What price would you pay for a home virtual reality system??

[yoda313]

If you could get a home virtual reality system complete with goggles and gloves how much would you pay for it???

I honestly don't know if there are any 'consumer' level virtual reality units available. But lets say some company comes out with one that would be home friendly. What would you be willing to pay??? What killer game or app would you need to have in order to make the investment? Would just owning one be enough to get one???

[gadgetguy]

No thanks. I'd rather wait for a Holodeck

[Epicurus8a]

Not much, I'm sure it would get boring fast.

[cal_tony]

So, lt me be the first to say, If we're talking about its use for Porn, Maybe. Otherwise, not impressed yet.

[SCDVD]

Are we talking about a pair of goggles or a Holodeck? I'd pay $0 for a pair of goggles. A Holodeck - different story.

[yoda313]

@ scdvd - I'm reffering to current technology - ie the goggles.....

[TBoneit]

No interested....

OTOH if there were a place like "Dreampark" from the book series by Niven, I'd be there in a flash.

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Park-Larry-Niven/dp/0441167306

Cheers

[TheFamilyMan]

Not interested.

A few years ago I was at SGI (Silicon Graphics) and demo'ed one of their "reality centers", which is basically a room with wall sized screens and projectors driven by CG. You use stereo glasses triggered by some signal from the screen that creates a very crisp in-your-face 3D image. Absolutely awesome walking through molecules, battlefields and the human body. No gloves, but used a joystick to position the "models" being viewed. They actually used to market and sell these things; I don't know if they do anymore (they're lucky just to be in business at the present time).

[vico1]

For a fully working Holodeck, like on the "Star Trek" Series...What would I pay...
I'd give everything I own, hock the house, the dog, & the wife.
(J/K about the wife...well... maybe )

[oldfart13]

Blind in one eye means I can't see for beans as it is so virtual reality won't work for me. Now if it was for those electronic eyes like Steve Austin (The Six Million Dollar Man) had.....

[FulciLives]

Considering that I am fat and lazy ... well ... I find the Nintendo Wii to be a bit to much work so ... I doubt I will like virtual reality.

My guess is I would have to move around way to much. **** that. Give me a joystick/pad and 1080p and I'm there!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Wile_E]

No thanks. I'd rather wait for a Holodeck

For a fully working Holodeck, like on the "Star Trek" Series...What would I pay...

Have you guys seen this? Now this is sweet for all Star Trek fans!

Apartment Transformed into Star Trek Shrine
http://www.electronichouse.com/article/studio_apartment_transformed_into_star_trek_shrine/C154

The Homemade Star Trek Theater
http://www.electronichouse.com/article/star_trek_theater

[lordsmurf]

One meeeellion dollars.

[LOWTECH]

Nothing I prefer ...reality .... not virtual crap.

[codecpage]

A virtual flightsim would be cool, but my chiropractic says the goggles are too heavy

[thecoalman]

Oddly if this were come to pass it would solve a lot of the obesity problems here in the US. I saw virtual reality ball posted somewhere once where the person walked around inside the ball which was stationary. I'd imagine that would be quite strenuous playing Doom.

For a game like doom it would be superb. To go for a walk in the woods.... think I'll go for a walk in the real woods.

kinda like a hovercraft - cool but pointless

Unless you live next to a river like me where there are many obstructions underneath the water. That would actually be quite a nice toy to have where I live.

[TBoneit]

Considering that I am fat and lazy ... well ... I find the Nintendo Wii to be a bit to much work so ... I doubt I will like virtual reality.

My guess is I would have to move around way to much. **** that. Give me a joystick/pad and 1080p and I'm there!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

Fat and Lazy is bad??

Most labor saving inventions are done by lazy people.

[vico1]

Fat and Lazy is bad??

Most labor saving inventions are done by lazy people.

Don't know about Lazy tho...

[BJ_M]

depends how virtual and how much and how drunk i would be