What will be the next step in entertainment and information technology?

[Adam Jensen]

Holo keyboards and all that. Think Final Fantasyish. That would be uber

Almost here.



http://www.slashgear.com/iphone-5-co...play-24173949/

[Sughs]

People dinked around with virtual reality back in the 90s but it failed to catch on. It's too exhausting. Entertainment time is relaxation time. Even with better technology I don't see it catching on.

In the 90's that was not Virtual Reality.

Believe me, when we have Virtual Reality like in the anime Sword Art Online it will catch on.

[Ihnasir]

This. Same goes for unicorns. Everyone says that sex would take over their lives but no it really wouldn't, would you want to try shagging 12 hours a day for consecutive days? I challenge you.

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No memes please

[v2prwsmb45yhuq3wj23vpjk]

Almost here.



http://www.slashgear.com/iphone-5-co...play-24173949/

That's a concept video and the only thing close to real in that is the keyboard being projected on to the surface.

[Alski]

I would think Virtual Reality would come before mind uploading/downloading.

Its almost here and i cant wait, got a friend who is getting the Oculus rift when it comes out so he can program stuff for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYzlC9eZzyk

[Sughs]

If they can make Sword Art Online, then consider my life complete. Ide totally upload my brain to that world before I died.

You think just like me!

Can you imagine living forever in a game like SAO, with those beautiful zones where Kirito sleeps under a tree?

It's my dream!

[Jekerdud]

Personally i would probably lose far more productivity if i had holodeck Skyrim. I mean sex is fun but after a while you get tired - and Skyrim has magic. Magic is never dull.

If it's like the PC version of skyrim, you *could* just get some of the adult only mods.... best of both!

In all seriousness, while the chip in the brain thing sounds nice, I doubt that would happen en masse for quite some time. With as much as I enjoy technology, I'm not ready for a chip in my head just to watch a new movie. There's something to be said to sit in a couch with some friends and laughing at the dumb jokes that are in movies these days.

VR's are a likely possibility, but I think perfection of 3D technology will come first. It's good, but there is plenty of room for improvement.

[Lazy Gecko]

Oculus Rift.

Hell, they're already making porn for it.

[Hyde]

augmented reality

[Tzalix]

This. Same goes for unicorns. Everyone says that sex would take over their lives but no it really wouldn't, would you want to try shagging 12 hours a day for consecutive days? I challenge you.

...Well, it's not like I would say no to it if she was hawt!

OT: Virtual reality.

That's a concept video and the only thing close to real in that is the keyboard being projected on to the surface.

Well, you can get this:




http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e722/

[Sughs]

Oculus Rift.

Hell, they're already making porn for it.

Oculus Rift will be awesome, i saw yesterday the videos from CES 2013 and it's much better than i thought. If they can make it with a really good 3D, 1080P and 60 FPS in the next few years as they are saying, it will be awesome.

Screens will become a thing of the past for gaming.

[Deleted]

Probably better implementation of current technology. Specifically Smell-o-vision or having special effects within the movie environment. Car Chases would have the smell of burning rubber, rain on the screen would result in a mist of water being sprayed on the audience. A scene in a restaurant would have all the different smells of food.

until we can mass produce and manipulate on demand holographic technology and working force fields wont get a "holodeck" type environment, Also we do not currently understand enough of how the brain works to start messing with cybernetic implants for direct connection to the net.

[Deleted]

I guess we need to figure out how to make projected content interactable unless we already have, wonder how something like that would work?

At this stage, it's probably like one of those very early touchscreens that needs to re-calibrated every boot-up and still lacks any form accuracy.

And I'm aware that thinkgeek has a product on sale like it, but it's highly impractical. With a phone or a tablet pc you want portability, not extra hardware to carry along, and it's probably highly unreliable due it's dependence of a flat surface.

The next step is probably going towards the eye projection/display like the Oculus Rift or the Google glasses. After that is making the input to the device more convenient, probably by taking the input device or method out of the picture and have it pick up signals directly from your brain, rather than have it rely on voice commands or a controller.
But that's all a long way off, considering how many years we've had voice recognition and how shoddy it still is.

[Deleted]

Oculus Rift will be awesome, i saw yesterday the videos from CES 2013 and it's much better than i thought. If they can make it with a really good 3D, 1080P and 60 FPS in the next few years as they are saying, it will be awesome.

Screens will become a thing of the past for gaming.

Just Watched the CES vid.
My god! That is a must have

[Deleted]

Im not sure how entertainment that requires surgery would ever catch on.

Yep.. I don't care how next get or "hip" or awesome it is, if it needs surgery or something implanted, I'm out. Not only for principle but also because technology gets outdated soon and it would require updates, until you look like one of those aging celebrities who have gone too far with plastic surgeries..

[Adam Jensen]

That's a concept video and the only thing close to real in that is the keyboard being projected on to the surface.

Heh, that's why I said "almost" there.

[v2prwsmb45yhuq3wj23vpjk]

I guess we need to figure out how to make projected content interactable unless we already have, wonder how something like that would work?

A motion tracking camera next to the projector that's programmed to measure distance and to work off of cues within the projection. Basically the top of the projection would have some special color to tell it 'this is where the keyboard starts' and it would need to be programmed to be able to recognize when people were attempting to push down the buttons. Problem is that it would only work from one angle, meaning if you had one finger in front of the other you wouldn't have the second finger registering. Not a particularly huge problem with a keyboard, though. It could potentially use two motion trackers, one on each end of the phone, to work better, but then you'd need to program them to run in parallel.

Heh, that's why I said "almost" there.

I would say 'almost' is accurate for projected keyboards, but not for holographic.

[Grym]

Anyone seen the gadget show where Sansung made this "interactive window"? May be everything will become like that very soon.

Yes it is a bit like the holo keyboards and such.

[Elegiac]

Ah ok, I thought it would be something where if there was noticeable interference with the light, like a finger being on a key, it would register that and use it to represent a keystroke.

Call me old fashioned, but I need pushback on a keyboard to type correctly.

[Deleted]

This is where it's headed. Next stop you will be a direct witness inside movies. You will be able to touch and feel and smell everything as it's happening just like if you were an innocent passerby (or more precisely a ghost). Want to keep following the movie? Get in the car with the good guy for the high speed chase!

The camera angle would be w/e angle you wanted, the scenes you wanted to watch are w/e you feel like participating in. This would give movies so much rewatchability. Finding easter eggs and "deleted" scenes would be fun too.

Of course this VR stuff probably works better with games, but I can see movies going that way too.

That would only work in games and simulations. What you describe is fundamentally different than a movie, i.e it's not a movie.




Like others said, Virtual Reality and Quantum Computing are the next big thing.