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Student Uses Oculus Rift and Kinect To Create Body Swap Illusion
kkleiner writes Using an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, Microsoft Kinect, a camera, and a handful of electrical stimulators, a London student's virtual reality system is showing users what it's like to swap bodies. Looking down, they see someone else's arms and legs; looking out, it's someone else's point of view; and when they move their limbs, the body they see does the same (those electrical stimulators mildly shock muscles to force a friend to mirror the user's movements). It's an imperfect system, but a fascinating example of the power of virtual reality. What else might we use VR systems for? Perhaps they'll prove useful in training or therapeutic situations? Or what about with robots, which would be easier to inhabit and control than another human? The virtual body swap may never fully catch on, but generally, virtual reality will likely prove useful for more than just gaming and entertainment.
I would never leave the house.
Homeless people would be cheaper than robots.
a long, long time ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
So when will people sell Technovoodoo service?
Not a new idea. Only they didn't use Kinect or electrical stimulators, so they just relied on the partners' willingness to mirror each other's movements.
Cool movie :) Strange Days
They were using the Oculus rift to look down at genitals of swapped bodies when it first came out fools.
http://gizmodo.com/oculus-rift-lets-you-see-what-it-would-be-like-to-swap-1505973834
Conversely, maybe we can now take snide, fucking smart-alecks and swap them into the body of a lardass so they can experience the humiliation and despair of being obese, so people like you can have a little more empathy for the human condition.
Meanwhile, every tranny on earth just got serious wood thinking about the potential of this technology.
If this were Usenet, I'd killfile the lot of you.
Gender-swap porn just got a lot more interesting.
I'm just saying.
Then you might want to show some fucking empathy. No one is going to think you used such harsh language because you used to feel that way about yourself, they're going to think you're just a dumb, judgmental prick.
The word you are looking for is Waldo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
Silence is a state of mime.
Right? And we can swap white people with black people so the can see what thats like, and men with women and so on, this of the sensitivity training potential!!!
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You sound like an ex smoker who never shuts up about how bad smoking is... here is a clue, we are happy you didnt something to better yourself, but shut the fuck up, and stop acting like a smug prick just because you bettered yourself and think anyone else who doesnt is a lazy sack of shit
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Double post. Be fat. Lose fucking weight. And listen to all your fat friends bemoan that you are on a diet and that you aren't 'fat' because you now aren't as big of lard ass as they are. "If anyone should be losing weight it should be me." Is what they say to you as you sit there, still grossly overweight but have lost a few lbs.
The fat community does nothing but road block people trying to lose weight. So fuck them. They sit there with a poor me complex and rail against anyone actively doing something about their weight. It shows to them that they too can lose weight and they want nothing to do with it. So no. I took shit for being fat. Then I took shit for losing weight.
Anyone that has actually done this can certainly understand why I hate fat asses.
"Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin." --Teddy Roosevelt
Why do I^Hyou have the feeling that ''Showing" what it's like to swap bodies doesn't quite cut it?
Driven people will never be stopped by race in America today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
"Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin." --Teddy Roosevelt
It sounded really cool until it got to the part where they "mildly shock."
Every person is different, not everyone cares if.they have a few pounds on, other people care are fashon, while.others dont give a flying fuck. Generally people who had a "problem" and fixed it do one of two things, move on with their lives, or become so obsessed with the fact that they beat their "problem" that they spend their entire lives telling everyone.how wrong they are
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I've watched
Clearly you know what's going on then. /sarcasm
"Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin." --Teddy Roosevelt
Also you act like fat people just keep to themselves. They don't. They aren't. They take up 2 seats + seats on airplanes for instance. They also have a fat acceptance movement going on.
if.they have a few pounds on
I'm not talking about a few lbs overweight. But unfortunately, when you say a few lbs, in todays terms, you now mean obese people. Not people that literally have 2-5 lbs to lose.
"Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin." --Teddy Roosevelt
Calorie in Calorie out.
That's not how it works. Celery has calories (in the sense that burning it will generate heat), but has negative digestive calories (in the sense that pulling the nutrients from it and pushing the waste out will burn more calories than gained by the process).
Some people have low absorption. They eat anything they want, and don't get fat. Others are much more efficient. The efficient can eat according to any diet you pick that is sustainable for an inefficient person, and still gain weight.
