Hello, I'm a new member to this forum. My online handle is Yuriko, and I'm an aspiring game developer. I've been interested in virtual reality since I was a kid, but I haven't seriously looked into it until recently. Upon looking into the history of VR and its current developments, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed. To put it bluntly, I don't think we've reached the level of technology we should have by this point. Humans have always improved and adapted ourselves and our technology at an astounding rate. Within just 40 years, we went from introducing the concept of silent movies, to putting a man on our moon. And not even 5 years after that, we had the first prototype of the internet. Now let's look at our modern life of 2018. The birth of commercial virtual reality was about 6 years ago back in 2012, with few improvements or developments since. Compared to the rate our other technological creations from the past 10 years evolved, I think it's safe to say that VR is our slowest moving field of tech study. I think this comes, at least in part, from a lack of public interest. The majority doesn't care about virtual reality. The price, the concept, the experimental nature, there's any number of reasons as to why people are put off to it. I want to change this. In order to get peoples' attention and to get the industry moving, there needs to be a breakthrough to jump-start the process. I want to be the person to create this breakthrough.
I've been looking into different ways that VR can be applied to the real world and how it could affect our society. I want to find a way to link VR directly to your brain. If I can find a way to emulate the senses through electrical pulses and simulated nerve feedback, then there's no telling what we could accomplish with it! We could use it to shut off pain sensors for things like surgery. We could use VR to rehabilitate the physically disabled. We could restore lost senses by sending signals to certain parts of the brain. Games would be more realistic than ever. We've got great templates to work off of with the Oculus and Vive, all we'd need to do is work out how we can improve those things further. There's no limit to the things we could do with the technology!
Yeah, the problem is actually pulling it off... This "full-dive" system would require a lot of money, resources, and experimentation. We'd need to set up a proper Neural Connection Interface that could change itself and adapt to each individual person while also keeping track of all the people logged into it. That's at least a few million once this hits the market. Whatever we used would need a lot of processing power. We'd also need to find people willing to host and run experiments, as well as people willing to be guinea pigs for those experiments. But if we could find the money and the manpower, think of it! How many people can say that they built a VR experience that could replace the internet? On a tech forum of all places? I know what I'm saying sounds outlandish, maybe even impossible. But I still want to try. I want to see virtual reality become a part of everyday life. I want to see this field reach its full potential within my lifetime. But I can't do it alone. Please, I'm not asking you to donate money or whatever. All I need from you is info. I'm still very inexperienced as a creator, so any information you guys have on this kind of tech would be greatly appreciated. Hardware specs, software rundowns, anything that can help me better understand how and why VR works, and how it can improve.
I've been looking into different ways that VR can be applied to the real world and how it could affect our society. I want to find a way to link VR directly to your brain. If I can find a way to emulate the senses through electrical pulses and simulated nerve feedback, then there's no telling what we could accomplish with it! We could use it to shut off pain sensors for things like surgery. We could use VR to rehabilitate the physically disabled. We could restore lost senses by sending signals to certain parts of the brain. Games would be more realistic than ever. We've got great templates to work off of with the Oculus and Vive, all we'd need to do is work out how we can improve those things further. There's no limit to the things we could do with the technology!
Yeah, the problem is actually pulling it off... This "full-dive" system would require a lot of money, resources, and experimentation. We'd need to set up a proper Neural Connection Interface that could change itself and adapt to each individual person while also keeping track of all the people logged into it. That's at least a few million once this hits the market. Whatever we used would need a lot of processing power. We'd also need to find people willing to host and run experiments, as well as people willing to be guinea pigs for those experiments. But if we could find the money and the manpower, think of it! How many people can say that they built a VR experience that could replace the internet? On a tech forum of all places? I know what I'm saying sounds outlandish, maybe even impossible. But I still want to try. I want to see virtual reality become a part of everyday life. I want to see this field reach its full potential within my lifetime. But I can't do it alone. Please, I'm not asking you to donate money or whatever. All I need from you is info. I'm still very inexperienced as a creator, so any information you guys have on this kind of tech would be greatly appreciated. Hardware specs, software rundowns, anything that can help me better understand how and why VR works, and how it can improve.
