WIRED: Virtual reality can make you feel like you’re high atop the Wall in Westeros, flying like a bird, or running from an alien intent on killing you, but to everyone else, you look like a spaz flailing about in high-tech ski googles. This makes demonstrating a head-mounted display like the Oculus Rift difficult in a group setting. You can set up a monitor that displays what you’re seeing, but the result is an underwhelming pair of screenshots. Hardly the immersive experience VR promises.
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I applaud Pixar for the great strides they have made in working on this project, but I have really strong opinions on virtual reality. At it’s core virtual reality is meant to create a space of which anything is possible and your feel as though you are somewhere where you are not. And in order to create an environment true to this definition is infinitely more complicated than just creating realistic looking and sounding holograms in a room. To be able to create the same sense of a world that designers are always brainstorming about. There are far too many limitations of realization based on the current technology available to us. The fastest way to be able to access the virtual reality would be to access a person subconscious. With the current limitation of downloading the world into a person’s dream reality, a person’s dream state is the best possible place. It offers the ability of not having to create anything escape access to a personals mind and letting it down load because when we dream we are actively believing that the dream is real for the most part. The best part is that are body is paralyzed so there is no worry of not having enough physical space to maintain the world around them.
I have never personally used a augmented reality helmet, but the idea of one as a videogame crazed kid has always excited me. What could be better than being fully immersed in a world that you’d otherwise never have access to? To me it always seemed like the gateway to greater exploration and more fun. This idea of virtual reality stuck with me for a while until I got older and augmented reality became a real thing, and it quickly picked up a reputation of being a piece of equipment for loner no-life computer gamers to only further bar themselves from the real world. While I don’t judge books by their covers, this reputation made me not really want to explore the idea of virtual reality any longer. I’m happy to say that this project might offer a resolve to augmented reality’s bad reputation. With a sleek well-designed projector, the amazing world of virtual reality might loose its poor rep with an opportunity to introduce an audience. No this isn’t the most groundbreaking thing ever, and I think augmented reality has a long way to go before it looses its reputation of being primarily for super gaming nerds, but this new projector makes an important effort to change perspectives by giving bystanders a peak under the helmet.
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