TheNoNamedOne
08-24-2007, 07:50 PM
Researchers have finally learned how to induce Out of Body Experiences. This could have positive implications in a wide range of areas.
"This is essentially a means of projecting yourself (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070823/ts_alt_afp/usscienceparanormal), a form of teleportation. If we can project people into a virtual character, so they feel and respond as if they were really in a virtual version of themselves, just imagine the implications.
"The experience of video games could reach a whole new level, but it could go much beyond that. For example, a surgeon could perform remote surgery, by controlling their virtual self from a different location."
Aside from how it could affect future gaming, or even training, if you were serverely handicapped you could enter a virtual world and all your sensations would be free from the limitations of your injuries.
If you were severely handicapped, would you rather have your real body wired so that your mind would be free? So, you could be laying in bed with an electronic football helmet with wires coming out of it connected to a computer and practically looking imobile and unconcious while family members went about their business around you as if you were just part of the furniture. But, in your virtual world and mind, you'd be living out an exciting life of activity -- whichever you chose, and feel it were a real life and world.
"This is essentially a means of projecting yourself (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070823/ts_alt_afp/usscienceparanormal), a form of teleportation. If we can project people into a virtual character, so they feel and respond as if they were really in a virtual version of themselves, just imagine the implications.
"The experience of video games could reach a whole new level, but it could go much beyond that. For example, a surgeon could perform remote surgery, by controlling their virtual self from a different location."
Aside from how it could affect future gaming, or even training, if you were serverely handicapped you could enter a virtual world and all your sensations would be free from the limitations of your injuries.
If you were severely handicapped, would you rather have your real body wired so that your mind would be free? So, you could be laying in bed with an electronic football helmet with wires coming out of it connected to a computer and practically looking imobile and unconcious while family members went about their business around you as if you were just part of the furniture. But, in your virtual world and mind, you'd be living out an exciting life of activity -- whichever you chose, and feel it were a real life and world.