Dive devices in VR

In the wake of Ready Player One and the appearance of cryptocurrency VR, startups decided to superficially add information about some real and invented devices of complete or deep immersion in artificially created worlds.

TL; DR (5 pages): VR is only developing, in this decade the system of complete immersion will not appear on free sale, and there is nowhere else to plunge. You can always dream.

Today we have several sets with hand controllers and a strict binding to the game platform: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. They have no significant differences in the framework of the topic, so we will combine them under the definition of the “current generation VR”: 3 points of tracking movement and interaction with the environment (helmet/glasses and 1 controller for each hand). You can add leg trackers and t. p., But they are optional and are not included in the standard set.

For the immersion effect, there may be enough helmet with controllers, nevertheless, in the list of shortcomings that prevent the physical feeling of being in the world displayed through lenses, there are: there are:
– low image resolution (pixels are still noticeable)
– Small viewing angle (as if you were looking through binoculars)
– the lack of tracking of the whole body (the virtual avatar tries to maintain the situation relative to several vectors and does not repeat the bending of the body, similarly with facial animation)
– lack of feedback in the form of imitation of touch, wind, return of weapons, etc. D. (simple vibration is clearly not enough)
– wires or discharge of batteries (require attention to the real world)

Crossing K VR of the future I’ll start, perhaps, with the works of writers, the devices of which I consider to be reference (Gusenka syndrome). Perhaps there are other works unknown to me with more detailed and realistically described devices. Still, go through Skyrim faster than to get acquainted with the whole literature.
The next section may contain small spoilers

Ready Player One (Novel, movie)

The sociopath and fan of the game industry of the 80s James Halliday created Oasis, a virtual paradise in the decaying world of the future, VR ecosystem. Having fully aged, the creator launches the event: you will find Easter Eastern Railways, you will get all my treasures. Rat Runs start in both realities. Our hero, living in the ghetto, joins the race.

Ernest Cline created a realistic picture of the future, described the work of various VR devices and environment, settled the hero in the slums, added a little romance and lubricated all this with references to the culture of the late last century. The book became a bestseller and gained fans, perhaps, all ages. The film must repeat and multiply success.
Nicknames Parzival and Art3mis are still free?

Standard set for entering Oasis consists of Visor and gloves.
The visor has low -power lasers drawing the image on the retina, filling out the entire field of view. Tactile gloves allow you to feel virtual objects and surfaces, you can move using gestures.

An example of an expensive assembly of the immersion system in VR:
Adjustable tactile chair, fixed on two robotic hands, which are able to move it around 4 axes, allowing to somersault, fly, fall, etc. D. A tactile feedback suit works in conjunction with the chair, covering the whole body and revealing in the right places to refer to the need. Feedback is more likely to simulate blows and shocks, so the virtual waterfall is not felt realistic enough. The costume covers the exoskeleton that creates resistance if necessary. Separately placed a detergent module with a reserve suit. The speakers are placed throughout the room, there is an installation for generating odors. Underfoot an invired treadmill capable of changing the relief and slope. For special entertainment, you can order an anatomically correct doll of any floor with realistic skin, muscle simulation and other options, depending on the wishes.
Tactile chair can transform into bed. The II program will help with automation, the voice and behavior of which can be configured.

Further development of immersion systems in Oasis is a small spherical room with a tactile armchair suspended under the ceiling on a robotic hand, instead of a treadmill, a rotating room itself.

From the inside Oasis It is the Rubik universe, divided by 27 sectors, 10 light hours will be needed to intersect each, there are spaceships, fortresses and paid teleports. One sector is dedicated to star wars, others have magic, steampunk, or all together. Avatar has one life, at death, the player loses everything, there is a level system and pumping. At the same time, in the oasis there are many working and educational worlds and locations in which the damage is disconnected.

According to the above features, OASIS can be considered the goal that developers and players strive for, the prototypes of devices and full -fledged VR worlds are already emerging.

Armada (Novel)

World -class developers create games in which the pilots of the combat drones are opposed by the race of evil aliens. The main character nudes into the interceptor simulator. It suddenly turns out that games are not games, but pilots training programs to combat real aliens. To quotes of great people from Star Wars, Star Trek and other fantastic films, players should protect the Earth.

