Ready for Ready Player One?

Why all the Ready Player One references lately? It's just the latest cultural touchstone for virtual reality (and a good one).

If you are not already familiar with Ready Player One then check out the trailer on YouTube or even better, read the book - it's very good.

Annnnyway ...

A Real Life Haptic Glove (Ready Player One Technology Today) - Smarter Every Day 190

HaptX Gloves, brings touch feedback to VR with unprecedented realism, enabling a new category of industrial training simulations. Founded by Jake Rubin and Dr. Bob Crockett in 2012, HaptX won’t stop until you can’t tell what’s real from what’s virtual

This is SO COOL.

Essentially, RPO is based in 2044 dystopia where everyone hangs out online in the OASIS.

We already have the VR (if not entirely optimal fidelity yet), could we soon feel the virtual world as well as see it?

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