Friday, September 17, 2010

XXIst century's icons & myths mapping our daily roaming en el Laberinto de la soledad #42 (Virtual reality)

The notion of virtual loneliness remains shapeless but it is reported by Euronews that new steps towards virtual entertainment have been recently made:

"Virtual reality is entering a new era of touch-sensitive tiles and immersive animations. Researchers in Barcelona have created a unique space at the cutting edge of digital immersion".

PRESSENCCIA project aims at studying how to create a plausible - from a brain's perspective- virtual environment. "To do that Paul’s team had to understand how our brains construct our vision of the world. “Imagine what we see is sort of rapidly jumping about – that would not be a believable experience for us. So that means one thing we have really tried to engineer here also from a psychological perspective is how do I feed this continuity of expectations that our brain is generating about the world. But I don’t only have to do it for myself, for one observer, I have to do it for everybody in this space" ".

The study becomes more interesting when you learn that experiences consist also in being immersed in a "virtual bar". Virtual masturbation is unfortunately not at the schedule.

Click on the click to be clicked to the virtual future.

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