Team Hoof-Hearted Trevor Akers

Kimberly Caleon Chris Chapman Lee Ellington

Andres Gonzalez Jose Zummar

(1) http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/other-gadgets/virtual-reality.htm

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Description Andres

Different Types Lee

Current and Future Applications

• Medicine & Engineering Kimberly

• Entertainment Jose

• Education and Religion Trevor

• Military Chris

Negative Effects Chris

Conclusion Andres

• “If you're talking about what you can hear, what you can smell, taste and feel, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”

-Morpheus (The Matrix)

• Engineered illusory environment

• It transports the user • It does more than just

pictures • Laptop vs. virtual

reality simulator

(1) http://io9.com/5288859/7-virtual-reality-technologies-that-actually-work

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1. Immersive (most common) 2. Non-immersive 3. Neutral-Direct

http://www.streamhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/virtual_reality.jpg http://wakingheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/holodeck-ed.jpg

• Use of goggles and other devices • Cut off from reality • Normal sensory input is replaced • Private experience • Participants can be represented

by anything

[1] http://media.techeblog.com/images/gamingimmersive_2.jpg

[2] http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/telepathy/telepathyivr2.jpg

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• Requires no personal hardware • Persons enter environment • Normal sensory queues

supplemented by additional sensory stimulus

• Communal experience • Participants remain themselves in

the environment

[1] http://www.cooper.com/journal/images/2010/imon/nasa-flight-simulator.jpg

[2] http://im.wk.io/images/v/543d8a/battlefield-3-ps3-co-op-demonstration-from-gamescom-2011.jpeg

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• All types of sensory input are

‘jacked’ into the proper areas of the brain

• Indistinguishable from normal sensory inputs

• Person's consciousness is entirely transferred into virtual reality

• Sensations exactly identical to "real" ones could be created

[1] http://members.tripod.com/mrnatural3/bg3/matrix4.jpg [2] http://www.propagandamatrix.com/images/march2007/080307matrix2.jpg

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Pain Relief

Phobias and Addictions

Surgeon Training

Neuroscience Research (1) http://www.hitl.washington.edu/research/vrpain/SCIAMFin.pdf (2) http://www-kismet.iai.fzk.de/KISMET/docs/UKMITATi1.jpg

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Engineering Advancements Needed:

Level of Touch Detail

Electroheological

Fluids

Level of Visual Detail

Resolution & Refresh Rates

Artificial Intelligence

Behavioral Research

• Art – Diving into the Art – Walking into a Canvas

• www.canvas.uiuc.edu

– Traveling to different continents in art galleries – Guggenheim Virtual Museum

[1] http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions [2] http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections [3] http://www.guggenheim.org/berlin

• Video games – Largest VR Industry in the world – Making the Jump to 3-D – PS-Move - Nintendo Wii – Xbox Kinect – Nvidia 3D Vision Project – MMORPGS

[1] http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Black+ops&view=detail&id=DE2AADA0DBEF3A321EB66E74CE9267520E1F9B94&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR [2] http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Diablo+3&view=detail&id=A90A8ED723BF5F4FC9EE3E3189E9F83E836D220A&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR [3] http://www.google.com/imgres?q=World+of+Warcraft&um=1&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=905&tbm=isch&tbnid=GjPIiL_KDKlg2M:&imgrefurl=http://

• Sex Industry – Massive market – Extra sensatory simulation – Maintaining a long distance relationship – Dating Websites

[1] http://www.google.com/imgres?q=distance+relationship&um=1&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=905&tbm=isch&tbnid=n4dwmXsAL6K6vM:&imgrefurl=http://www.longdistancelover.net/ [2] http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sexy+lady&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=3845l5038l0l5240l9l6l0l1l1l0l234l868l1.4.1l7l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw. [3] http://www.onlinedatinganxiety.com/eharmony-online-dating-service/

• Learning through experience

• Safety

• No repercussions

http://www.freesignage.com/osha_danger_signs.php

http://forteconsulting.wordpress.com/tag/70-20-10/

http://www.gizmag.com/go/3613/

• Location

• Personal attention

• education

• Religious experiences

http://isgodcatholic.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/was-the-last-supper-a-passover-seder/

• Flight Simulators • Parachuting Simulators

• Field Operation Simulators

• Virtual Reality Exposure

Therapy to help treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• Link

http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=3523

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-06/cutting-edge-virtual-reality-systems-could-help-soldiers-overcome-ptsd

• Can’t distinguish between virtual environments and reality

• Dulls imagination and creativity

• Numbs sympathetic feelings

• Creates interpersonal disconnections

[1] http://mmvr17.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/interview-with-dr-albert-rizzo-virtual-reality-therapy/

http://www.vortaloptics.com/blog/2011/01/the-disciplined-technophile/

• Up to now there is no alternative to life. • Life in the “real world” (Computer), or

death. • Processing Speed is keeping us behind. • Goal: eliminate all restrictions

–Virtual Reality is the only way to escape the laws bound by the universe.

– It will become the norm, the destiny.

"A bold scientist will be able to tap the contents of his mind and transfer them into the metallic lattices of a computer... At last the human brain, ensconced in a

computer, has been liberated from the weakness of the mortal flesh... It is in control of its own destiny and no

longer constrained in its span of years - such a life could live forever."

- Robert Jastrow

• http://www.123rf.com/photo_4050258_a-science-fiction-virtual-reality-network-abstract.html • http://science.dodlive.mil/2010/07/30/three-ways-virtual-reality-can-improve-military-training/ • http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=3523 • http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-06/cutting-edge-virtual-reality-systems-could-help-soldiers-overcome-ptsd • http://www.vortaloptics.com/blog/2011/01/the-disciplined-technophile/ • [1] http://mmvr17.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/interview-with-dr-albert-rizzo-virtual-reality-therapy/ • http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/other-gadgets/virtual-reality.htm

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