Monday, September 22, 2014

I tricked my brain into thinking real life was VR


If you talk to anybody who's into virtual reality for more than ten minutes, you will probably end up speculating about when we might achieve total immersion: the point at which a simulated experience becomes functionally indistinguishable from real life. Most people will submit that we're not near that point yet, barring a nightmare scenario that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey posited at the company's conference this weekend — imagine "you're in a room that has no movement, no sound except for yourself breathing, and no scent... and you're in a straitjacket. Potentially you could experience that situation quite closely." But a couple of hours after that speech, I discovered that it's possible to get the opposite feeling: I accidentally...


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