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Feel the fear when real objects meld with VR (CNET News)

2017-06-13
oh my god I see drones heading towards us this was the first time I actually felt like I had been in a VR world economy Wow okay they want me to get the gun and go after the drones the fact that I was picking up a gun the fact that I'm I'm opening the door and I see it open as I open it it tricks my brain and I felt afraid of falling down when I get to the boiler I felt the heat on my face and then I reached out and I actually touched the bar that was in between me and the boiler when I first tried the plank I wasn't sure I could get across it and I had to remind myself no I'm actually on the ground I'm not somewhere up in the sky about to fall down okay now you gotta get to the construction elevator at the end of the ledge there's a motor with an eccentric on it so it vibrates you feel like there's a motor that's moving you use a fan blowing on you from above so you feel like you're moving up because the air is blowing down you can experience things without needing controllers all the items that the people have to interact with need to be tracked and so we have beacons on each one of the items that they pick up they have LEDs that talk to the cameras that are watching very similar to motion capture technology for moviemaking system knows what it is and so it can render it for what you're seeing and where it is in space in the virtual world you can remove your headset now
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