ain't this wierd?

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25399135-5014239,00.html

hmm... they're trying to use smell, in video games now

one step closer to virtual reality, now they only have to get graphics that look like they're real and taste.

ah yes, if they incorporated that into wii games like force unleashed and twilight princess that would be almost like virtual reality

no, i mean graphics that look REAL, you know, graphics with minimal difference from real life. and maybe add some non deadly pain or something as an option

that would kinda ruin in my opinion the pain that is

Electrocution is an idea!

Or just vibration.

as one book that i read (sci fi) that had virtual reality it could be a numbing-tingling feeling in the part of the body that received injury

edit: by the way Half-Life is awesome

yeah, just a tingling feeling would be fine.

yeah, i started readin this manga, it's called Identity, anyway the story mainly takes place in this virtual world where the player feel a tingling sensation instead of pain...

which is perfect! have it sorta like the wii, but with a gun... oh and i was reading this other book and they used a helmet for complete virtual reality...and in another one there was a holographic room, but this guy in it could sleep on it and everything...

As long as they don't encorporate proper touch and smell, VR should be fine.

thing is you're playin inside the house, you set something on fire and the everyone in the house will get pissed when they realise that it was from the game

i doubt they would make it that powerful.

you're probably right, but you never know

Yeah.
But knowing developers, they will go OTT

gee, that's too bad

Cold or Swine Flu.
Which one MNIM?

So you don't have the sense of smell?
that sucks.

so i take it your taste is messed up aswell?

Deoran Drages wrote:thing is you're playin inside the house, you set something on fire and the everyone in the house will get pissed when they realise that it was from the game

Earthdeath wrote:i doubt they would make it that powerful.

i think it will be more personal... you know, like a suit for touch, smell and so on. It could be gold for the military, you could experience a battlefield without dying, but still get all the experience you'd get from being there in reality. Extreme pain without permanent consequences would be good for that too. You know, so you dont do a frontal attack on a main battle tank with an assault rifle thinking you're going to respawn after getting blown to pieces

yeah, they'd be great simulators to train soldiers

me naam is m wrote:

Deoran Drages wrote:http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25399135-5014239,00.html

hmm... they're trying to use smell, in video games now

ah great, this will be utterly useless to me.

...i can't smell anything...

sad to hear that




the simulation with taste, pain etc. is a very nice idea, gaining exp while not dying, now thats a golden ticket

Stryker wrote:as one book that i read (sci fi) that had virtual reality it could be a numbing-tingling feeling in the part of the body that received injury

edit: by the way Half-Life is awesome

Enders Game?

ah, that is a good book! i can relate many parts of that book to my own life lol. and no, if you got hit in the simulator in enders game, you got frozen.

i wonder what happens if the game gets screwed up and you were playing it just then?

(you're obviously screwed)