Jeff Rayner
Jul 26, 20202 min
Updated: Jul 27, 2020
Haptic gloves - check
Haptic bodysuit - check
Omni treadmill - check
VR headset - check
Large Virtual worlds - check
Haptic gloves - Need to improve finger tracking to make them fully immersive and error free. See Bendlabs and HaptX
Haptic bodysuit - Teslasuit pretty much has everything in the movie and is available today (see my pic above)
Omni treadmill - see infinadeck. We are close to having full immersion walkable environments. Need some tweaking to get to the ease of use in the movie, yet not far away
VR headset - need improvements to fidelity, weight, size and connect-ability. However, we are close on this one and within a few years similar headsets are absolutely achievable and internet speeds for large data downloads like 5G
Large Virtual worlds - this is perhaps the biggest area of needed improvement. While we are close, in the movie they take us over the top in terms of realism, and immersion. They have worlds within worlds. And all are realistic. When we get to this level, it will be pretty scary as how do we differentiate the real world from virtual?