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Nope, not another sad moon landing conspiracy theory topic, something else.
Earlier this week reserachers in America and the UK shook hands, over the internet. Anyone who missed this cna check it out here;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2371103.stm
Why is this a big deal ? Well, for starters, they could feel the kind of item they were holiding, and the other person's actions as well, all via force feedback. Although this time it was simply the researcher's hands being represent by a green square, and the item a simple 3D cube, the potential to change the internet is there, waiting to be unlocked.
Think about it ? Our own world is only real to us partly because we can touch, and feel, things around us, and because of what we see.
Imagine using this system, massively developed, and with some kind of headset that blocks out the real world and only allows you to see the virtual reality world created online. If you can touch, and feel things in that world, speak to other people in that world, and do things, then thats a massive leap forward. Who'd want to type when they could interact and speak like in the real world, with other people ?
Of course, you'd be able to use skins, like people do for online First Person Shooter games, because somehow imaging individual people into a system would be expensive - although BT demonstrated this in the Millennium Dome exhibition with good success.
It'd work for all sites, imagine being able to interact like this, or even on normal web pages it could be astounding. For Special Reserve the site could be a virtual shop, with items to buy, you'd be able to visually see whether something was in stock, and see virtual posters for offers e.t.c. Again, Virtual shopping mall's have alreay been created and tried in America but are slow and undetailed.
This kind of system is years away, but with Broadband, faster processors, and money, this simple handshake could be the dawn of something great.
~~Belldandy~~
Earlier this week reserachers in America and the UK shook hands, over the internet. Anyone who missed this cna check it out here;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2371103.stm
Why is this a big deal ? Well, for starters, they could feel the kind of item they were holiding, and the other person's actions as well, all via force feedback. Although this time it was simply the researcher's hands being represent by a green square, and the item a simple 3D cube, the potential to change the internet is there, waiting to be unlocked.
Think about it ? Our own world is only real to us partly because we can touch, and feel, things around us, and because of what we see.
Imagine using this system, massively developed, and with some kind of headset that blocks out the real world and only allows you to see the virtual reality world created online. If you can touch, and feel things in that world, speak to other people in that world, and do things, then thats a massive leap forward. Who'd want to type when they could interact and speak like in the real world, with other people ?
Of course, you'd be able to use skins, like people do for online First Person Shooter games, because somehow imaging individual people into a system would be expensive - although BT demonstrated this in the Millennium Dome exhibition with good success.
It'd work for all sites, imagine being able to interact like this, or even on normal web pages it could be astounding. For Special Reserve the site could be a virtual shop, with items to buy, you'd be able to visually see whether something was in stock, and see virtual posters for offers e.t.c. Again, Virtual shopping mall's have alreay been created and tried in America but are slow and undetailed.
This kind of system is years away, but with Broadband, faster processors, and money, this simple handshake could be the dawn of something great.
~~Belldandy~~
I estimate about 80 years before this technology is used for games.
it's deffinatly exciting to see what could potentially be a huge advancment in computer interaction technology. playing games comes to mind (natch) when thinking about how fun it could be to manipulate objects like in the FPS/RPG games but i doubt many people would be up for the feeling of being shot in the head with a rail-gun :/
good post though, interesting :D
good post though, interesting :D
Nope, not another sad moon landing conspiracy theory topic, something else.
Earlier this week reserachers in America and the UK shook hands, over the internet. Anyone who missed this cna check it out here;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2371103.stm
Why is this a big deal ? Well, for starters, they could feel the kind of item they were holiding, and the other person's actions as well, all via force feedback. Although this time it was simply the researcher's hands being represent by a green square, and the item a simple 3D cube, the potential to change the internet is there, waiting to be unlocked.
Think about it ? Our own world is only real to us partly because we can touch, and feel, things around us, and because of what we see.
Imagine using this system, massively developed, and with some kind of headset that blocks out the real world and only allows you to see the virtual reality world created online. If you can touch, and feel things in that world, speak to other people in that world, and do things, then thats a massive leap forward. Who'd want to type when they could interact and speak like in the real world, with other people ?
Of course, you'd be able to use skins, like people do for online First Person Shooter games, because somehow imaging individual people into a system would be expensive - although BT demonstrated this in the Millennium Dome exhibition with good success.
It'd work for all sites, imagine being able to interact like this, or even on normal web pages it could be astounding. For Special Reserve the site could be a virtual shop, with items to buy, you'd be able to visually see whether something was in stock, and see virtual posters for offers e.t.c. Again, Virtual shopping mall's have alreay been created and tried in America but are slow and undetailed.
This kind of system is years away, but with Broadband, faster processors, and money, this simple handshake could be the dawn of something great.
~~Belldandy~~
Earlier this week reserachers in America and the UK shook hands, over the internet. Anyone who missed this cna check it out here;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2371103.stm
Why is this a big deal ? Well, for starters, they could feel the kind of item they were holiding, and the other person's actions as well, all via force feedback. Although this time it was simply the researcher's hands being represent by a green square, and the item a simple 3D cube, the potential to change the internet is there, waiting to be unlocked.
Think about it ? Our own world is only real to us partly because we can touch, and feel, things around us, and because of what we see.
Imagine using this system, massively developed, and with some kind of headset that blocks out the real world and only allows you to see the virtual reality world created online. If you can touch, and feel things in that world, speak to other people in that world, and do things, then thats a massive leap forward. Who'd want to type when they could interact and speak like in the real world, with other people ?
Of course, you'd be able to use skins, like people do for online First Person Shooter games, because somehow imaging individual people into a system would be expensive - although BT demonstrated this in the Millennium Dome exhibition with good success.
It'd work for all sites, imagine being able to interact like this, or even on normal web pages it could be astounding. For Special Reserve the site could be a virtual shop, with items to buy, you'd be able to visually see whether something was in stock, and see virtual posters for offers e.t.c. Again, Virtual shopping mall's have alreay been created and tried in America but are slow and undetailed.
This kind of system is years away, but with Broadband, faster processors, and money, this simple handshake could be the dawn of something great.
~~Belldandy~~