Could you imagine it? You’ve just finished you dinner, you clear your plate away and jump on your CyberCarpet for a stroll around the lost city of Pompeii. Alright, so I’ll rewind a bit.This “Cybercarpet” I am talking about is a new invention made up of several conveyor-type belts that all combine together allowing you to go for a virtually endless walk in any direction – think of it as a treadmill, but one where you can travel in any direction.
The boffins over at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics that invented this have combined it with virtual reality headsets, which gives you a much more immersive experience than ever before - the first of which is a tour around Pompeii.
MyTake – the applications for this technology are virtually limitless – games, weight-loss regimes, training programs and so on. The really interesting thing for me would be combining the likes of this with a Second Life, sure it’s a bit of an indulgence right now when you consider the money involved, but perhaps this is the way we’ll be interacting in the near future…. “Darling, I’m off to the virtual pub”….
MyTake – the applications for this technology are virtually limitless – games, weight-loss regimes, training programs and so on. The really interesting thing for me would be combining the likes of this with a Second Life, sure it’s a bit of an indulgence right now when you consider the money involved, but perhaps this is the way we’ll be interacting in the near future…. “Darling, I’m off to the virtual pub”….
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