VR is finally here. I never thought it would be but it happened.
What will be the next "future technology" to finally arrive (as in, a polished worthwhile consumer product rather than just a stunt/demo)
Personal humanoid home robots? Personal VTOL? A lab on Mars? An underwater colony? Cities in Antarctica? Consumer gene editing?
>>7964779
What the fuck? How old are you? This technology has existed for decades, it just wasn't commercialized successfully.
>>7964782
Read the post more carefully. This time do not just skim and take away the gist, but pay attention to qualifiers.
>>7964779
>Personal VTOL
People have been able to buy helicopters for decades. Hell, a Bell 47G was only 52k new inc engines
>>7964813
Alright, but I meant something like the terrafugia which can more or less drive itself and park in a normal garage.
>>7964779
New New Orleans - Pirate District, it will be like Kowloon times Rife's Raft plus Somalia.
>>7964779
This isn't real VR. This is just two screens on face, it's just Virtual Boy with better color palette.
Proper VR would probably require direct neural input and output, and while we made some progress, we're still far from that.
>>7964949
I always imagine VR goggles and a harness with sensors and actuators that can know where you move and exert force back when necessary.
Much more viable than direct neural connection. Would double as a game and a way of making working out and training for all kinds of things more fun and safe.
Star Trek type holodeck.
Of course I'd only use it to visit sherwood forest or 19th century San Francisco and not anything perverted and sexual.
>>7964949
Massive success in goggles based VR will hasten the development or real VR by a fucking ton. People would get weirded out by neural VR today; they will look at it in a positive way after years of using more and more perfected goggles VR.
>>7964779
Can't wait for my waifu android.
>>7964962
>I always imagine VR goggles and a harness with sensors and actuators that can know where you move and exert force back when necessary.
I think it would be mostly impractical and we will just have to wait for neural interfaces.
Just like when there was a hype that in the future we will have flying cars, but now we know it's impractical, you just use cars for moving on land and big airplanes for traveling far away, and eventual small personal plane if you really want to fly privately.
>>7964779
None. I couldn't care less. I'd be happy with a textbook and a plank for a bed.
