* https://youtu.be/hSm_vG586II?t=38 (safe for work, as is the whole series)
* https://youtu.be/hSm_vG586II?t=212
The anime series itself is really good. Kind of a science-fiction mystery story.
* https://youtu.be/6vJPJHhs2Xs (also safe for work)
That one has a less fleshed out / "natural" use of AR compared to Dennou Coil, but it's still pretty good.
It's only 6 episodes, and should be available on Netflix in most countries already. Not sure if Dennou Coil is.
I'd totally pay for that (I'm serious).
"Man kills wife in fit of rage, throwing knife at virtual Gordan Ramsey"
- Says "he didn't see her behind the Gordan Ramsey avatar"Sounds very different without one. (!)
But that is not what you'd be getting. You can very well listen to Feynman's pre-recorded lectures on YouTube today, and that's the best than can be done. Listening to the same clip being played while some image of him is projected on your glasses to make it look like he's in your living room will not improve the experience.
The closest I've seen is tech that would put his face and voice over the answers that come from chat GPT. Again, with no respect to the late professor, but his appearance is again the least interesting part "talk with Rchiard Feynman" is his appearance and voice. If I could get his help on some of my research, I wouldn't care if he looked like a blob fish and had the voice of Foghorn Leghorn. On the other hand, if I'm just getting ChatGPT answers, then there's no reason not to just make it look like the Crypt Keeper.
That's a feature? You can do that with a real ping pong ball... I'd love to not have to do it...
We got that way back when god invented the book. Or I could prop my phone up against the back of the counter and have a little youtube in my field of view.
Not only that, but VR/AR doesn't solve any incremental immersion blockers. My brain is very good at 'not looking away from the screen,' it's awful at overriding my inner ear balance, temperature sense, smell sense, circadian rhythm, etc.
Is anyone expecting this as a realistic possibility? As AR glasses are today they would need to become much more powerful while also much smaller. (With the current glasses it feels one might snap their neck in a rollerblading tumble very easily just because of the added weight and lever arm on the head.)
VR is absolutely breathtaking at transporting you. Oculus Welcome with its cosy camper van and robot was almost a religious experience for me. But VR doesn't make video games one iota more fun to play. At least not enough to justify the expense and inconvenience. Especially since the price of admission seems to be going up.
I don’t know what it is exactly about that game, but it’s really the only good VR game (and it’s great!)
That can change.
The biggest test of VR at theme parks in the US came with various Six Flags around the country strapping VR goggles (Samsung IIRC) on some of their coasters and drop towers. They're pretty widely regarded as failures. I got to try two of them and they definitely were not a plus to the ride experience, especially on a drop tower where the view from the top is half the fun.
You put the goggles on and ask for Einstein and a chalk board. Then you have a conversation.
I hope the XR future is more creative.
really? i cannot imagine strapping my late mum into some vr headset.
Glad I'm not the only one. I don't see the appeal at all.
i will admit that if i could ask my glasses "where is the nearest atm?" and it then popped up an arrow pointing at it, i might pay for that. but that means stuffing a lot of hardware into the frames - about the equivalent of a high-end smartphone.
Maybe I'm too old or too anti-social, but using an AR or VR for those things seems kind of sad and depressing to me.
I just want to be left alone when I want to focus and learn things. I love using ChatGPT to explore a subject now, though, because it's pure text and I am driving it, so I can totally see people who are more visual and social learners want something similar "packaged up" in an avatar.
Pretty sure people had the exact reaction when online dating came out thinking you must be some social outcast. Or when some people chose to WFH way before it became remotely normal and were branded antisocial for choosing to not be in the office with the colleagues.
Why be such a hater? I don't get it.
Just because some people are into different things than you or what society deems 'normal' doesn't make them weirdoes.
Mate, have you seen how much money onlyfans girls are raking in from just talking to simps or other lonely and desperate men online? Can be as high as millions USD per month. And they don't even do any explicit nudity for their money, they just send ludes and texts. And the texts are usually written by some people the girl hired since she can't reply to all of them. Those guys are getting taken to the cleaners.
Seems like a niche that could be filled via an AI for cheaper. ChatGPT-3 had some awesome humor before it got lobotomized to be a mundane question answering drone. Could probably replace some standup comedians too.
(I'm surprised that afaik nobody has really cracked the "Tamagotchi" pet care formula on smartphones, which seemed ideally suited to a visually and sonically enhanced version of the same basic ritual)
For that reason, I suspect that to do it with a smartphone, you'd do better with a chatbot talking to users via e.g. Whatsapp or another messenger than a custom app, because people associate messengers with real people rather than a "game".
In other contexts, it's rich white guys dreaming of leaving their puny body and becoming Ubermech with the help of tech...