtual-reality display allows stroke patients to spontaneously recover use of paralyzed arm
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, virtual reality
Jun 10, 2015
Oculus Rift, Magic Leap, and the Future of Reality … By Ava Kofman | The Atlantic
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: augmented reality, electronics, hardware, information science, innovation, media & arts, software, virtual reality
Vannevar Bush’s prediction, half a century later, rings true: “The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.”
Jun 8, 2015
Virtual reality rape: Transhumanists highlight ethical issues arising from new technology
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: futurism, transhumanism, virtual reality
Jun 2, 2015
We’re Seriously Underestimating the Virtual-Reality Market — Sergio Aguirre | Re/Code
Posted by Seb in categories: entertainment, virtual reality
“Most of the VR prototypes we’ve seen so far use a wraparound headset. But this “shut out everything” hardware paradigm could seriously limit adoption, especially in consumer markets. There’s actually an emerging category of virtual experiences that allow a user to experience digital objects as if they were real, without the need for a wraparound headset. There hasn’t been as much chatter about it, but “non-enveloping” VR could be one of the biggest, most important parts of this new wave of digital-analog world interfaces.”
Jun 1, 2015
Do we really want to fuse our brains together? — Peter Watts | AEON
Posted by Seb in categories: neuroscience, virtual reality
“What are the implications of a technology that wires brains together, that in theory at least permits the existence of hive minds? In fact, you know a lot more about that than you might think. You already are a hive mind. You always have been.” Read more
May 25, 2015
The Emotional Amplifier — Patrick O’Luanaigh | Develop
Posted by Seb in category: virtual reality
“Probably the worst scenario as a game designer is that players experience something in your VR game that freaks them out so badly, they rip the headset off and refuse to put it back on again. Moreover, because VR is an emotion amplifier, all sorts of negative emotions and fears can become apparent that even the player may not have known about before. “ Read more
May 23, 2015
What Is the Metaverse? Philip Rosedale’s Big Dream for Immersive Virtual Worlds — By Jason Dorrier SingualrityHub
Posted by Seb in category: virtual reality
What is the metaverse? It’s Philip Rosedale’s second crack at playing god—at least in the virtual sense. Rosedale created his first virtual world, Second Life, in 2002. Now, he and his new company, High Fidelity, are building another world in silica—and this time, they’re thinking on planetary scales.
Speaking at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality (SVVR) conference this week, Rosedale said that by harnessing the shared power of home PCs, “We could collectively create a space whose literal scale is comparable to the landmass of the planet Earth.” Sound ambitious? It is, and it isn’t. Read more