Ernest Klein’s next book did not become as successful as the first. A rather stupid enumeration of real developers like EA, from the style of the narrative and ending, I have decently bombed. The rights to the film adaptation were bought, no more.

VR devices are inconspicuous: helmet and analogues for aircraft systems. In general, you can play with any device and type of control – smartphone, keyboard, gamepad.

Sword Art Online (Ranobe, Anime)

The Japanese evil genius Kayaba Akihiko created a complete immersion neuroshlet, and then Mmorpg for him. After a beta test, on the day of the release, the master announces that all 10 thousand players will remain in this world for permanent residence to the Game Over, and so that no one would show, the brain burner is activated in the neuroshl.
Then go Kitiro, Asuna, Drama, 16.5 and other anime.

SAO describes the fantasies https://jackpot-village.co.uk/ of animeshnikov and other dreamers, it is difficult not to meet a player with the nickname Kirito or Asuna in an online game (he himself was among them), and in VrChat you can visit the main character’s room, wander around an empty location, fight the boss, but it looks relatively terrible and requires the work of the imagination.

Neuroshlet – Dream, killer, guide to the beautiful world. VR helmet of the future, a complete immersion device. Transfers electromagnetic signals directly into the brain, completely blocking the connection with the body, which gives complete synchronization with a virtual avatar (movement, feelings, smells, emotions). The image is rendered with a device with some restrictions like using LOD. Has a microwave mode for holding players in the game.
The main drawback – during the game it turns into a drying vegetable.

Amusfer – In fact, safe neuroshlet. Easier, less, automatically turns off the user with deviations in sensors (with stress). Does not completely block the signals of the body, allowing you to notice the reality in the game.
Soul Translator – interacts with the user at the level of FlUntlight (souls, consciousness?), renderite not by polygons, but by the memories of connected users, hence the detailed variable world, skin hair and other possibilities. The created fantastic world is felt by reality. The server consumes a huge amount of energy. Such is the dubious fantasy of the author.
Brain Implant Chip – Probably described in the continuation of history. In reality, studies and tests on the direct connection of the brain with electronics and the network are also held, even Ilon Musk founded Neuralink.

Accel World (Ranobe, Anime)

The princess of the school approaches the stunted spherical chief hero and offers to “accelerate”. Acceleration is a game that transfers consciousness into a multiple accelerated world, at first glance, it is a fighting game and accessible only to children for technical reasons. Slow down time, wet science fiction, harem.

The parallel novel from the author of SAO, the action takes place, practically, in the same universe, only ten years later.

Neurolinker – A computer that is worn on the neck works with the brain at the quantum level, everything can: creating an image before gaze, messaging, monitoring a pet, launching games, one of which is the same, accelerating consciousness 1000 times and sending realism to another universe.
Brain Implant Chip – a chip in the brain, the predecessor of a neurolinker, due to the specifics of work and possible use, was prohibited.
The author did not want to paint details of the work, giving preference to the expanding harem, which also blows fantastic.

Log Horizon (Ranobe, Anime)

Players sucks into their characters from a regular MMORPG. No one knows anything, there is no connection with the real world, except for memories that are fragmentedly showing at death and washing. The plot is quite interesting from the point of view of VR, but the diving devices are not mentioned.

The signing of the works of a pair of authors something dragged on, I move to reality And I’ll start with virtual environment. It is still very limited by computers’ capacities, even classic MMOs rarely cope with finding hundreds of players in one location, not to mention detailed interaction.

The most popular VR game, in which a minimum of classic gameplay and naming the game is not entirely correct. Various ways of communicating with other characters, playing the role of your avatar, many user worlds, including uganda. Many people bought VR devices just for the sake of this game, while others come in, having a regular monitor, and try to enjoy this social world.
Of course, the virtual chat is still far from the ideal – you can not touch another character, a minimum of interactivity, the graphics are quite simple.

