MetaFilter posts tagged with virtualreality

Battletech and Red Planet: classic immersive gaming

Imhotep is Invisible — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:26:32 -0800

In 1990, the first BattleTech center opened in Chicago in the US. The centers were based around networked play of the BattleTech (related to the Battletech RPG) and Red Planet combat and racing games via immerse pods. BattleTech enthusiasts have gone so far as to purchase new and decommissioned pods to set up their own centers. Occasionally, pods go on tour.

"MMOs will be seen as being as cutting edge as 2D platform games are in 2009."

nushustu — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:24:31 -0800

SF author and mefite Charlie Stross speaks about video games in 20 years. Virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier has some similar ideas.

WiiVR

namagomi — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:12:06 -0800

Build your own low-cost Virtual Reality system with only two Wiimotes and a bunch of LEDs. This article on Coding4Fun shows you how. And no, this is not another Johnny Chung Lee post.

Burn patients find relief in Snow World.

GrammarMoses — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:51:37 -0800

Researchers have known for several years now that video games can distract people from pain. Now one virtual-reality game, developed for burn patients, has added a conceptual boost to this idea; the action takes place in a snowy landscape populated by penguins and snowmen. Wounded soldiers who have played the game (wearing VR goggles to help block out the sight of their burns being treated) report a reduction in pain of 30-50%. "Patients reported feeling less pain when playing Snow World, and had greater range of motion in their burnt limbs as their muscles relaxed. Less pain medication was also required, meaning patients were lucid for longer periods of time." In this video, one wounded vet talks about how the game has helped him.

Second Life sucks, then you die

chuckdarwin — Wed, 09 May 2007 08:18:19 -0800

Secondlifefilter: The popular (and increasingly Euro-centric) site has certainly been getting some bad press recently. It's a little sad that a virtual world must now be patrolled by real policemen.

VIRTUAL REALITY Hi-tech Embraced by Manufacturers & Therapists

Bodyguard — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:13:22 -0800

VIRTUAL REALITY Hi-tech Being Embraced by Manufacturers & Therapists
Long a darling of the military, aviation and video-game industries, virtual reality is being embraced by more businesses as the falling cost of computer power makes it more affordable. Manufacturers of farm equipment, car seats, mufflers and other products have joined automakers and aircraft manufacturers in using the technology to speed up and improve product design, train workers and configure factories and stores.
THERAPY: Overcoming trauma through virtual reality

Miracles You’ll See In The Next Fifty Years

MetaMonkey — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:24:03 -0800

Miracles You’ll See In The Next Fifty Years (Feb, 1950)
Some more up-to-date predictions: science, invention, space travel, colonisation, immortality, water shortage, flooding, nanotech, techno-apocalypse, extinction, mental health, smart machines, robots, mind uploading, AI, Asia, economics, demographics, goverance, cities. What is your prediction?

Ideal World

elphTeq — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:23:39 -0800

The Protagonist : Virtual Entrepreneur is a 5 minute excerpt of the crossover machinima/meatworld documentary project Ideal World, and is about one user's "real life" in the MMORPG Second Life. The finished documentary seeks to examine the growth, impact and society of this amazing digital reality over the last 2 years.
[ via New World Notes ] Disclaimer: I am not a Second Life player- as much as I would like to be, I'm too scared it's too much fun.

The future of gaming

knutmo — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:26:37 -0800

The future of gaming (video stream). Check out the demonstration by Total Immersion (French). This is the future, baby!

Almost there

euphorb — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:49:08 -0800

Quicktime virtual reality panoramas of thousands of picturesque places in the Western United States and Canada. Feast your eyes on The Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Yosemite, Mossbrae Falls, Monument Valley, a Ghost Town, the Cascades, Palm Canyon, Joshua Tree, Las Vegas, Redwood Forests, poppy fields, palm groves, and Bumpass Hell. (via Highways West) (previous Mefi appearance)

Virtual Tours of England

hama7 — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 08:31:21 -0800

Virtual Tours of England.

Rook! I doing it again!!

jonson — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:43:26 -0800

Walk the Great Wall of China, or rather, take a virtual stroll through the use of a QTVR-esque java applet along a good stretch of the Wall that seems to be in pretty fair shape. For the vast majority of us that will never get there in person, this is an interesting close up.

vacapinta — Mon, 01 Jul 2002 21:59:45 -0800

The Age of Simulation. Do we live in Reality or do we live in a Simulation? Following themes most popularly found in movies like The Matrix or in books like Stanislaw Lem's Futurological Congress, we are being told via email and even by philosophers at Yale, that what we perceive is not what is. Is this merely paranoia?

jacobw — Tue, 25 Dec 2001 09:14:43 -0800

How about another gadget to carry around? A laptop, an mp3 player, a cell phone, a PDA, a digital camera, and now, i-glasses?