Arquivo para February, 2014
Environment of total immersion
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Feb
As researchers of Advanced Micro Devices claim, a version of a holodeck that is shaped like a dome, covered with wall-to-wall projectors, and uses surround sound, increased reality, and other Technologies are ready to recreate the real world.
The US Army Research Laboratory has created a floor, called an omnidirectional treadmill, which enables users to seemingly wander while it moves and while they stay in place.
Holodecks similar to the simulated-reality rooms seen on the film “Star Trek” but only will be available by 2024, according to these researchers, says a report in the New York Times blog.
Computer companies join with Hollywood and video-game factories want to turn something that is still only entertainment, into something closer to reality, by enabling users to see things and allow people to move around living rooms and become part of the story.
The technology can enable for example, those gamers in one stage, inside a game computer-simulated in the Yankee Stadium, to pick up a computer-simulated bat and hear the shouting of a computer-simulated crowd.
Microsoft has built the IllumiRoom and Lightspace, while the University of Illinois at Chicago has created CAVE2, this CAVE technologies are available and are well known.
