Good afternoon Mortals! Is your boring world still running in one piece? OR do u want to runaway from this hopeless dairly routine and find something that stimulates your neeeeeerrrrrve???????
Well I understand. I know all about you Mortals. Thats why I brought a post about virtual reality!!!!!!
Virtual reality is a fake reality created by geniouses.
It is a digital world that surrounds you once you are in. The device fools your brain to confuse that you are actually warped from one place to another, providing a brand new reality that can do whatever you want, unlike the reality where most of us are just common Mortals.
Doesn't it sound wonderful? To have a reality that replaces our world? Why take chances and risks to change our world when we can just create our world in a small goggle?
Virtual Reality, in short VR is the next trend of generation, well just like all the others I've posted. Many engineers are looking forward to use this technology in various fields, in gaming, sports, training, or even doctor's surgery simulation which no one has to die even if the doctor fails.
Today, I want to show you several devices we currently have on VR. Yet VR is not fully completed, but even what we have already can surprise you from your toe. HAHA
Well lets start from gaming. This device is called the 'Oculus Rift' a closest thing we have to the VR. So far when we play games, we had to see through the 2D monitor in front of us through our characters even if the game is in first-person view. But with this beauty, you can actually get 'into' the world and look around just like a character. Literally speaking, if you move ur head and look back when the character is facing against a castle, you WILL see a castle right behind you. If your character falls from a high position, you will feel all those dizziness, fear, reality that a real person falling.(Of course not the air pressure and you won't die even if your character splash into pieces)
There are already many videos of the Youtubers who are amazed with Oculus Rift. They ride roller coasters, play scary games, explore deep oceans without oxygen mask, sail pacific ocean with a small piece of wooden boat with a radio on. Let me give you few of them and you can also find more if you r interested. Just type in Oculus Rift on Youtube.
Oculus Rift is currently undergoing final testing before commercial release which kills people like me who are eager to buy one and be a couch potato. Maybe those engineers are actually helping me to live a normal life. But you can still buy the testing version in somewhere but not in Korea. Im not really sure about that info.
The next one I want to talk about is a simulation technology introduce by Stephan Hawking. This program is called Stephan Hawking's future science or future technology. They are all in Youtube, go check it out if you want to see all 6 episodes of them. What I want to show you is the first episode, which is about the VR.
As you see in the video, the woman goes to some military base where soldiers train hostage simulation situations. Although a little shoddy, this is very similar to what we saw in SF movies. They gather around in a large area where simulation is going to take place, and attach some sensors that creates virtual avatar of themselves. Then they start training the hostage situation in full surrounding, no one has to die or be killed.
Of course I just said its shoddy. For now, it would be better to just use paint guns with real humans acting their roles. But look at the far sight, what if this evolves into something more real? Some time that day will come and we will all agree that it is more efficient than using real human actors.
You think just looking things in VR and moving ur avatar with control pad is still somewhat lacking? Well this one is called the 'VR treadmill'. As you can see the guy can move around with a virtual gun with Oculus Rift. He can run, jump, crouch, pretty much do anything a character do on that treadmill. The thing will fix him safly on the platform. Although I'm not sure how they can crawl though. Maybe someone clever will find a way.
OK that's all I've got in today's post. Hope u guys enjoyed this technology. I know some people hate things like smartphones that destroys all the analogue cultures we had with real people, and this is something even more than a smartphone. It's VIRTUAL REALITY!!!
But we have to admit that it will be a part of dominating culture in the future. Well it is pretty much interesting right?
Always don't forget the magic 4S Mortals
Stay Safe and Stay Scientific
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Images from Google Image
Information from a book 'Future of Human'
http://www.aladin.co.kr/shop/wproduct.aspx?ISBN=8988165853
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