You mean like lucid dreaming? That wouldn’t work too well; when you’re dreaming everything beyond your own body is nothing more than a shadow of what you expect to perceive and behaves in strange ways.
Well, the VR machine makes it so you experience things exactly the way you want.
Now that I’ve been thinking, maybe the VR machine can let people play FPS video games with each-other, but make it as if they’re actually shooting each-other in real life. Players are put into a VR world, given a choice of weapons, and have to kill each-other. When someone dies, they wake up.
I’m starting to wish creating this VR machine was possible lol.
Honestly, until technology gets to the point you are describing, the vast majority of vr-esque attempts such as kinect, occulus rift, etc. will suck. the key to virtual reality is the virtual aspect: actual movement of the body makes it all a gimmick. It’ll be really cool when it can interpret brain signals as player movements as opposed to physical movements as player movements. Until then I’m not bothering with it all.
It’d be really cool if a machine actually used your brain as the computer to generate the 3d worlds you were going to explore. The brain of course operates entirely differently than arranging polys and tris, however if there were a way to effectively translate one to the other it’d be very cool. Smarter people (if it would in fact correlate) could brag about getting better frames.
Actual movement makes it a gimmick? I would consider actual movement essential to the VR experience. Your movements in real life translate directly into the virtual world: hence, virtual reality. If you’re chillin’ in a chair controlling a player with your brain, that’s a layer of I’m-not-actually-there that moving around directly in the virtual world is free of.
Which is why I’m pretty pumped for the Oculus Rift/Virtuix Omni combo.
The problem is there’s no way to effectively translate physical movement into virtual movement. You end up with stupid stuff like the feeling of walking in place, stock gestures not matching animations, etc.
My point is that, if done properly, sitting on a couch controlling a player no longer becomes sitting on a couch, it becomes standing in C17 running from the combine. The physical aspect ruins the immersion because it’s dependent entirely on the physical world and its limitations which creates a gap between it and the virtual world.
what about if instead of texting everybody stabbed a bit of paper with their message onto front doors with daggers
society would shred itself into classes based on whether you use a tomahawk instead. obama gets a fuckin claymore
Haha.
Another one: nanobots that heal wounds. Inject them inside you, and any missing tissue or whatever is restored. Downside is, it may be a double edged sword, as it could cause cancer if something goes wrong in their programming (replicating cells going awry).
Wait, so Naomi’s super cancer in MGS4 actually has basis in fact? Who woulda thunk it.
Robbing a bank and the underwear win the thread imo.
As for what was posted above concerning my idea, I believe you’re right. In all honesty of that idea were to be attempted, and (let’s just say M$ and the other big game companies accepted it) it were to be successful, the base would definitely need to be one HELL of a computer to perform as well as necessary, as well as maintain adaptability amongst different consoles/games.
Yeah, when people invent teleportation technology, I’m going to invent a “hoseless hose,” so people can water their damn plants without that silly, cumbersome hose.
Yes, it would be nice if we had incredibly advanced medical technology that can cure anything.
And, K3nny, pretty sure he has no idea what he’s talking about with the cancer thing. AFAIK they could only really do that if they start changing around the DNA in random cells, which seems very unlikely.
I want wireless electricity!
Interestingly this is brought up in numerous works dealing with teleportation, yet in the end people end up being ok with it. They way they put it in Timeline was, “Since you’re instantaneously reconstructed at the very moment you are destroyed, how can you be said to have died? You haven’t died. You’ve just moved somewhere else.” They also said earlier, when discussing how you were somehow conscious all the way down to the quantum level, “But nobody understands consciousness anyway.”
I still don’t think I’d ever go for it though, that fear is just too strong for me.
Now THAT is a great idea.
It’s been worked on since Tesla’s day, I guess it’s just not cost-effective yet.
Here’s another idea to make millions easy:
A “Walker, Texas Ranger” RPG.
Throw all your upgrade points into Roundhouse Kick and go to town. 
I think it’s probably much too cost effective. There’s no way to make money off of it.
“Where do you put the meter?” -JP Morgan
You can buy things right now that let you charge a phone by setting it on a pad.
that’s induction, not “wireless” electricity where your phone can charge in your pocket
so nobody can see the potential in my idea of painting a screen anywhere?
It’s the best idea ever, if you paint a table: you have a smart table, paint a brick: you have a smartphone, paint your room: you have a 360 degree view display for google street view, 3d games etc… just needs an integrated processor/power and it can be done using nanobots even if they’re not ready to fix humans yet.