Simulated Reality

[Senor_Grunt]

Edit, never mind.

Guys, don't get off topic with whether or not wikipedia sux4info.

Just try to stay on topic.

[Cuda]

Ah great idea, lets throw all the cripples and failures into a giant virtual reality!

See:The Sims 2

[noxiousraccoon]

Just imagine the lag.

[Yodel]

Personally, I believe that to create a full-fledged virtual reality from pure code would be nigh-on impossible. It's just too intricate. A more viable system would be to use a combination of the users' memories. Each user would contribute their share of memories (expanding the reality each time), and an artificial intelligence would compare those memories. If a user's memory of a certain place was radically different than that of the other users, then the AI would only contribute the memories that it thought was realistic. These memories would be stored in a way similar to that in a human brain, and would be transferred to the users' visual, auditory, olfactory, taste-processing, and touch-sensing centers of the brain. Initially the world would be rather restricted, but as more and more users contributed to the system, the reality would become more vast. Eventually it would be a full-fledged reality, with users experiencing something similar to a very vivid, controllable dream.

[[cc]z@nd!]

but how do you know what is stated there currently is fact? you don't thats why it is so unreliable

because the people that DO know what they're talking about (like doctors, college professors, historians, etc.) can change the article. that is how we figure out that government agencies are editing wikipedia entries, because there's a group of wiki moderators and such that constantly check altered pages for accuracy and investigate the editor's IP if need be. like how you'll see the [citation needed] or an alert at the top of an article warning of it's possible inaccuracy or bigotry.

anyways, this simulated reality is an interesting subject. not long ago I read the book the Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil about how very soon technology will be inseparable from our society. it touched on virtual reality, but based on what I got out of it, i'm confident that before long, maybe even in this century, we'll have the capacity to simulate life at a relatively detailed level. maybe not something as amazing as you'd think, but it's really only a matter of time until we simulate an entirely different society/planet/galaxy/whatever.

[preston566]

I didn't get to read everything about this, but I believe there is already
a Halo VR version. Though it costs aroun $400.
Saw it on an infomertial once

[Senor_Grunt]

I didn't get to read everything about this, but I believe there is already
a Halo VR version. Though it costs aroun $400.
Saw it on an infomertial once

Trimersion?

[hollow121314]

ahh i remember playing duke nukem 3d in virtual reality at some restaurant lobby like 11 years ago good times

[gh0570fchurch]

There was a version of America's Army released at one point that had a virtual reality interface (goggles display the visuals, motion sensors for movement, light guns, etc). I don't know if it was any fun to play, but I've seen videos of it, and it seems pretty playable.

[preston566]

Yeah, I think it's Trimersion.