General Music Chat

You will no longer watch a show/video as a spectator. You will experience it as if you jumped through and into the screen. In your case, it will put the viewer in the middle of hungry zombies. So instead of seeing them on a screen, your viewer will be trying to run.

I'm thinking you'll have to have ambulances on site for those who go into shock or have heart attacks.

The best usages for it currently are:

education
tourism
sports/entertainment/games
shopping
communication


I'd advise you to look at what Forbes or Wall Street Journal is saying about VR/AR, if you're trying to figure out how it will apply to everything. from now on.

Ted, and all interested parties, this is an article out of Whole Earth Review about VR from 1990 I think?, maybe you all can use a zoom apparatus to read if any interest..

I can see it being big for gamers. And the porn crowd. But for a concert? meh ....

I can see it being big for gamers. And the porn crowd. But for a concert? meh ....

Must admit I'm a bit surprised at the lack of imagination from the forum.

As much as I explain it before I give someone a VR headset, they think they know what they're going to experience ...but they never really do. Almost every person is absolutely blown away by how real the experience is for them. Half-dozen people tell me it's the most amazing thing they've seen in their entire lives. I wouldn't go quite that far...but it's more amazing than you guys can imagine yet.

You already judge what is reality according to what you see, mostly. If your vision is completely filled, and the picture moves naturally with your body, your brain tells you that you're standing there. You are transported to another place.

Some of the hardware is meant to give you an example of virtual reality for a cheap price, like the Cardboards or the Goggletech glasses I carry for sale. But the high-quality HMD (Head Mounted Devices) are in 4k high-def that will astound you with how real it really seems.

With the virtual body pieces to go along with it, a doctor on earth could operate on a person in a spaceship circling Mars. There are soooo many ways this technology is waiting to be used that it is a new frontier without rules yet.

Only limited by our imagination....


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Those foolish, unimaginative, Luddites!

And the horse owners said that driving in a car too fast would make your head fly off....


Oh look....you can finally find out what it's like to have a gig

https://infinityleap.com/virtual-realit ... ulus-rift/




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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/luna ... everyone#/

This is a cool little camera...too bad it won't be available before Oct 2016

I can see it being big for gamers. And the porn crowd. But for a concert? meh ....

Must admit I'm a bit surprised at the lack of imagination from the forum.

As much as I explain it before I give someone a VR headset, they think they know what they're going to experience ...but they never really do. Almost every person is absolutely blown away by how real the experience is for them. Half-dozen people tell me it's the most amazing thing they've seen in their entire lives. I wouldn't go quite that far...but it's more amazing than you guys can imagine yet.

You already judge what is reality according to what you see, mostly. If your vision is completely filled, and the picture moves naturally with your body, your brain tells you that you're standing there. You are transported to another place.

Some of the hardware is meant to give you an example of virtual reality for a cheap price, like the Cardboards or the Goggletech glasses I carry for sale. But the high-quality HMD (Head Mounted Devices) are in 4k high-def that will astound you with how real it really seems.

With the virtual body pieces to go along with it, a doctor on earth could operate on a person in a spaceship circling Mars. There are soooo many ways this technology is waiting to be used that it is a new frontier without rules yet.

Only limited by our imagination....


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Oh, I get the visual part of it. You know that a live show is a LOT more than the visuals. Its the sound of the band, the sound of the venue, the sounds of the other spectators, the feedback that the band receives FROM the audience ...
What you're describing is watching a show on a 360 degree tv screen (that happens to be housed in a headset).

Its the sound of the band, the sound of the venue, the sounds of the other spectators, the feedback that the band receives FROM the audience ...

360 VR is bringing some major advancements in audio recording also, so that's not true. In VR, the audio works more like natural hearing than any other platform you could mention. As you turn your head, the audio changes naturally just like it does when you turn your head in any room. There is audio tech to "zoom in" on a sound by looking in the direction it's coming from.

You would get the sound of the venue and other spectators in the venue, unless the sound person decides otherwise, and it's not impossible for the band to see any viewers who have their own VR camera set up.

What you're describing is watching a show on a 360 degree tv screen (that happens to be housed in a headset).

uh....no. Not even close to watching a tv show. Closer to time travel.

Like I said in that same post, no matter how much I describe it in advance, people think they understand but they really don't. You can't imagine what I'm describing because you haven't experienced anything like it....ever.

VR is the technology. A headset is only how the technology will be delivered for a short time in the immediate future, but the technology won't be limited to that medium for long.

What is pretend? I don't think you understand yet. You will be experiencing the real world...without actually standing at the place you're visiting. You will be able to interact as if you are there. Hence the word "virtual", but most content will be actual reality.

And it's not tryng to replace the human experience. If anything, it is about enhancing the human experience by creating connection and community of like-minded people all over the world so it doesn't matter if you live in Bumfart or Shanghai. You can be anywhere you want to be. You have become Avatar.

Plus, you aren't "watching" a show, you are a participant in the action; and most VR systems won't have wires, so that's a non-issue.

Games and other developers are creating technology to make your experience as real as life. In the beginning there will be wires and limitations, but don't expect that to last long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yplHQh ... freload=10

Within a decade (likely much faster) you won't go even a day without visiting the matrix for something.