With a title like that I’d better use some science to back things up, eh? So what’s this all about then? Short answer, it’s finding out the parameters and boundaries for how “you” a digital “you” can be when working with virtual reality. The rest of this article is the long answer with the sciency
Where we are… The 2nd developer iteration (DK2) of Oculus’s Rift technology is amazing, but still not consumer ready. Most of the reason for that is the software, with the VR & HCI communities still learning how to use the interface in meaningful ways, but the hardware has some of its limitations too. In any case,
I love the broad pattern-recognitions of the ol’ gray matter – the simple connections made between thises and thats, spreading inexorably from sites of stimulation and parellel processing, intersecting with ever-larger patterns to create surprising and enriching tangents and leading to great “Ah-HA!” moments. I had such a moment, of a remarkable nature (which is
I recently had a chance to play around with the Oculus Rift development kit, and came away thoroughly impressed. I’ll side with Cliff Bleszinski’s comments from SxSW: “There are two types of people when it comes to the Oculus Rift – there are those who haven’t seen it, and those who have seen it and believe.” The
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