According to the creators, Decentraland is the first VR platform that users own. Interactive world, into which you can get through a VR device or browser. Users buy land for cryptocurrency, equip their location, casino, moon -park and provide other players. The right to own and content is stored by Ethereum Blockchain, IPFS is used to exchange.
Technology is still not common enough for everyone (and me) their work is clear. At first glance, the project looks interesting, its own currency to maintain, decentralization. The platform is still in the process of creating at the stage of pre-alpha.

Platform for 3D/VR websites and objects based on the same blockchain. I will name this primarily a city in which shops with digitized real goods are created, which can be considered and tried on (on a mannequin/avatar). The project has not yet been launched, a demo and an inspector are available, in some future we can expect the implementation of virtual stores and a residential area for users. Cryptocurrency is used for purchases, is a reward for miner resources. Among partners there are large manufacturers of goods.
I learned about Markspace (after which I decided on this text) from Shamov Dmitry, who spent parallels with SAO, but they had a little in common.

CAPPASITY (artken)
3D/VR ecosystem based on blockchain, planned for the creation, storage, distribution of content, preserving copyright.

As you can see, the created ecosystems have so far aimed at creating content and making money. Competition and uncertain status of cryptocurrencies also require attention. For the usual leisure and entertainment, there are a virtual desktop and individual VR applications.

Devices and prototypes

Today, many companies are developing gloves to interact with the virtual world. Among them are Captoglove, ExoGlove, Gloveone, Manus Vr Glove, Senso VR Gloves, Oculus Glove, Haptx Gloves. Basically, they capture the movement of the fingers, some have a tactile connection. DEXMO, exoskeleton gloves that provide power feedback are somewhat distinguished. Development continues, so plastic controllers remain the standard.

To move the legs, there are platforms like Virtuix Omni, Cyberith Virtualizer, Kat Walk. The latter, although it continues to improve, is available for purchase at the price of several computers with VR helmets. Unfortunately, the platform device does not allow you to lie down, which is easy to carry out only with a helmet.

Among the tactile costumes, Hardlight Suit and Teslasuit are distinguished, inaccessible to purchase.
Hardlight It is a vest covering the torso and bends of the hands, tracking and feedback work in these areas.

Teslasuit – Full costume with motion capture, tactile recoil, temperature change. Favorite.

In the coming years, for a lot of money, you can assemble a set for immersion in the VR, similar to what you see in Ready Player One, only there will be no oasis on the other side of the lens, also many games simply do not support something except controllers with a helmet.
For physically limited people, immersion in VR can be incomplete or impossible, so you should hope for the development of technologies in direct interaction with the brain and once SAO can become a real VRMMO.

Yesterday we dreamed that it becomes available today. We will continue to look with optimism at tomorrow.

The best comments

Great material. After watching, SAO himself dug in the VR topic and tried to figure out how a neuroshlet could work.
With today’s technology “immersion” they forget about the need for a new way to manage the game and character. Management by the power of thought. There are already prototypes and it seems like they can be purchased, but there are no full -fledged movements in this direction. You can control a drone, a toy machine, and a mouse cursor on the screen. Although work on the neuro interface continues.
I think all players are dreaming of such a future game. I hope the near future.

If only there was a player’s defense from an evil genius as in CAO
I would even say a forced open from the server, so that the player at least ate and does not die of exhaustion, because there are such people who forget/score on this

ps. Perhaps someone watched the CAO, it was the series, missed full -length last year “Masters of the sword online: serial rank” + should be the 3rd season this year

In the Ready Player One, the Memorial is a realistic picture of the future? seriously? 🙂
In this work, as for me, the idea of ​​the oasis itself is of greatest interest, and certainly not the world of the future 🙂
BUT! Let’s imagine an oasis not as a very cool game of all time, allegedly taken by the most cool game :), but as the Internet of the future itself !, Almost completely visualized.
Imagine:
– You put on a helmet and gloves. Let there be only these 2 devices, for simplification, although in fact, xs how all this will look in the future (after all, once a computer. The mouse seemed as unusually outlandish :)).
– plunge on the Internet, where all sites have visual embodiment (at the same time, of course, some part remains and in the usual form – manuscript). Suppose some simple chat is presented in the form of a small pub (too primitive comparison :), I agree, but it’s easier to perceive it) where you can choose your avatar and chat almost live 🙂 with anyone, while feeling it all as a real visit to any place.
Want to create your chat/site/something similar? Please, by this time I think there will already be such an instrumentation (software similar to the current programs for 3D modeling).
You think it’s all too far? Then look at how much has changed over the past 30-40 years for ordinary people, and not for science.

