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Rukkus · #1 (**permalink**) 02-03-2003, 03:39 PM

such thing as 4D ??

**Tekime** · #2 (**permalink**) 02-03-2003, 03:49 PM

Sure, the 4th dimension being time I do believe.

Except video games aren't real 3D, it's 2d since it's ona flat monitor. Can't wait to virtual reality takes off...

Rukkus · #3 (**permalink**) 02-03-2003, 03:53 PM

id love VR to take off too but all the "VR" games out now suck ...like VR racing and VR fighter ....the graphix are boxy almost Atari like

**Tekime** · #4 (**permalink**) 02-03-2003, 04:20 PM

Yeah those games are pretty cheesy. Once VR hardware becomes cheaper and more common I'm sure we'll see tons fo games for it. I just hope I get a piece of the market before it saturates like everything else cool

**Technophile** · #5 (**permalink**) 03-22-2003, 05:01 PM

Once they figure out how to tap into our nervous system and send signals to our brain we can have totally immersive virtual reality. If they did it detailed enough, your brain would have no way of telling the difference between that and "reality".

**Tekime** · #6 (**permalink**) 03-22-2003, 05:10 PM

I hope we have the capability in my lifetime, that would be fucking insane. It could be incredibly dangerous too, a virus really would be a virus :shock: I'm sure people would start hacking into other people's brains and trying to control their actions... I'm sure all kinds of weird shit could happen.

I think normal VR needs to gain some ground first; i.e. headset, motion sensors, hopefully physical and scent reproduction. I think one of the hardest things to simulate would be motion -- like falling out of an airplane and getting that feeling of your stomach crawling up your throat. This kind of stuff might make it necessary to really tap into the nervous system. We should pioneer the revolution of virtual reality to the consumer market, something I've wanted to do for a long time now :mrgreen:

**Technophile** · #7 (**permalink**) 03-22-2003, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by tekime

I hope we have the capability in my lifetime, that would be fucking insane. It could be incredibly dangerous too, a virus really would be a virus :shock: I'm sure people would start hacking into other people's brains and trying to control their actions... I'm sure all kinds of weird shit could happen.

Hahahaha yeah that'd be crazy! :mrgreen:

I think normal VR needs to gain some ground first; i.e. headset, motion sensors, hopefully physical and scent reproduction. I think one of the hardest things to simulate would be motion -- like falling out of an airplane and getting that feeling of your stomach crawling up your throat. This kind of stuff might make it necessary to really tap into the nervous system. We should pioneer the revolution of virtual reality to the consumer market, something I've wanted to do for a long time now :mrgreen:[/quote]

VR is definately cool. a headset with motion sensors so you can look around with be cool on it's own. And if you brought back the power gloves, use motion sensors, that'd be really cool for a lot of games. Plain pedals on the floor for foot movement would be sufficient to start with. It'd still be pretty cool and it's just building on the stuff we got now. To really get touch, smell, or especially taste I think you'd really have to tap into the nervous system. I can't imagine any other way of pulling it off.

**Tekime** · #8 (**permalink**) 03-22-2003, 08:09 PM

Well I've heard of devices emulating smells, but touch would be hard. Water, sandpaper, jello, falling 1,000 feet, how do you emulate those things? I definitely agree that you would need to tap into the nervous system. That would be mighty screwed up plugging in to your computer, though! :shock: :shock:

I've had a book for years now, on making VR equipment out of LCD's, Nintendo power gloves, even head tracking devices and interfaces for the PC. Never had the cash or time to do it up, but that would be a really fun project

Yayhon · #9 (**permalink**) 03-22-2003, 08:58 PM

I read somewhere about these cubes that some universities have that a human can fit in and there are monitors on all sides of you and above and below. Some guys converted doom and quake to run on them and they've actually networked the things and had lifesize deathmatches! The guy who did it also said he's starting a private company to bring something similar to arcades and eventually homes.

**Technophile** · #10 (**permalink**) 03-22-2003, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by tekime

I've had a book for years now, on making VR equipment out of LCD's, Nintendo power gloves, even head tracking devices and interfaces for the PC. Never had the cash or time to do it up, but that would be a really fun project

Yeah that would be a fun project! I'd like to explorer VR stuff as a general interface to the computer, as well as for gaming. It would be cool for 3d design or something, just shape blocks of stuff with your hands and then grab em, flip em around, and drop em where you want em. Would be pretty neato. And you could walk around your design and look at it from all angles, even go inside if it was big enough! :wink2: