Ready Player One: virtual reality haptics, digital economies, and optical trickery

Episode #153 | 2018.07.31

Show Notes

Fandom

Identity according to interests. Fiction as personal and social mirror. Cultures and subcultures and super-niches.

The “Stacks”

Ad-hoc city large-scale construction. Kowloon Walled City.

Virtual Reality immersion technology

VR treadmills vs slippy-feet (Virtuix Omni). Looking silly. Scaling and translation from real-world input to virtual worlds. Manual and body haptics. Simulating moistness. Nard-stimulation for good and ill.

VR spatial awareness

Directional trickery in virtual reality. Tricking people into experiencing smaller real-world spaces as much larger in virtual reality. Saccade-driven Redirected Walking for VR.

Resolution of virtual worlds

Pixel densities and optical foci. Continuity of experience and detection of the difference between virtual and simulated worlds. Finding the clever “hacks” that will enable us to more deeply immerse ourselves in VR experiences.

Sharding

Virtual world scale and sharding vs mon-worlds.Virtu

Value systems

Real virtual economies and responsibility.

Links!

Ready Player One: iTunes | Amazon
Ready Player One (the book) by Ernest Cline: iTunes | Amazon
Saccade-driven Redirected Walking for VR: YouTube
A Real Life Haptic Glove (Ready Player One Technology Today) by Smarter Every Day: YouTube
The Infinadeck Omnidirectional Treadmill by Smarter Every Day: YouTube
Kowloon Walled City interactive feature: WSJ
The Brookhaven Experiment: Steam