Virtual Reality Idea

[Azerath]

Crappy 3D model:

The whole basic idea is to create the most realistic environment for a game you play.
I have only thought of this for first person shooters, or games like Oblivion.

Walking/Running Realism.

The main parts consist of the roller, I guess you can call, which is the sphere the human will stand on. It will be able to roll in all directs, but hold enough friction for the human to keep balance. The roller stays in place on the frame, so it may seem like you move, but you really don't. Just like how mice work, this could be used to make the running or walking highly realistic to the player. Depending on how fast you walk, the ball will spin at certain speeds. The speeds will be calculated in the direction it is spinning, and how fast to measure out how fast the virtual player is running/walking.

Stillness/weight Realism.
On the side of the roller, a cylinder like piece holds it like a frame. The pieces that come up from it, are also part of the frame. It holds a lightweight suit, or frame for the play to move it, with a balance of weights, to make it seem weightless... if possible. If you add an item to the inventory, or pick on up, the suit could increase weight, for the object picked up. The frame's suit also provides stillness, so when running or walking, you stay in the same place.

Vision Realism.

Easy, the classic glasses. High resolution glasses, with the a curve to create a real effect, besides a flat screen. The frame's suit can read your head movements, to move the screen in the direction your head moves. The eyes will be pretty large, so if you look around by just moving your eyes, it'll seem like your looking into a the whole virtual world.

Audio Realism.

Thought it's quite obvious and easy, surround sound. Perfect headphones for the perfect virtual reality. Just as some to the suit for more realistic sound. Explosions can trail off into high pitch noise, and cancel out all the other noise, instead of actually making a big enough sound to make your ears ring.

Touch/Pain Realism.

Although this is most likely really tough, it is still possible. If you were to have a full body suit, it would be make of metal, or steel, with bendable arm constraints, and everything else needed to seem like it's not their. The biggest and hardest part, would be adding a huge mess of tiny spheres all over the body, inside of the metal, so when you go to touch something in game, the sphere could move and create a texture for the thing you touch. You would also need constraints to hold your hand, or your body from moving farther, so you won't go through things.
Pain can be dealt with, with either real pain, with the spheres hitting you, or tricking the nerves in your skin.
You would probably also have to use the constraints used to keep you from walking into a wall, for making a small boundary for the weapons you use.


This may just sound really stupid, but I just got this crazy idea out of no where.

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[Lalam24]

You know what the model makes me thing of?  How you'd pilot a Gundam in G-Gundam, with the whole weird suit that would control the Gundam.  Along with that, on the shoulders there were these antenna things in the show, and it looks like something's sticking out from the shoulders in the model...

On Topic: So, what was the point of writing all of that?  I'm pretty sure that this has been thought up of, and documented, SEVERAL times.  Not trying to be an ass, but it just seems like you've wasted your time writing this huge thing, on something that alot of people think about every day.

[Burger]

Sounds like a thing that will neva happen

[NickTheSushi]

I want one now.

[Azerath]

You know what the model makes me thing of?  How you'd pilot a Gundam in G-Gundam, with the whole weird suit that would control the Gundam.  Along with that, on the shoulders there were these antenna things in the show, and it looks like something's sticking out from the shoulders in the model...

On Topic: So, what was the point of writing all of that?  I'm pretty sure that this has been thought up of, and documented, SEVERAL times.  Not trying to be an ass, but it just seems like you've wasted your time writing this huge thing, on something that alot of people think about every day.

Because I don't believe people have thought of my EXACT idea. I thought of it, I wanted to write it. Boom.

Sounds like a thing that will neva happen

Anything is possible. It's probably take a really good computer to run all of that at once though.

I want one now.

Me too.

[Bustos]

You know what the model makes me thing of?  How you'd pilot a Gundam in G-Gundam, with the whole weird suit that would control the Gundam.  Along with that, on the shoulders there were these antenna things in the show, and it looks like something's sticking out from the shoulders in the model...

Reminds me of the Rugrats Paris Movie, how Reptar is controlled.

Hi-Res Glasses... :P
Go a little bit further, like loving uber contacts.  It would look cooler seeing someone with out the glasses.  Like seeing them look around, but not really looking at the room there in.  Know what I mean?

Ive had similar ideas, but with something like and arena, or that training room in X-Men.  Contacts could show however youd want the world to be displayed.  Of course the room or arena would  have to be able to shape itself so you could climb things like fences or rocks or do some crazy gymnastic stuff.
Of course like Lalam said, Im sure other people have thought of this too.

I have another Virtual Reality thought that ive had for some years now.  I even have stuffty sketches I drew from back when lol.

Anyway, I think this is a pretty cool topic.

[WRB852]

It would make more sense to put a person inside a giant hamster ball.

[Dread]

or you could just play whatever game that you liked in the first place

[Netwars4]

for the pain part, it can be completed so much more simply, given 20 so years for science to catch up to the idea.

nerve ending electric shocks to the brain, at correct frequency, would probably do the trick of touch and pain.
of course this is just recollection of what ive seen, im not looking at it right now so it might be slightly different.
also you would need a limit on the pain thing for safety.

[Azerath]

or you could just play whatever game that you liked in the first place

It's an idea. AN IDEA.

[Bustos]

It would make more sense to put a person inside a giant hamster wheel.

A sphere* hamster wheel?

or you could just play whatever game that you liked in the first place

Wow your fun...
Whats cooler, keyboard or virtual reality...  Obviously one is waaaay cooler

[WRB852]

Lol, I meant ball.

[Digmaster]

I'm waiting for the day when we have matrix like interfaces, with a wireless signal going from our heads to a computer, but the signal can make us see/touch things. Then we can play pong anywhere we feel like :D.

[Ronin]

Stargate had an episode where they created a simulator for counter-attacks in the NORAD facility, except it went wrong and the pain signals eventually would cause cardiac arrest of the user.

[NickTheSushi]

I'm waiting for the day when we have matrix like interfaces, with a wireless signal going from our heads to a computer, but the signal can make us see/touch things. Then we can play pong anywhere we feel like :D.

"Hey Tim, wanna play Pong at the park after lunch?"

"Nah, I feel like bringin' in a copy of DOOM 3 and shootin' up the place"