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05-01-2014 08:35 PM
Just a quick explanation of what the NerveGear is for the uninitiated:
In 2012, the anime (Phrase for Japanese styled cartoons) Sword Art Online was released, set in the near future of 2022 where in by a game called Sword Art Online is being released. The title is a VRMMORPG that features a an all sensory fully immersive virtual reality system called Full Dive, enabled by a device called the NerveGear. The device bears a helmet form factor and operates by reading brain signals to obtain control inputs, blocking efferent messages from the brain to the body to prevent the user from performing in game actions in real life (which could injure them), and sends it's own afferent sensory signals to the brain to immerse the consciousness, all via the use of high density microwave transceivers. The players get trapped in the game by the creator of the game, Kayaba Akihiko, who tells them that the removal of the NerveGear or dying in game will result in the device releasing it's limiter and using high density microwaves, kill the user. The anime became very popular and is scheduled to have a second season released in July of this year.
I remember being excited for the show waiting for it's release with anticipation since I'd been reading the manga a few months earlier and gotten an interest in VR from prior connections in a webcomic a friend was making that lightly touched on VR and from watching the Oculus Rift demo by John Carmack at e3 of that year (2012). I can recall as far back as the first episode reading thee comments sections below the video streams and seeing many posts of people wishing devices like the NerveGear existed and to be able to play the game Sword Art Online, many completely unaware that the seeds of the VR revolution were already sprouting, if only just above the ground.
Admittedly, I'd say this show was what brought me over the edge to want to be a game developer (I'd been debating going into Sequential Art primarily at the time) and I think that for many, this will be the program that inspires their career path on some level as prior works of Science Fiction have done in the past. As a result of this, I'm very fond of the anime (though I acknowledge now that the show has MANY flaws) and feel glad to know that this program has affected many others as it did me and that there is hope for virtual reality as medium yet. However, with this hope, comes the simultaneous surge of impatience and ignorance on the part of the uninformed that I think needs some addressing, hence why I created the following YouTube video:
TL;DR / TL:DW
1.) I explain the NerveGear's technique for VR (cancel body movements, read brain signals for controls, send signals for immersion)
2.) The Nerve Gear's technique for VR is sound, but the technique for achieving it just plain old doesn't exist. Nothing we have achieves an effect remotely close to this. To use such a technique is to essentially pioneer new technology
3.) Controls may have a foundations in today's EEG technology, but whether or not it can be refined remains to be seen.
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I've seen all too many a posts suggest that we simply do as they did in Sword Art Online, without so much as a single though on how this can be done. We need a bit of a reminder that a technique without applications is basically worthless. I understand that the prospect of VR being nears is enticing, I myself could use a brake installation on my own drive to push VR forward, but we have to accept that VR is in it's nascent stages and that both Sword Art Online and NerveGear style VR are not going to be here right now just because the seeds are starting to sprout and we really want it. VR is a dellicate medium that will require a great amount of hardship and effort to cultivate properly. If we aren't careful, we'll simply invite a myriad of problems to come out so fast we can't handle them, which means no fun for anyone.
In 2012, the anime (Phrase for Japanese styled cartoons) Sword Art Online was released, set in the near future of 2022 where in by a game called Sword Art Online is being released. The title is a VRMMORPG that features a an all sensory fully immersive virtual reality system called Full Dive, enabled by a device called the NerveGear. The device bears a helmet form factor and operates by reading brain signals to obtain control inputs, blocking efferent messages from the brain to the body to prevent the user from performing in game actions in real life (which could injure them), and sends it's own afferent sensory signals to the brain to immerse the consciousness, all via the use of high density microwave transceivers. The players get trapped in the game by the creator of the game, Kayaba Akihiko, who tells them that the removal of the NerveGear or dying in game will result in the device releasing it's limiter and using high density microwaves, kill the user. The anime became very popular and is scheduled to have a second season released in July of this year.
I remember being excited for the show waiting for it's release with anticipation since I'd been reading the manga a few months earlier and gotten an interest in VR from prior connections in a webcomic a friend was making that lightly touched on VR and from watching the Oculus Rift demo by John Carmack at e3 of that year (2012). I can recall as far back as the first episode reading thee comments sections below the video streams and seeing many posts of people wishing devices like the NerveGear existed and to be able to play the game Sword Art Online, many completely unaware that the seeds of the VR revolution were already sprouting, if only just above the ground.
Admittedly, I'd say this show was what brought me over the edge to want to be a game developer (I'd been debating going into Sequential Art primarily at the time) and I think that for many, this will be the program that inspires their career path on some level as prior works of Science Fiction have done in the past. As a result of this, I'm very fond of the anime (though I acknowledge now that the show has MANY flaws) and feel glad to know that this program has affected many others as it did me and that there is hope for virtual reality as medium yet. However, with this hope, comes the simultaneous surge of impatience and ignorance on the part of the uninformed that I think needs some addressing, hence why I created the following YouTube video:
TL;DR / TL:DW
1.) I explain the NerveGear's technique for VR (cancel body movements, read brain signals for controls, send signals for immersion)
2.) The Nerve Gear's technique for VR is sound, but the technique for achieving it just plain old doesn't exist. Nothing we have achieves an effect remotely close to this. To use such a technique is to essentially pioneer new technology
3.) Controls may have a foundations in today's EEG technology, but whether or not it can be refined remains to be seen.
____________________________
I've seen all too many a posts suggest that we simply do as they did in Sword Art Online, without so much as a single though on how this can be done. We need a bit of a reminder that a technique without applications is basically worthless. I understand that the prospect of VR being nears is enticing, I myself could use a brake installation on my own drive to push VR forward, but we have to accept that VR is in it's nascent stages and that both Sword Art Online and NerveGear style VR are not going to be here right now just because the seeds are starting to sprout and we really want it. VR is a dellicate medium that will require a great amount of hardship and effort to cultivate properly. If we aren't careful, we'll simply invite a myriad of problems to come out so fast we can't handle them, which means no fun for anyone.
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08-13-2018 11:48 AM
yeah lucid dreaming could be really cool and I have looked at that topic but It would replace everything they have been working on for years and years. like the Santa Cruz which is like a standalone Version of the rift. You would have to prove to them that its worth their time and effort. and we all know it is XD. but what I would think is first making them use BCI for their controller methods!
YES XDDDD
YES XDDDD
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