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Virtual Reality Cocoon Being Designed
gurps_npc writes "CNN reports that a company called 'NAU' is working on an Immersion Cocoon that seems inspired by ST:TNG's Holodeck. The images are only 2D, and you can't touch them. But it is 360-degree video and sound, with light sensors to detect your hand movements and floor sensors to detect foot movements. They hope to have a prototype by October 2009."
What's wrong with real cocoons?
Obviously this is the replacement for the Wii, but what will Nintendo call this one?
So from now on half of the episodes of our lives will take place in one of these pods?
I can't wait to get stuck in a holodeck simulation for 30 - 40 minutes until Brent Spiner fixes the problem spontaneously. The part of the article where Schaedler discusses using the technology shopping online. Imagine that popup no longer showing up in the fixed confines of a computer screen, but being able to completely fudge your 360 degree view screen with a wonderful "Guess what you just won!" tagline. Still, sounds like a great technology for educational purposes, as the article suggests.
My proof:
NAU hopes to complete its prototype Cocoon by October 2009, with models commercially available by 2014. Initially, it's intended to be used in public spaces or to be leased by companies, until the technology becomes cheap enough for the consumer market. But where NAU are creating an escape from the real world, others are working on ways of merging virtual information with the real world.
So this is the second 'article' with no substance.
Does this mean we're now one step closer to virtual reality fps games? So i can take on my friends in Halo, and actually have to run around to do anything instead of just sit on my couch and move my thumbs? rock on! sign me up. i _want_ one...
Will it have a porn, I mean, privacy mode?
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Please let it come with a tissue box holder, a lotion dispenser, and easily washable interior.
lemme guess: we will have it on the market in 5 years, right after the flying cars.
It's a consumer-grade version of this, with an added motion-sensor for walking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Automatic_Virtual_Environment
Yes, this "cocoon" doesn't require the shutter glasses, but that's because it doesn't even try for 3-D. Lame.
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Wierd...
So, of you get hose over in your cocoon, you can cry "au nau"... Or, if you LIKE it in there, say, "Hau nau braun cau"... (LOL)
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Like, cockoon and cockoof?
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. . . a WOD server at the other end.
Hmm?
"Wank On Demand."
You can't see it on the picture but it has a little opening on the side where the food comes from.
I also heard it's designed to project war videos and play Beethoven.
And yes, it will run the new HP Linux.
This is interesting technology, but I'm not sure the examples in the article were thought through all that well.
Imagine Amazon.com being fully 3D. We could walk through a 3D space where you have all the books lined up, and you could walk right up to a book.
That might make sense if you were just browsing, although there are a lot of ways to sift through books which don't map well to inanimate shelves. What if you know which book you want, though? Do you look up the title, author, publisher, etc. in a digital representation of a manual card catalog, and then spend at least a couple minutes walking over to the indicated location? (Just how many books does Amazon sell, anyway? How many miles of shelves would it take to hold them all?) That seems like a lot more work than using the much-derided keyboard & screen we have already.
Virtual shoppers might be able to take books off their shelves and read a sample, or even ask other virtual customers for recommendations.
You can already read samples on a regular screen, and most of the people I know who don't care to read off a 2D computer screen wouldn't be much happier with the immersive 3D equivalent; they want to actually experience the book's weight, texture, and smell. Recommendations, in turn, are more valuable when you can correlate what everyone has said about the item whether or not they happen to be hanging around at that exact moment. In a purely interactive system there probably wouldn't be anyone around to ask most of the time.
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So, not at all like the Holodeck, then?
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Cleaning.
Automated cleaning system would be great, but in absence of that (until scientists create sperm-powered nanobots) a easy-to-clean non-stick surface would be a must.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
You're in one right now!
How do they plan to deal with the issue of... well... farts.
Also... Smoking.
Won't anyone please think of the smokers?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
I'm sure one day there will devices that live up to the hype but for the moment it is difficult to view those two words with anything less than extreme skepticism.
I record my sleeptalking
I can't wait for the Orgasmatron!!!
I'd b impressed if they could just come up with a floor where I could walk/run in any direction and it would keep me in place. Do that, and then we're talking about something.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Like it wasn't bad enough that Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Games took over a lot of peoples lives with regular playing on Monitor. With innovations in this field it is extremely likely the multi-billion dollar gaming industry will take part in a completely virtual video game. MMORPGS and FPS are the most probable i believe but theres room for any genre to have placement.
"Virtual Reality Cocoon Being Designed ... Remains Virtual"
...to out-wit the local android. You have been warned.
Anyone recall the ST:TNG episode where the command crew is put on a holodeck copy of the Enterprise and only Riker figures out something is wrong when he comes "home" to his fav holo-p0rn character as his "wife" ? Assuming the aliens had full access to holo-logs, hmmm. I sense respectable companies not making certain attachments...and less scrupulous ones making them
So they built a fancy CAVE in a shiny plastic sphere. I've wanted to build something like this since it became attainable without a research budget. Just network a few PCs and hook them up to five or six heavily diffused projectors pointed at the outside of a translucent cube. The ultimate innovation would be to let the user walk around on the surface of a giant trackball...
How long before Apple issue a iLawsuit to iCocoon?
~iAC
It's obviously a prototype Blue Pill.
The Matrix is (almost) real.
If it don't GO... chrome it. ~ Frank Banks
Didn't the Venture Brothers already do this one?
There is a company with headquarters in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (just down the road from RIM in one of the few buildings in the area that RIM doesn't own) that has been doing this for many years now.
Check out the public docs at
http://www.christiedigital.com/AMEN/Markets/AdvancedVisualization/
Did you see the opening or closing ceremonies of the Olympics? All of that projection was done with Christie equipment. And their 3D submersive stuff is crazy. They have intentionally stayed away from more consumer stuff, so not many people have heard of them. But anyone in the industry has.
Full disclosure: I'm doing some contract work there right now. But what they are doing is really amazing.
Alluding to another movie...
It shows immersive images of beauty and grandeur, while playing 'light classical' music. And at the end, the food comes OUT of the little opening.
"It's green"
Set in 2022, Edward G. Robinson was 62. Which means his character was born the same year as I was. And that's only 14 years away.
The Immersive Cocoon could revolutionize the way we interact with computers.
Unfortunately, it wont.
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I can't be the only one who misread the title as
Virtual Reality Raccoon Being Designed
You mean like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnidirectional_treadmill ? :)
Don't forget to check out the youtube link from that page. (* If you watch the video, you'll realize it's not perfect yet.)
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/TECH/09/11/immersive.cocoon/art.cocoon1.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2894960128/tt0091064
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Ah, jesss, but will it run Linux^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hhave privacy^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hporn mode?
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I think this sort of display device will put a new perspective on how geeks enjoy their pr0n...virtual reality where the women really are that superficial...
What's a cocoon? Is it another word for a ninigger?
It's only 360-degree? I was hoping for 4pi steradian.
Okay, Iv've been goatse.cx'ed before, but at 5'10@240 lb.'s, even goatse seems too small for me to fit into.
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