VR - Warning! - Adult content ahead

[Darkwood]

Little offends or upsets me even electrocutions in Turkish swimming pools. I just felt the chosen subject matter was inappropriate, yes I have heard of the ---- Oscars not quite sure what they are awarded for certainly not acting but then again if the Hollywood Oscars were only handed out for good acting it would be a short ceremony.

Your concerns are not just reserved to yourself, I did bring it up in the staff room regarding the subject matter and was going to post in the Arms only out of public eyes but we have a larger audience here and if discussed maturely and it is monitored correctly I felt it like any subject, it shouldn't be off limits as it is one of the biggest industries out there and it is now mixing with, what is in concept, going to be the future of technology and everyday life.
We have in the past talked about Politics, Islam, Homophobia all of which may not sit well with everyone and can generate some very strong opinions and like this subject it requires monitoring but given it's my thread it will indeed by watched carefully, we are not discussing any real ---- content, putting links or pics up we are only relating to it because at the moment its the most immersive experience I have found out there and blows all the other content across the gaming world and Youtube out of the water for realism.

 

[The Ghost]

I like the idea of house viewing via VR. I am sure there are many applications. In Bristol we have this fab scheme called Yobike. People download the app register and get to ride the many yellow bikes around the city. Sadly already it is being abused. Bikes are being vandalised, chucked in rivers and people are "keeping the bikes safe" by hiding them in their house. Here you have a good thing and it is already being abused. Human nature is such that it will use any good thing and turn it to poor account. I fear the same will happen and will be sold as a good thing but soon turn into something bad.

 

[Darkwood]

I like the idea of house viewing via VR. I am sure there are many applications. In Bristol we have this fab scheme called Yobike. People download the app register and get to ride the many yellow bikes around the city. Sadly already it is being abused. Bikes are being vandalised, chucked in rivers and people are "keeping the bikes safe" by hiding them in their house. Here you have a good thing and it is already being abused. Human nature is such that it will use any good thing and turn it to poor account. I fear the same will happen and will be sold as a good thing but soon turn into something bad.

I understand your concerns and also why the bikes are been abused and vandalised as is human nature but VR is not in essence rented or borrowed property that is subject to abuse, you the end user will own your own equipment and you will just plug into the internet and use as you wish, where the commercial/industrial industries use the tech and show potential customers their products etc through VR then they will be there to supervise the use of them so I cannot see the concern you bring up been realised, sitting at home with your own expensive equipment watching a live football game from a front row view and having the ability to change seats to suit at half time is already out there and been used, its only draw back is the publics slow uptake and having to catch up with the technology due to cost and its relative infancy in technology.

 

[The Ghost]

so I cannot see the concern you bring up been realised

They are realised in your own use of the technology.

 

[Squid]

Wheres the Readers Wives thread?

 

[westward10]

Mmm I am tempted now never realised I would be able to see Jedward in concert.

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

Darky...you're 2 or 3 posts away from asking us to go doggin' with you

...which is fine,as long as i can wear me jaja binks mask...

you won't need to go with him, just get him to film it and you can watch it as if really there with your new vr headsset....

 

[Marvo]

Alas, with my internet speeds I'm limited to 2D lo-res ----.

You say the ---- industry is putting big bucks into it but isn't the VR technology a spin off from the gaming industry?

 

[Squid]

Alas, with my internet speeds I'm limited to 2D lo-res ----.

You say the ---- industry is putting big bucks into it but isn't the VR technology a spin off from the gaming industry?

The ---- industry invested a lot over the years in to high speed streaming, cam technology but the main technology they pushed was pay per view and and online payments system as well as spam and peer to peer networks.

 

[Doomed]

The ---- industry swayed the betamax / VHS wars, the ---- industry accelerated the DVD production market, the ---- industry fueled early internet development, so I'm not surprised its into VR

 

[NorCley]

Wow, I didn't know that VR could be used for that

 

[Moley]

The only VR I've seen so far has been at a site induction for a power station. I found it interesting (if you can class an induction as interesting!) in the way you could look around as if you were there but I also found it a bit disorientating. Some people found they felt sick watching it. That wasn't top quality kit though. The thought of 3D ---- does sound a lot more interesting than a site induction

 

[Darkwood]

It is an infant technology, when you get your own headset like a PSVR for example, you have to set it up to your particular field view IE the distance between your pupils, not doing this or getting it wrong can cause eye strain and blurry image etc.
The issue with first experience VR's is whether you are stationary in the VR world or moving, where you move yourself or the VR has you in some sort of motion it can become extremely disorientating as your head sees one thing but your body perceives the exact opposite.
I dived into a VR space shooter game for a few hours when I first got it, it was really amazing, like been inside an X-wing and flying it for real, after removing the headset I felt sick and dizzy for several hours as I had just told my brain of 40yrs life experience it was thinking totally wrong about how I experience reality.
This is though a temporary effect, you quickly build a resistance to it and thus it no longer effects you but having said that, if the software is poor or the stream juttery and/or if it moves you around too fast in the VR it can give you a temporary ill feeling but the industry is waking up to this and realising where the limits are the more that users join the tech and the more feedback they receive.

How the mind actually works can be used to an advantage especially in VR games or special effects in VR, seeing a floating cgi image move at you like say a sign then it what seem like it passes through you it give you some very weird sensations, you can feel the object pass through you in like a imaginary pressure going through your chest, even seeing a knife plunged into your hand can for some people give then a phantom pain.

 

[Moley]

If seeing a knife in your hand could give some people phantom pain could it lead to much worse ? If someone gets killed in the game and the VR experience was so real could it lead to death? I would imagine VR ---- could lead to something else - hmmmmm I really must get myself one of these 3d things

 

[Darkwood]