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Valve's economist discusses virtual reality contact lenses
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So it does look like a real product, and valve provided some sort of tech demo to work in conjunction with Innovega's AR contact lenses.
It also helps that Innovega is located in bellvue Washington, same area where Valve has their office.
sounds really close to this quotehttp://www.pcgamesn.com/strange-case-valve-economist-and-virtual-reality-contact-lenses said:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=virtual-reality-contact-l&page=2 said:
So it does look like a real product, and valve provided some sort of tech demo to work in conjunction with Innovega's AR contact lenses.
It also helps that Innovega is located in bellvue Washington, same area where Valve has their office.
Anyone who has read Ready Player One, do you feel that the OASIS is just the sort of thing that could pop out of Valve any time now?
They even had the f2p model, with the console (visor and haptic gloves) being less than a dollar but you buy in game items (which they take a cut of) from auctions and in game real estate / transport costs etc...
They even had the f2p model, with the console (visor and haptic gloves) being less than a dollar but you buy in game items (which they take a cut of) from auctions and in game real estate / transport costs etc...
There's no way that this is real tech right now. Ten years from now, if we're playing in VR at all, it will be on an HMD and not contact lenses with screens projected onto them.
This is the dream though. This, or a matrix-esque system where you literally don't know (unless you're one of the unlucky few) that you're in a VR world.
This is the dream though. This, or a matrix-esque system where you literally don't know (unless you're one of the unlucky few) that you're in a VR world.
Fiction has a way of shaping reality. It inspires people, and people are happy to borrow from fiction when it can be reality.
At the same time, fiction is shaped by reality; a lot of the ideas in RP1 aren't new or unique; they're recombinations of other ideas wrapped into a delectable package.
Even in our current state of reality, we already find many threads of technologies and ideas that form the basis for the things that'll happen in RP1.
I mean to a large degree, second life IS Oasis. It's just limited to a single planet, with early 00s graphics, instead of thousands of planets with hyper real graphics.
BlackBanditSho
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Awesome short, but that future actually frightens me. Do NOT want. Rarely ever run away from tech, but burn that with fire.
Why is someone going to draw blood from us?
I realize that other things probably can make the same response occur. I've only experienced it that way though and fffuuuuuuck.
This guy is going to show up at the ER one day, and the doctor is going to yell "YOU PUT WHAT IN YOUR EYE?!"
I am just hoping we get that level of interaction (without all the dystopia stuff), the haptic gloves alone allowing you to feel / interact sound amazing yet plausible, but the full suits with 360 treadmills? Yikes.
The OASIS / Second life thing struck me as well, but the novel does point out that the reason the OASIS worked was mainly the immersive interface (along with zettabyte size servers etc...)
endresults
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Looks like this tech is going to show up at CES. Equivalent to watching a 240" screen from 10ft away? This is going to change the world. Oculus Rift has nothing on this and pretty soon everyone in the world will be usi---
Is that.... 640x480?
Edit: well, looks like I found a banned site.
Is that.... 640x480?
Edit: well, looks like I found a banned site.
NotMyRealName
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I was expecting him to reveal the secrets to seeing our reptilian overlords.