12th April 2016, 6:09 AM
So the Oculus is just a headset you jam on your head while sitting in a chair. Moving my head around just as a camera thing seems pretty gimicky, especially since I can't look behind myself without turning my chair around, getting the cable on my controller spun around myself in the process.
The Vive is a lot more like what people think actual VR should be, since you're getting up and actually moving your own body. However, I think ultimately this will demonstrate just how ill-conceived that idea has always been. It's just too easy to injure yourself, and as you say it would require having a big empty and above-all "safe" space to play with it in.
ABF, these are frickin' TVs strapped to your head! This is nothing like your sci-fi distopias. You're picturing scenarios this tech can't possibly lead to. Video game addiction was already a thing long before you could stick the camera right up to your eye, so I really don't think this is changing anything.
Getting tech in our brains seems like the best thing that could happen to humanity, but sometimes I do fear what might happen to such a device if it actually COULD be attacked remotely, namely what could be done with it in the hands of a true psychopath. I don't think we should avoid it because of that, but if even one person experiences a literal eternity of hell due to that tech, that's way too much, so it's a problem that'll need to be solved.
The Vive is a lot more like what people think actual VR should be, since you're getting up and actually moving your own body. However, I think ultimately this will demonstrate just how ill-conceived that idea has always been. It's just too easy to injure yourself, and as you say it would require having a big empty and above-all "safe" space to play with it in.
ABF, these are frickin' TVs strapped to your head! This is nothing like your sci-fi distopias. You're picturing scenarios this tech can't possibly lead to. Video game addiction was already a thing long before you could stick the camera right up to your eye, so I really don't think this is changing anything.
Getting tech in our brains seems like the best thing that could happen to humanity, but sometimes I do fear what might happen to such a device if it actually COULD be attacked remotely, namely what could be done with it in the hands of a true psychopath. I don't think we should avoid it because of that, but if even one person experiences a literal eternity of hell due to that tech, that's way too much, so it's a problem that'll need to be solved.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)