First Impressions Inside the Project Holodeck VR Game World 49
Hesh writes "The space-pirates themed Project Holodeck game is a VR game that is initially targeted for the Oculus Rift and will marry VR with a world so interactive and immersive that it feels like you can reach out and touch it. Ben Lang over at RoadToVR recently got a chance to sit down with the team and try it out. He came out extremely impressed with how immersive the experience was: '...at one point I needed to set the Razer Hydra controllers down to adjust my helmet and I nearly tried to set them down on a virtual table next to me. There was no table in real life — had I not quickly realized what I was about to do, I would have dropped the controllers straight onto the floor below.'"
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Text only Google cache version. [goo.gl]
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Oh, I don't know, seems to me naming anything after the Holodeck is just asking for trouble. Second to warp drive, Holodeck failures seemed to suggest they were the most troublesome piece of equipment ever invented.
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Oh, I don't know, seems to me naming anything after the Holodeck is just asking for trouble. Second to warp drive, Holodeck failures seemed to suggest they were the most troublesome piece of equipment ever invented.
That's not surprising, Holodecks seem to be hugely complex and must have huge power demands. Immersive 3D holographic projection, high fidelity, overlapping force fields throughout the chamber to give the illusion of walls, surfaces and the ability to 'walk' endlessly, instant matter replicators (so when the holographic bartender pours you a beer, you can drink it), etc. There's probably transporter and gravity generators involved as well. Just about every bit of advanced Star Trek technology that we are unable to duplicate today is used in the holodeck.
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All a holodeck really has to do is simulate the input your senses would be sending your brain.
The holodeck as imagined works for all species who don't see straight through holograms, without tampering with their brains. I think that's a better design, given the available technology.
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As long as there is no mention of space marines they should do fine.
One does have to wonder if the folks at Games Workshop just hang out with their legal department for a bit whenever they need to release some new flavor material for the Ordo Hereticus...
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You're welcome.
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Yes, won't someone think of the virtual children.
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Everything you just listed as "bad" about this supposed VR is just as true about daydreams.
Maybe we should heavily regulate them, as well.
P.S. I find it funny you claim not to be a fascist, when in fact the policies you are advocating are surprisingly close to Italian fascism pre-WW2.
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for porn!
Women who don't manipulate men might stop being so damned rare once men can get all the sex they want from a realistic holodeck.
If all you want from a woman is sex, you'd be better off paying a professional - then you get what you want without all of the "manipulation" you seem to be experiencing. If you feel you're being manipulated, you're with the wrong woman. There's nothing wrong with compromise or give-and-take in a relationship, but why put up with manipulation?
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It is said that if you have a series of relationships that all have similar problems, either you are the problem or you are seeking out partners with whom you are similarly incompatible. Given your dickish response I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case here.
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for porn!
Women who don't manipulate men might stop being so damned rare once men can get all the sex they want from a realistic holodeck.
If all you want from a woman is sex, you'd be better off paying a professional - then you get what you want without all of the "manipulation" you seem to be experiencing. If you feel you're being manipulated, you're with the wrong woman. There's nothing wrong with compromise or give-and-take in a relationship, but why put up with manipulation?
Yes that's mighty chivalrous and PC of you but don't kid yourself. Women terminate more than 80% of all marriages and serious relationships that end. Women hold most of the power in most of the relationships because most relationships sadly do have a power-struggle component instead of a partnership model.
I believe it's closer to 66%, but if your theory is true, I don't understand why woman who wield so much power over men are so happy to leave the marriage, yet men who are apparently the men who are suffering this emotional abuse from women are so willing to remain in the marriage.
A realistic holographic sex partner would change that for many men because many women weaponize sex, parceling it out like a reward. A realistic AI to go with that would even more drastically alter the outcome of such a power struggle. Women would have to offer something that cannot be replicated, like real caring and real love.
So even in your ideal world with realistic holographic sex, women will still have something to withhold from men? Won't these manipulative woman still wield their power over men by withholding real love and real caring from them
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"withholding" and "real love" don't go together well.
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I don't understand why woman who wield so much power over men are so happy to leave the marriage, yet men who are apparently the men who are suffering this emotional abuse from women are so willing to remain in the marriage.
Because they're afraid of being single. That was easy. Let's see if the next one is so easy.
So even in your ideal world with realistic holographic sex, women will still have something to withhold from men? Won't these manipulative woman still wield their power over men by withholding real love and real caring from them?
People get away with abuse due to opportunity. I find it easier to find real love without real sex, though I too am in a loving relationship.
You make the claim that women use sex as a weapon against men to manipulate them and all it would take would be an artificial replacement for the sex, then women would lose their power and everyone (well, at least the men) would be happier, yet you claim that *I* am the one trivializing the issue?
There are many issues, and this is only one of them. We can talk about what it will take for men to stop beating women next, but that will be an even lumpier conversation.
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Women who don't manipulate men aren't rare, they just do that with pansies who let themselves be manipulated.
So you're saying that all women are manipulators? That sounds more than a little sexist to me.
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People have a tendency to manipulate others they don't respect.
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Humans test boundaries. It isn't malicious, at least in the beginning. If you don't maintain your boundaries people lose respect for you. Doesn't matter the sex. How we test boundaries generally does divide by gender.
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The article is slashdotted, but there's only 19 comments, and only one of them is a hater. Fascinating. Could it be that VR might actually make it this time? Really and truly? How does it go? “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Looks like Gandhi was right.
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It will be great if you enjoy strapping a computer to your back and wearing a big ass, heavy helmet with wires everywhere and two joysticks instead of gloves.
Oh and the graphics looked like something from the late 80s DOS PC era.
Yeah, fortunately for me, that's not what my VR Rig looks like. [vuzix.com]
Mine looks like sun glasses with ear-buds and they can hook up to my smart phone when on the go. Wearing them looks like watching a big 3D (70 inch or so) TV. The 90's came, and so did VR games like Exorex, Dactyl Nightmare, Descent, Quake, etc. The funny thing is that the old Descent game works great on my 3D TV (though I think that 3D TVs are a dead end -- If you need glasses for 3D then you can just put screens in them and take 'em with y
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Otherwise I find what you're talking about here pretty interesting but still, the kinect attachment is really a game changer, imagine paying 20 bucks to go for a half-hour into a huge warehouse where the kinect sensors watch you and let you actually walk physically around
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Not with the ridiculous setup in the picture it won't .
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