You don't make fat from nothing, but some people can get fat on 1/2 the calories of someone else. Blaming the person with the efficient metabolism for eating "only" 75% of the other person (despite having a nearly identical hunger response), makes you a gigantic asshole.
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Tell me that this doesn't scream for implementation with porn?
-Styopa
LOL, what could possibly go wrong?
There's a super(hero|villain) origin story in here waiting to happen.
VR, dodgy electrical shocks, a budding young scientist, a Microsoft product ... quick, someone should sell this to Marvel. =)
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I would still argue one point then: weight stability has nothing to do with internal absorption.
If a person is gaining weight that means their caloric intake is in excess of what they are using. If a stable weight is desired they must either reduce intake or increase calorie usage into a balance. Even if they have a high hunger response and can't reduce caloric intake they could do more activities that burn calories rather continue a more sedentary lifestyle.
The thing that really sucks is that moving around more ( burning calories ) is much much more difficult to start once obesity has set in due to how obesity affects the body. Stresses on joints and support bones are much greater, Oxygen absorption is generally lower, and depending on how obese the person is pressure on the diaphragm may make hard breathing even more difficult.
Between the difficulty in getting started exercising and the difficulty in breaking bad eating habits makes it very hard for many obese people to lose the weight. This does not excuse them from giving up before trying though.
To err is human; effective mayhem requires the root password!
You want to go skiing without leaving your den, you can. But I'm assuming a guy like you, you wanna go skiing you fly to Aspen. That's not what you're interested in here. It's about the stuff you can't have... right? The forbidden fruit... see that guy, with the drop-dead Philipino girlfriend? Wouldn't you like to be that guy for twenty minutes? The right twenty minutes? ... You want to be a girl... see what that feels like? ... It's all doable.
- Lenny, Strange Days
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"Fat? No, I'm efficient!"
Though I agree in sentiment, there's still the case that if you don't eat more than X weight of food, you can't put on more than X amount of weight.
The ones who are happy being fat, fine. The ones who are trying to lose weight and can't because of their "hunger"... that's the problem. Because it's hardly ever a celery that they pig out on, but chocolate and other high-fat foods.
It's still down, in the end, to a question of willpower. If you want to slim, you'll allow yourself to feel a little more hungry and - at the same time - find ways to cure the hunger that don't involve fat.
Your gut is just as adaptable as any other part of you - it can learn, given time. And though I don't want to trivialise the effort of losing weight, especially if you have medical conditions or even just suffer from the inherent medical conditions of being overweight (such as it being more difficult on your joints to exercise), there's still a willpower game at play here.
I'm sure there are people who struggle 24 hours a day against hunger and lose. And I'm sure there are a hundred times as many who win for as long as they want to and then give up. And I'm sure there are a hundred times as many again who say they are trying, and don't even bother.
There are weight-loss TV programs where they "stalk" the contestants. They know they could be watched. They know they have cameras in their house. They know they have to cut down. But still they have midnight snacks and go shopping for high-calorie food (if it's not in the house, at least you have to expend more effort than normal to go get it if you have a craving!).
Not everyone is a lard-ass. But equally not every overweight person struggles against an unbeatable desire to eat only high-calorie food.
"... the body they see does the same (those electrical stimulators mildly shock muscles to force a friend to mirror the user's movements). It's an imperfect system, but a fascinating example of the power of virtual reality. What else might we use VR systems for?"
Are you kidding? Brainwashing!
My guess is strapping somebody on a bench with an OR and giving him violent electroshocks to the testicles each time they see a Qur'an or a half-moon in their virtual reality and an electric orgasm if they see ham and ribs, is the first thing SOME people are going to do.
There are other factors too. Some foods get metabolised into energy in different ways, affecting metabolic rate. High fructose is a particular issue, as it's very common in the American diet and rapidly becoming so in Europe too - it causes blood sugar to peak quickly, so the body starts putting on fat stocks right away, then falls and leaves the person quickly hungry for more sugary goodness.
On the basic model though, you're right. The key to weight management is to eat less energy and exercise more. Easier said than done, as it requires defying some powerful instinctive urges.
Never mind human. Be more creative. You can have the humanform robot for working, then switch to your customised Creature from Outer Space body for partying.
VR control of robots (and body swapping/mind-sharing with other humans) is the central premise of Joe Haldeman's Forever Peace . Definitely a novel worth reading.
