Is the misunderstanding that goes too much reality?
Did you experience VR?Recently, the number of places where you can experience it has increased, and kits that can easily enjoy VR on smartphones have appeared.VR is something that you want to continue forever when you experience really interesting content.I often see a dystopia setting of living in a virtual space in a movie, but that may be a reality.
This time, Giz Mode Japan has experienced "UNLIMITED CORRIDOR" developed by Unity Technologies JAPAN joint company and Keigo Matsumoto of Hirose, Tanigawa and Narumi Laboratory of the University of Tokyo.
In this lab, UNLIMITED CORRIDOR was developed as part of that, saying, "We are conducting research on this kind of interface technology from various angles, based on virtual reality technology."Translated into Japanese, "Unlimited corridor".
In reality, I just walked around the circular set, but I made an illusion that it was a straight road in the virtual world seen from VR, and created a corridor that could keep walking infinitely.
This video is when you actually experienced it.Looking from the side, it feels like this.
In the VR, such a sight spread in front of me.
First, go to the rooftop of the building by elevator.When you get off, there is a blowing aisle.There is no fence beside, so if you step off your feet, it's crazy.If you look forward, you will find a red balloon first.Proceeding the aisle and getting this balloon is the mission of this content.
This is a comparison of the route in the virtual world and the real route.The blue moving line is a route in the virtual world, that is, the route of a head -mounted display is going to walk.The red and rounded line represents a real route.The virtual world route is bent sideways, but this is also reproduced by bending the middle of the real circular set.
The virtual world seen in Unlimited Corridor is a scarier than expected because it is a high altitude setting called the rooftop of the building.Also, it seems that you are walking a little bit of a video, but this is due to the illusion that you are walking straight in the VR world, but in reality you are walking around.However, this fluttering feeling is convinced of the brain as if it is blowing even in the wind because the setting of a high place is not well balanced.
Looking at the photos, it seems that it is a murderous scene, but by combining not only the visuals but also the touch using hands and feet, I was able to feel the point of contact with the reality that was not in VR content so far.The immersion requires a resolution, but the effects of tactile sensation are even greater.
What was actually prepared was a VR head set, a backpack, and a circular set.
Why a backpack?As you might think, there is a personal computer inside, and it is connected to the VR headset to process it.
And this is a circular set that is the route when walking in reality.The photo is the same as the set prepared this time.
Actually, walk around while touching the wall of this circular set by hand.
This antenna on the VR headset works with many cameras located around the circular set to recognize your position in the virtual world.
In addition, there is a leap motion in front of the VR headset, and you can recognize your hands in the virtual world by holding your hand in front of you.This makes it possible to use not only vision but also tactile to make the brain illusion by recognizing their hands in the virtual world and touching the walls.
What I felt when I experienced this time was that by increasing the number of misunderstandings such as hands and feet in addition to vision, the misunderstanding of the brain appears in actual behavior.
In this study, the movement of walking around the circular set is misunderstood as if walking along a straight road, but on the contrary, it is possible to misunderstand as if it is spinning around the straight road.It seems that there is a possibility that horror content will be created in the future, but if you make a horror with this, you can trap in the world for the rest of your life ...?Oh ... hell ...
In the future, in the bright future, it will be possible to create a thrilling content with a small space and a small cost if it is applied in the entertainment field.Conversely, in the dystopia -like future, it seems that it is not strange that some people who spend their lifetime in the VR world come out.The only thing that can be said in the future is very exciting.Now let's look forward to what kind of future is waiting.
Source: Hirose / Tanigawa / Narumi Laboratory
(K. Yoshioka)