Comments on: Where’s My Virtual Reality? http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:41:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: fuj http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11188 fuj Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:56:05 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11188 "I think VR with goggles is more likely to cause migraine than mystical experiences." Nice opinion. “I think VR with goggles is more likely to cause migraine than mystical experiences.”

Nice opinion.

]]> By: alistair http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11173 alistair Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:01:55 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11173 cliff does have some interesting ideas though. cliff does have some interesting ideas though.

]]> By: Benway http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11161 Benway Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:37:55 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11161 I think VR with goggles is more likely to cause migraine than mystical experiences. I think VR with goggles is more likely to cause migraine than mystical experiences.

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11158 Tim Boucher Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:38:11 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11158 One of my favorite virtual reality spoofs on TV is the Simpsons episode where Bart & Lisa refuse to do their chores of yardwork. Then they go to some kind of expo, and Bart really wants to go on the yardwork simulator. One of my favorite virtual reality spoofs on TV is the Simpsons episode where Bart & Lisa refuse to do their chores of yardwork. Then they go to some kind of expo, and Bart really wants to go on the yardwork simulator.

]]> By: alistair http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11155 alistair Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:39:33 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11155 no cliff didn`t.................... no cliff didn`t………………..

]]> By: MySpace, MyReality - Pop Occulture http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11148 MySpace, MyReality - Pop Occulture Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:46:54 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11148 [...] will add more than is currently on there. Anyway, JK and I spent a long time talking about virtual reality last night, and the connections between the two topics go [...] [...] will add more than is currently on there. Anyway, JK and I spent a long time talking about virtual reality last night, and the connections between the two topics go [...]

]]> By: Kylark http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11147 Kylark Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:41:49 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11147 <blockquote>we have been promised a lot of things over the years……..paperless offices, <strong>loyal women</strong>, labour saving devices, etc. </blockquote> Loyal women??!? Perhaps Cliff Pickover can <a href="http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/neoreality.html" rel="nofollow">help</a>.

we have been promised a lot of things over the years……..paperless offices, loyal women, labour saving devices, etc.

Loyal women??!? Perhaps Cliff Pickover can help.

]]> By: fuj http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11146 fuj Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:35:52 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11146 http://www.goertzel.org/books/spirit/contents.htm This guy insinuates that VR development was explicitly halted because of its high potential to trigger mystical experiences. Very plausible, imo. http://www.goertzel.org/books/spirit/contents.htm

This guy insinuates that VR development was explicitly halted because of its high potential to trigger mystical experiences. Very plausible, imo.

]]> By: alistair http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11140 alistair Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:31:15 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11140 futurama is awesome. lela is hot........for a cyclops. futurama is awesome. lela is hot……..for a cyclops.

]]> By: SubstanceM http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11127 SubstanceM Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:00:41 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11127 Austin Powers spoofed the vid phone thing the best. When Austin is in the 60's, the vid is crystal clear. When he goes to the 90's, all jerky and streamy like we know it is. My take on the VR - shit don't work as well as advertised. Ask Ron Popeil... One of the funniest Futurama's I've seen, Fry (PHILIP j fry...) wins a VR shoot em up game, and is dancing around shooting into the air, all champ like and heroic, in the VR game. Cut to him in the real world, he's a goof with a helmet and wires, slack jawed grin and dorky laff, running on the spot. Austin Powers spoofed the vid phone thing the best.
When Austin is in the 60’s, the vid is crystal clear.
When he goes to the 90’s, all jerky and streamy like we know it is.
My take on the VR - shit don’t work as well as advertised.
Ask Ron Popeil…
One of the funniest Futurama’s I’ve seen, Fry (PHILIP j fry…) wins a VR shoot em up game, and is dancing around shooting into the air, all champ like and heroic, in the VR game. Cut to him in the real world, he’s a goof with a helmet and wires, slack jawed grin and dorky laff, running on the spot.

]]> By: alistair http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11125 alistair Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:39:38 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11125 we have automatic sliding doors. they just don`t open fast enough sometimes. the one`s in star trek snapped open, sharp like the creases in spock`s pants. we have been promised a lot of things over the years........paperless offices, loyal women, labour saving devices, etc. but here we are working harder, stressing out more and buying technology only to find that we`re the ones who are beta testing it for the manufacturer. we have automatic sliding doors. they just don`t open fast enough sometimes. the one`s in star trek snapped open, sharp like the creases in spock`s pants.
we have been promised a lot of things over the years……..paperless offices, loyal women, labour saving devices, etc. but here we are working harder, stressing out more and buying technology only to find that we`re the ones who are beta testing it for the manufacturer.

]]> By: A. Temple http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11124 A. Temple Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:12:24 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11124 Agreed on the videophones, all the comic books of the 60s showed that more advanced civilisations would have them, and every science fiction author from Heinlein to Tiptree used them (Heinlein to great effect in <em>Stranger in a Strange Land</em>). Another thing we should have had by now are aircars (Tiptree called them suncars on the assumption they'd run on solar power). Star Trek introduced a great many things that were in production at the time and that are commonplace today; other things, such as the automatic sliding doors and world peace, are still out of reach. I've always considered what you're talking about to be a sort of "meme"age, although I don't use that term lightly (pause for brief digression into the very use of the term "meme" by people who have never read <em>The Selfish Gene</em>, <em>Consciousness Explained</em>, or even <em>Snow Crash</em>, &c., &c.). I know of a good many people who believe that the concept of intelligent extraterrestrial life, as presented to us in a variety of ways over the years, is just such an example of imprinting. They believe that we have already made contact or are about to, and the truth is being kept from the general public until we the unwashed morons general public are "ready" for it -- in the Future, that is! Agreed on the videophones, all the comic books of the 60s showed that more advanced civilisations would have them, and every science fiction author from Heinlein to Tiptree used them (Heinlein to great effect in Stranger in a Strange Land). Another thing we should have had by now are aircars (Tiptree called them suncars on the assumption they’d run on solar power).

Star Trek introduced a great many things that were in production at the time and that are commonplace today; other things, such as the automatic sliding doors and world peace, are still out of reach.

I’ve always considered what you’re talking about to be a sort of “meme”age, although I don’t use that term lightly (pause for brief digression into the very use of the term “meme” by people who have never read The Selfish Gene, Consciousness Explained, or even Snow Crash, &c., &c.). I know of a good many people who believe that the concept of intelligent extraterrestrial life, as presented to us in a variety of ways over the years, is just such an example of imprinting. They believe that we have already made contact or are about to, and the truth is being kept from the general public until we the unwashed morons general public are “ready” for it — in the Future, that is!

]]> By: Noddy http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-11113 Noddy Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:10:46 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/03/10/wheres-my-virtual-reality/#comment-11113 This reminds me of the hype back in the late 60s and early 70s about video telephones. We had telephone people come in and show us working models of video telephones and we were ardently assured we'd all have one by the late 70s, they'd be as common as TVs were becoming. While we now have telephones that send pictures and such, the working video phones we saw back then (think the Star Trek monitors of the original Trek) still aren't available. This reminds me of the hype back in the late 60s and early 70s about video telephones. We had telephone people come in and show us working models of video telephones and we were ardently assured we’d all have one by the late 70s, they’d be as common as TVs were becoming.

While we now have telephones that send pictures and such, the working video phones we saw back then (think the Star Trek monitors of the original Trek) still aren’t available.

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