Very good and powerful material, on himself, only a little praise relative to the BP-chat: there are touches and dragging objects, directly from the controllers of the eyepiece or viva, but they do not always work correctly if you look at the videos of this author, you can get an approximate idea of ​​how it tries to work.

Digent, The first two parts of the SAO liked. Then the plot rolled up. But the full -length “Order Raning” pleasantly surprised me. Therefore, for the third season there is hope.
The game SAO on PSP was held. Then the expanded version of the Hollow Fragment. What a sin to hide, I dreamed of playing in such a mmorpg, with a risk to life in case of zero hp. Neuroshlet, which transmits electromagnetic signals directly into the brain, completely blocking the connection with the body, which gives complete synchronization with a virtual avatar, this is really super. But it should have a system that monitors the real health of a gamer, which does not allow to play too much, forced to take breaks to rest from virtual reality, and nutrition.:))

The plot slopped down, because first of all the idea lured.
If ordinary life is quite boring, then for the sake of risk and new sensations, people will go to a lot: gambling, racing, mercenaries. SAO, if the details were not hidden, it is not particularly distinguished.
I already wrote about the Amusfer and the sensors. After the incident, the VR began to be better monitored, the survivors were in special conditions. In reality, multifunctional devices receive many sensors, everything goes to this.
“Breaks” are quite subjective, a simple reminder or timer will be enough, any restriction will cause a negative. Dependence, you need to fight differently.

“Still, go through Skyrim faster than to get acquainted with all the literature.”. And I, by the way, was somehow very fast, I was somehow surprised that this dragon is really the last. But this is after Oblivion and Mordorovind, so, probably, in the order of things.

Well, now I’ll blink the text, of course, I join the thank.

The developer (and writer) wanted to create a living virtual world, the real danger was a suitable solution. The Amusfer is given a lot of attention to health sensors.
Asians periodically appear in the news after continuous hobbies games. Also, some streamers spend about a day in VRChat. Current VR harp are not monitored by time and health, except that the batteries in controllers are discharged.

I watched the first SAO seasons, after reading the books of anime and the filler film is not so interesting, but I would have watched alishization.

Thanks for the interesting reading!
In the current state of technology, I personally have never seen anything better than a new elite. The game is built in such a way that the player for almost complete immersion does not need to wait for technical breakthroughs: a helmet, Hotas with optional pedals and, for the richest, a chair with drives for trips and imitating the fast execution. The gameplay assumes that the player sits in a chair and does not remove his hands from the controls, therefore the sensations of the most “immersion”.

The main plot quest in Skyrim is quite short, I agree. Only it is easy to forget about him during tasks from guilds and its completion does not mean a full passage of the game.

Thank you for the comments, I first thought that the text of interest was almost never

No, well, the text is thorough, here without question. I have never been very interested in the issue, because for me almost everything is new, which means useful. Unless Decentraland is familiar with tokensil. Well, VrChat heard the out of my ear. And so, for me it’s just TES – the first stimulus, because I first reacted to him 🙂

Oh, no, nagzz … I seemed to learn about VrChat with his video, but it became impossible to watch further: constant screams, incomprehensible gestures to attract attention in the style. Jameskii is more interesting to watch and listen. In general, there are a lot of streamers (YouTuber), especially those related to Uganda, You Know.
The player can interact with objects (cubes, buttons), one outstretched hand works on the PC, but the characters do not conflict with each other, pass through and through. He shot at you, you fell, just like in a children’s game without physical contact. Imagination and playing the role.
Indirect contact, by the way, is. For example, if one got into the car, the other took this car and launched 100m: D

Yes, but it is inaccessible to anyone who wants to be for reasonable money. The elite can also virtualize without a helmet through external trackers of the look and tilt of the head, projectors and cockpit. It will cost more than a computer with a VR helmet.