Truth is, 'virtual reality' has never taken off - and Home is really VR without the goggles. As accurately portrayed in Pixar's WALL-E, do we really want to spend our lives plugged into machines or go outside and enjoy nature and partake in physical sports and gaming? Go try paintball or lazertag and you'll be hook - and keep fit. The odd blast of an immersive 3D game, Gears Of War etc, is fine, but social is about tactile living breathing reality. Else we'll all going to die of diabetes. Nasty.
Virtual reality is still ahead of the technology curve. You're underestimating things. Augmented reality is filling the gap until technology can catch up with what we desire. Once it's immersive enough, humans won't be getting diabetes anymore without severe neglect anyway.
Your thinking here is too limited. The real future direction is complete immersion, as in no more physical body needed after it wears out. You then become a part of the computer cloud. Also, computer technology is evolving so fast that a fully immersed human will barely be able to tell it apart from reality, other than the fact that just about anything is possible. Compare Pacman to Crysis. That's how far we have come in 30 years. Since computer speed is increasing exponentially, the gains in the next 30 years will be even more impressive by comparison. Also, the young field of Optogenetics holds promise in direct computer/brain interfaces. Several projects such as Blue Brain are making real progress in whole brain simulation.
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Truth is, 'virtual reality' has never taken off - and Home is really VR without the goggles. As accurately portrayed in Pixar's WALL-E, do we really want to spend our lives plugged into machines or go outside and enjoy nature and partake in physical sports and gaming? Go try paintball or lazertag and you'll be hook - and keep fit. The odd blast of an immersive 3D game, Gears Of War etc, is fine, but social is about tactile living breathing reality. Else we'll all going to die of diabetes. Nasty.
and you say that after watching Wall-E....an animated film about a robot.
Virtual reality is still ahead of the technology curve. You're underestimating things.
Augmented reality is filling the gap until technology can catch up with what we desire.
Once it's immersive enough, humans won't be getting diabetes anymore without severe neglect anyway.
Your thinking here is too limited. The real future direction is complete immersion, as in no more physical body needed after it wears out. You then become a part of the computer cloud. Also, computer technology is evolving so fast that a fully immersed human will barely be able to tell it apart from reality, other than the fact that just about anything is possible. Compare Pacman to Crysis. That's how far we have come in 30 years. Since computer speed is increasing exponentially, the gains in the next 30 years will be even more impressive by comparison. Also, the young field of Optogenetics holds promise in direct computer/brain interfaces. Several projects such as Blue Brain are making real progress in whole brain simulation.