Sense of Presence: The Future of Virtual Reality | News | Unreal Engine

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1. What is the spinning thing at the beginning and the end of the video?

2. Been dreaming about this day for years! VR is the future people! 🙂

3. I'm excited for both VR and AR but it will take over our world and the way we view it, both negatively and positively. I can see it now.

4. "go outside their house because they've been disabled" Lol more like just leave the house without having to

5. Unreal 4 with the HTC VIve is going to be the future. Also, nice haircut Palmer ; )

6. vr is cool if it's microsoft hololens imo, closed helmet's not so free as opened, or something like doing nintendo with 3ds technology

7. Palmer Luckey: "Ultimate goal is to make VR as real as possible; because, once you can do that, there's not really any need to perfect anything else."

   I love the idea of enabling the creation of and interaction with virtual worlds that appear to be as close to real as possible, hence I can only agree with Palmer's "ultimate goal". However, his rationale is shallow and naive. What does he imply by "there's not really any need to perfect anything else" ?

8. But EDM sucks ass ?

9. So basically what that guy is saying is "Music is so cheap these days, we need to find new ways to make a buck. Also, music is so crap these days, we should make it suck less by adding flashy video content instead of actually making better music." Fuck this and their view of life. They're in it for the money not for grandmas sending messages to grandchildren. Whoever believes their bullshit deserves to be milked for every cent they earn, because they clearly do not know the value of money and they clearly don't appreciate real human connection. They just want to find new ways of using flashy tech. Humanity is doomed to eat itself up for the most trivial of shit, while taking with it the whole planet.

10. This video is what comes up of Facebook taking over the Oculus Rift. RIP Gaming as a main objective.

11. Cant wait for VR!…. titties…. VR titties…

12. And then people will hide in their own virtual world where everything is nice while the real world outside gets more poor each day because there are no ressources left and the climate keeps changing.

    I don't want to seem pessimistic but that could happen when people forget to care about the real word. Read the book "Ready Player One" from Ernest Cline to imagine what I mean.

    VR will also have MANY benefits but just keep that in mind!

    Have a nice week!

13. Wer ist auch wegen Germanletsplay hier??

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15. can anyone identify the music and composer of the music from the start and end of this video??? really beautiful music….

16. I'm really excited, even though I may or not have the chance of actually using Virtual Reality.
    We are exploring what today's technology enables us to accomplish, and how they do it. I agree that VR needs better hardware to fully realize, i agree that VR may make us less connected, but this video has mentioned VR experiments that might one day become fantastic solutions to problems we couldn't deal with, or creative ways of getting us engaged into different things in the virtual world.
    What a great time to witness the frontier of technology evolution…
    Now I really hope VR can reach into the unexplored lands of virtuality in the near future.

17. If something is virtual, by definition that isn't more human than any other alternative (in the context of what Lucky is saying). Of course there will be some very good applications of it, but the pathetic verbiage throughout this video… It's just a sales pitch, in fact the concept of "there's no need to perfect anything else once you have perfected virtual reality" is frankly a dangerous notion. Why go to Mars, we can just virtual it! Why pay attention to the problems or suffering of others in the real world when you are absorbed in the virtual one? It's taking the idea of digital flocks of birds in digital cages to an extreme.

    I am very worried by some of the comments here. I have no doubt that it will be fun to use and exciting, but surely you are capable of more distance and critical thought than that?

18. This is a comment I posted on reddit a few months back..

    Virtual Reality/ Augmented Reality(VR/AR) is going to explode. It's a beast barely held in check by the gates of business models and development. So many things are going to be almost unrecognizable in ten years because of VR/AR. Like radio, computers, television, media recording, personal computers and the internet, there once was a world without that kind of information transfer. The changes that will be wrought by VR/AR are almost too incomprehensible to believe in January of 2015. Watch for the "Time" magazine cover story on VR/AR that I prophesy is coming within one year. (It did in August 2015 and the cover image was profoundly goofy.) And this far exceeds the limitations of gaming. Consumer VR/AR will be societally transformative. Education, travel, design, medicine, social interaction, vocation, journalism, media entertainment, ESPECIALLY adult entertainment and internet browsers that we can't imagine today are just some of the applications that spring immediately to mind. We live, not for very much longer, in a pre-VR/AR world.

19. Except for the tiny niche of gaming (tiny in the overall sense) this won't happen until they give us cinematic realism. Current 1440 line displays aren't even close. Until 2160 or better is mainstream, all the other uses for this will die when the novelty wears off. I think even 2160 will fall significantly short.

    This ignores what Magic Leap might be doing because they apparently want us to ignore it by disclosing absolutely nothing of substance.

20. Amazing!!!

21. Obviously this whole thing doesn't work as a realtime communication tool. Do you want to put on Oculus Rift and have a VR chat with another person who is also wearing Rift?

22. This can make the world to an awesome place, but technology always has 2 sides. We will have really lovely things like meeting people who have diseases and can't go outside (Anime: Sword Art Online), "Real Life" Conversation via Skype, teaching our kids about the past. However, my bets are on: "the negative sides will outweigh the positive ones". In 5 years, when everyone can afford this, people will use it mainly for living in their houses playing video games all day long, watching adult-content, doing adult-content related stuff, old people will use this to gain their younger body back (movie: Exception). I hope it won't, but I see a cloudy future ahead… and the fact if that really happens, I can go back to this video and say… "I warned you guys… I warned you! <3

23. Amazing. favourited this video

24. 10-15 years from now in an elementary classroom: "okay class put on your VR sunglasses, were going through a medieval castle and explore the interiors!

    Kids from the future will have it good. 80's-90's kids will understand the weird struggle of learning history through crappy pics and that shitty cgi click adventures back then.

25. I can't wait to see Gun League running on this.

26. "Ultimate goal is to perfect virtual reality. Because, once you can do that, there's not really any need to perfect anything else."

    … same as …

    "640K ought to be enough for anybody."

    Even so, VERY impressive.

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