Oculus Rift is a cyclops-like mask that you put in front of your eyes. It replaces the entire field of view with recorded or live moving images. The sound has been ordinary earbuds in your ears. The experience envelops the person completely and usually perceived as very real. It could be a breathtaking roller-coaster ride, an informative walking tour of a museum, a flight from a pilot’s perspective, attack or just about anything that goes to show moving pictures. The point is that the intense experience something real, even though it is not.
When Facebook recently added up $ 2 billion for the company behind Oculus Rift began to even the most stubborn skeptics believe that it is time for the big VR breakthrough. The rumors are sizzling on the near launch for the consumer market.
The 21-year-old Oculus Rift-founder and expectant billionaire Palmer Luckey has big plans :
– Oculus will change humanity, he says.
Spelindustrin lies of course in the starting blocks. Their developers will find on one new application after the other. Sony has its own “mask” and again to its upcoming Playstation 4 Even the engineering industry has woken up to the new VR technology. Obscura Digital’s office in Sweden was the first in the world with a commercial Oculus Rift application for the trucking industry. Although art and science worlds hangs on with applications and experiments that more than a few other points to Palmer Luckeys predictions will materialize.
New Technology hits Be Another Lab during an event at the MU art museum in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. The group consists of six people scattered across the world. One lives in Barcelona, one in São Paulo, two in Belfast, one in Berlin, one in New York and one in New Mexico. Everyone has some kind of academic background mixed with great art and interest in technology.
They focus on projects that examine people’s empathy and based on the idea that when you see the world through someone else’s eyes, so does the understanding of the other’s view of reality. They collaborate closely with brain scientists, psychologists and conflict researchers.
– We use neuroscience techniques “fooling” the brain’s perception of the see and experience. What is new is that we do it with the help of Oculus Rift which generate a much stronger sense of that it is a reality, says Philippe Bertrand, a member of the artist group.
I project which they present at MU they invite visitors to consider how it is to have a different gender than their own. It begins with the volunteers to go into a room where there are two booths with mirrors. Then, he or she undress as much as is comfortable and settle down on a stool in one booth. In the second box sits an equally undressed person of the opposite sex. Both are provided with their own Oculus Rift display with two cameras at eye level on the outside.
signals from the camera goes to the other’s display mask. In this way one sees themselves in the other’s body and vice versa. Exactly what you see of the other depends on where one is veering. A woman who sees her legs look likely a few hairy mansben. A man looking at his spending looks a few female breast. But to begin with you have to learn to interact. When one raises his arm must keep up with the other and so on.
– This is a kind of real-time agreement between the two users . A leading and a following and so shifts the man who is doing this or that. In the end, the synchronization works quite perfect and the feeling of being in the other’s body is growing stronger, says Philippe Bertrand.
After several similar events in many different countries have shown that most people who tested the virtual sex change is more conservative and shy than they perhaps intended.
– We thought it would mostly be a matter of examining sex category but it turned out that it also is very much about empathy. When you see yourself as another person, you do not invade the person’s body. Instead, there is a mutual respect and are tested cautiously and jointly forward, says Philippe Bertrand.
The group also tried to let the therapists change places with their patients, parents with their children, men and women with different skin color and wheelchair users have danced ballet. In another experiment, people from Barcelona could see themselves in the body of an immigrant from Senegal. They also got to hear the story of his childhood, his passion for dance, how he ended up in Barcelona and how it is to live on the street. The project attracted attention and one day became To Be Another Lab approached by UN adviser Daanish Masood who wanted to discuss working together. Today he is a member of the group, and together they develop a rather grandiose project for peace.
Simply put, it’s about a better understanding between Somali clan groups who have moved abroad and brought with him the national conflicts in the new country.
– The United Nations is very interested in these exile groups because their words have great power in their homeland. They live abroad, they are active on the internet, they write blogs and quite often what they write through to the people of Somalia at a high level. They reach far better than the official media in Somalia, says Christian Cherene, specialist in cognitive systems and interactive media in Be Another Lab.
In a first step, the group will test their systems with Oculus Rift along with a group of Somalis in Cardiff in Wales. Where should you get to step into his neighbor’s body and feel what it is to be a person from another clan. The idea is that this will eventually increase understanding between the different clans and that they in turn shall forward these insights in their blogs and other radio stations in Somalia. In the best cases, it can lead to a small group of people far from home influences and possibly mitigate conflicts in their home country.
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