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Apart from gaming, there's other interesting things this could do especially with a higher resolution display and fast connectivity.

For example , virtual tourism. Take a safari by streaming a 4K video via a mounted camera on a pivot on top of a truck.

Of course latency induced motion sickness could be a serious issue there but you may be able to get around this by streaming feeds from multiple cameras.

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I fully expect the future of video to be 4D camera orbs that record a 360 degree view and let viewers look around inside the recording as it plays, using head-mounted displays. Just imagine revisiting your last holiday and seeing stuff you didn't even see when you were there the first time, being able to explore the living surroundings again and again.

Interesting, but there's something eerie about deciding to strap on a helmet to re-visit a past holiday. Especially "again and again" :)

How often to we even browse our photos of old events, let alone 4D camera orb footage? Hey who knows, maybe that's how we'll be spending our twilight years.

Oculus Rift might also be the first thing to truly disrupt the cinema industry, if it works that well for movies, too (although you obviously lose the ability to move in a movie, but maybe that can change in the future). I guess the cinemas could buy them en-masse before everyone has them at home though, and before they got to experience it for themselves, just like with current 3D glasses, but I think the difference will be minimal from what you can experience at home, and what you can experience in the cinema with such goggles.

There's also potential for stress, depression therapy, etc.

Interesting you mention this -- one side project I wanted to work on was using the oculus rift to control a quadrocopter and simulate the feeling of flight. :)

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