Reality Check - What Does the Oculus Rift Do To Your Brain?

Hey Cam,

I'm writing a paper on the oculus rift, Any chance i can get ahold of some of your Sources

Thanks

So both of our eyes see the same image while wearing an OR?

We will get there when we get there, and we will get there. It is said in the future that the difference between the virtual world and the real world will be indistinguishable.

All I could think about is the "Ready Player One" book by Ernest Cline.

Some of these things need to evolve, , but It's starting...

O - Oculus Rift
A - ?
S - Steam controller (haptic feedback)
I - Internet
S - ?

What lies in the future??

This is the beginning of getting the masses to understand that the world they currently live in is a "dream" or virtual reality of matter. We live in a holographic universe and the mind is using the brain as a virtual simulator to generate experiences for the sake of evolution to a higher dimension. Einstein said in this new type of physics (quantum) there is not enough room for both the field and matter, for matter is the illusion and the field must be the only reality. Math doesn't lie and quantum physics is not radical opinion.

@peteyboi29 @Jam133 Made me spit my cola through my nose. Thanks for that.

After watching 3 episodes of this show, this is now hands down my favorite gaming related show on the internet. This is the thinking gamer's show, this is the PC gamer's show. Thanks for making this!

This will be very good for people unknowingly recruited into the unmanned Predator Drone program

i think its a great idea :) but there are some truly terrifying applications for this type of tech. in the wrong hands it could be a torture device, a prison, a means to inflict terrible physiological damage.

and there are plenty of people / agency's with wrong hands out there ...

I just really hope that even if this kind of technology becomes more popular, it's not going to result in ALL games being first person. I like my on-screen avatars, thank you.

Do we really want a virtual world that's 100% immersive? How will we be able to differentiate the real from the unreal? If it's real to all our senses what's to say that's not a reality in and of itself? Or something similarly inception-esque.

Oh man! I think one day they are going to make some console that will convert the whole room into the Game World so you are literally in it . Imagine playing Call of Duty or any other FPS on it :o

Not close to Sword art Online. I know it's an anime but however. It'll be cool if it's like that anime. But too much money for some virtual reality i don't reall like it but however it's my opinion I will see it in the future, but for this we need powerfull pc ...

Well we will get true VR. I don't know how long it will take, but for now, we need the entire computing power of Google to make the world 'real'. And that simply costs WAY too much.

I'm still concerned on how it affects your vision.

Awesome! Only disappointing thing is its not available yet..

quick question; what happens when one uses this thing drunk seeing a two-fold image? has anyone tried this?

@spector000 anything short of that is called " progress"

i'll tell you what i think.
i think, THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME !

this can be developed into something MUCH, MUCH more than what it is now ( 'now' also, it is awesome ^_^ )

Zabardast. Everyone brings different topics for their gameshows but you have nailed it. Nice one

Oculus Rift is a start for something potentially great. All we need now is more time and money. I think within a decade, we'll be able to get stunning graphics and incredible response for full immersion. Maybe the Oculus Rift will replace the T.V for gamers one day.

Looking forward to enter the Matrix....or are we there already? I'm confused.

Looks good and if it has further applications other than games already, I hope the research and development continues to be supported/funded.

i think all the demos that is were shown graphically sucked . this would have hampered immersion .i do get why the graphics werent that great though

SAO/ALO/GD SOOON!

This looks amazing.

And this is why video game science is awesome.

Soon, the machines will take over.......

The prototype unit that I've played around with is very cool - but not near the point where you could "get lost" in.

However, I think the consumer version, coupled with something like the OMNI could really cause you to question reality. It's an exciting (and frightening) aspect.

Great Vid!

Everyone should read the Otherland books by Tad Williams. Very cool virtual reality story!

I love this guys episodes, this is definitely a really interesting video....

frankly if u hook some stimuli to the base of the brain and that tech was so high (think matrix) the person won't know the difference between realilty or fiction

in fact the only indicator would be the body in reality degrading from lack of food, light, water...etc, now would the brain realize this is up for debate.... perhaps it will "die" no one will know until we make true VR

melt it from awsomeness ??!!!

Shit, this one's going to take me a few views to wrap my head around.

If I don't die like Sword Art Online, then this game is too easy.

“All our knowledge begins with the senses...” -Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

I'm a Game design major and they had gotten an oculus rift dev kit today and when I demoed it, it was kind of off putting and disorientating and I could only look through it for a short period of time before it started making me sick to my stomach but still very amazing. The biggest problems I had with it was the resolution (800 X 600), and the frame rate was kind of bad, but they are making an HD version so I hope these problem will be fixed.

Touch, taste, sight, sound, smell. Of the 5 senses, we can really only achieve sight and sound reliably at the moment, barring some kind of extreme smell machine wafting odours at you. Things like motion can sorta be achieved with things like an omni-directional treadmill, and immersion increased further with motion cameras, or things like a gun controller. I'd imagine that's about what's attainable right now at any rate, until our understanding of physics allows for the holodeck at any rate, or we develop methods to, instead of fooling our exterior sense, try to hook into our brain and fool it directly. Implanted brain chips here we come! Err... hmm... what with hacking, that's probably not the best idea.

This device contains flashing images :D