"Fat? No, I'm efficient!"
Though I agree in sentiment, there's still the case that if you don't eat more than X weight of food, you can't put on more than X amount of weight.
The ones who are happy being fat, fine. The ones who are trying to lose weight and can't because of their "hunger"... that's the problem. Because it's hardly ever a celery that they pig out on, but chocolate and other high-fat foods.
It's still down, in the end, to a question of willpower. If you want to slim, you'll allow yourself to feel a little more hungry and - at the same time - find ways to cure the hunger that don't involve fat.
Your gut is just as adaptable as any other part of you - it can learn, given time. And though I don't want to trivialise the effort of losing weight, especially if you have medical conditions or even just suffer from the inherent medical conditions of being overweight (such as it being more difficult on your joints to exercise), there's still a willpower game at play here.
I'm sure there are people who struggle 24 hours a day against hunger and lose. And I'm sure there are a hundred times as many who win for as long as they want to and then give up. And I'm sure there are a hundred times as many again who say they are trying, and don't even bother.
There are weight-loss TV programs where they "stalk" the contestants. They know they could be watched. They know they have cameras in their house. They know they have to cut down. But still they have midnight snacks and go shopping for high-calorie food (if it's not in the house, at least you have to expend more effort than normal to go get it if you have a craving!).
Not everyone is a lard-ass. But equally not every overweight person struggles against an unbeatable desire to eat only high-calorie food.
I've found antidepressants have negatively impacted my ability to keep my body where I want it to be, as odd as that sounds.
I'm taking an antidepressant for OCD problems, and since I've been taking it, I've had a significant reduction in trichotillomania (hair pulling) as well as other OCD problems and face numbness from extreme anxiety. However, I find that the antidepressant has neutered the highs as well as balancing the lows. I find I'm more complacent with things that bother me about myself, muting the motivation to correct them, and also killing most of the endorphin rush from exercising. Its a vicious cycle, because as you gain weight you get upset about your weight/wardrobe, and thus the original reason you were taking the antidepressant is replaced by your new unhappiness about your weight. I've tried to ween off the antidepressant but the OCD came back with a vengance as well as crippling levels of anxiety because I'm no longer used to it.
Its like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Staying in shape was much easier without the antidepressant, but functioning and managing my OCD was much harder. I guess where I'm going from this anecdote is that the heavy use/overperscription of antidepressants may be causing others to get in this frustrating conundrum.
"We have a right to tell other people that they are living unhealthy lives. Because I now pay for it."
No you don't. Just simply, no, you don't.
Do others have the right to tell you that you must always drive the speed limit, for -them-, because they might pay a tiny sliver of the additional risk involved?
In any case, this is all moot. Studies have shown that the public costs for the "healthy" end up being significantly higher than the severely overweight or smokers. Statistically, the latter drop dead of things like heart attacks, cheap. The former linger on and on with enormously expensive chronic diseases, like Alzheimer's.
So, yeah, turns out -you're- the drain on society, ass.
By operators of factory/medical robots and drones. You start to feel you are actually there. It will get so much better with the new Oculus
I was suprised to find out Joe is a professor of writing at MIT. But he wrote manyof novels before joining MIT.
1. At GITMO.
2. Another remake of the "Body Snatchers?"
Maybe we can now take basement-dwelling slashdotters and put them in the body of someone who goes outside and actually contacts other people in meatspace. The only problem I can see is the brightness of the daystar causing sensory overload.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
I wonder if either of you see the irony-- because the government arguably overstepped its bounds by forcing everyone to buy health insurance, now it gets to claim it can overstep its bounds even further by telling you what you can do with your body.
Government is the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
What if one of the users is a computer AI. It takes over the body of the other by providing those stimulations that force the user to move their body. Now the computer has a body. Rather than a simulation it is possession and possession is 9/10ths of the law...
Do others have the right to tell you that you must always drive the speed limit, for -them-, because they might pay a tiny sliver of the additional risk involved
Actually, yes. This is precisely the reasoning behind helmet laws for motorcycle riders in some states.
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You acting like an asshole like this might also have the result that somebody will be inclined to break your face and/or other parts of your body.
Since healthcare pays for that as well, we have a right to request that you don't act like a dick so you won't get your ass beaten for which healthcare pays.
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