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Remember in the early 90's when suddenly everyone was trying to get some sort of Virtual Reality thing off the ground, but failed. How long till someone gets it right and makes in affordable to have in the home? How long till the Sonys, Microsofts, and the Nintendos of the world make the Next Generation Virtual Reality machine thats not a Red and Black screen and can damage your eyes?
Hopefully and most likely, never.
Praise the lord.
Preach the word, brother padman.
the last thing i need is to strap on one of those stupid helmets, for an enchanted quest through lego-land in the privacy of my own home...
Virtual Reality used to be the shit, back before anyone got to try it.
Then everyone realized how stupid it was.
Now, nobody cares anymore.
The helmet and gloves schtick will be bypassed in favour of direct neuro input. Turns out it is surprisingly easy to fool the nervous system into feeling things that are not actually happening. Likewise, I expect you will be able to get an operation to have a jack implanted in the side of your head for direct video feed to the optic nerve within the next 20 years. It will happen before that, but that is about how long it will take for it to become mainstream and relatively inexpensive.
Wow, there's some closed-mindedness in this thread. Just because '90's VR was blocky and shitty doesn't mean future VR won't look and play a million times better. I'm sure many people looked at Pong and thought it was a lame fad that would never go anywhere.
I think that about wraps it up for this thread :)
Oh, and VR is stupid
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Originally posted by padman
Hopefully and most likely, never.
Praise the lord.
Neo: I don't think people are being closed-minded at all. The point is that the "powers that be" have obviously realized that they shouldn't bother trying to market the concept to be in every home just for the sake of providing entertainment.
I think the only thing I hated about the whole "virtual" craze was when you had a number of games during this era playing up the theme and not being a real, well - you know. *thinks of Virtua Racing* :p
Dammit people! Think of the possibilites!
For the last week I've been tossing around some way to get Rez into some 3D glasses while being controlled by VR gloves... God that would be cool...
I don't see how you people can think that Virtual Reality would be dumb? Thats the whole goal with video games in the first place. To be something else, in a different world, doing things you can't in the real world. Why would it be so horrid to actually be there? Actually feel like you are holding the gun thats pointing at the advning creature? Seems to me this is whats going to happan in like 30 years. And no one has tried VR since the early 90's, so of course they could not do better in the future.
VR would kick ass if done right! In fact, VR done wrong (Virtual Boy) still kicks ass! I wish a company would take advantage of the power of XB2, PS3, and Apple X (of course, the new 3rd wheel company in the industry, to take MS's place after they take a undisputable 2nd after Nintendo goes 3rd Party... I'm psychic, trust me!) and give us da' goggles, but not shitty goggles, ones with HDTV resolution, and games actually programmed to take up our whole feild of vision with them, like racers and mech games esp!
Oh, so you want to do it in public? I'm sure that could be arranged.Quote:
Originally posted by Videodrone
the last thing i need is to strap on one of those stupid helmets, for an enchanted quest through lego-land in the privacy of my own home...
I think the last I heard of headset type techonlogy were the Glasstron(?)glasses from Sony. Priced at about $500, there were a pair of television glasses simulating a gigantic TV right in front of your eyes, I think you could play games with it, not sure though. I'd certainly like to give Daytona USA in first-person view a try on that though. ;)
The Virtual Boy kicked all your asses, admit it.
There are so many reasons why VR is bad.
First of all having video screens that close to your eyes is a big no no.
As much as people like to get emerging into a game, film or book surely they want to know whats going on around them. Not being able to see or hear because your wearing a VR helmet for a long stretch of time could be bloody dangerous.
It will never take off and be glad it doesn't.
This is actually why I moved into my duplex's attic. Up here, I can play videogames loud as hell and can't hear the phone or doorbell. There's also no visible clock (unless I walk over to my puter and stare at the corner, but that clock is wrong anyway), so I have no clue what time it is, and that makes me happy.Quote:
As much as people like to get emerging into a game, film or book surely they want to know whats going on around them. Not being able to see or hear because your wearing a VR helmet for a long stretch of time could be bloody dangerous.
To be able to lose all outside influence and immerse completely, that is exactly what I love to do while reading, watching movies, or playing games.
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Originally posted by padman
As much as people like to get emerging into a game, film or book surely they want to know whats going on around them.
Nope.
The Matrix has you.....
It will be 2 yrs 5 mo 45 sec from today.
You would be a sitting duck for any burglers or bum burglers and the pranks that would be pulled on you in your oblivious state would be endless. Its just super freaky.
Like I said it'll never take off unless someone makes some sort of girating vibro cock attachment for the hentai dating sims fans.
Thing is, everything worth stealing is now right in front of me, which is right next to my bedroom, and the attic gets locked whenever I'm away or going to bed. People have stolen stuff from me before (but it was all while I was away), and they could do it again, but I'm too sensitive to outside noise and stimulation for people to even open the door downstairs without me knowing, no matter how engrossed I am in what I'm doing. Hence why I like it up here.Quote:
You would be a sitting duck for any burglers or bum burglers and the pranks that would be pulled on you in your oblivious state would be endless.
Don't they already have something similar?Quote:
Like I said it'll never take off unless someone makes some sort of girating vibro cock attachment for the hentai dating sims fans.
I've invented a way to play VR in my own home. Sit really close to the tv screen.
*Imports smileys from Neomega*
VR via a helmet/goggles and gloves: http://www.neomega.net/board/images/.../smiley/13.gif
VR via some sort of Holo-Deck: http://www.neomega.net/board/images/openbb/smiley/4.gif
*ahem*
Hell yeah. I was thinking a holo-deck type deal would be the only way this would work out. Arcade only I'd imagine, but that doesn't matter~
If the holodeck is ever invented it will bring about the downfall of soceity.
No one will ever want to come out.