Every technology is a double-edged sword…for every abuser, their is someone who genuinely needs it, and the all sorts of different fields that can benefit from VR (not to mention the sheer economic benefits) make your wish pretty impossible. If you are really concerned for your daughter, talk with her…..more likely then not, she’s communicating with someone given how much time she spends on the phone and laptop apparently….spend more time with her, encourage her to be more social on a face-to-face basis (18? does she plan to go to college?), and so on…

Banning an entire technology simply because some people ‘may’ abuse it…you couldn’t ‘ban’ it anyway, unless we lived in a totalarian government or something….even if their were restrictions, people would find a way to get it, like almost anything else.

NOW YOU WANT TO DOUBLE THE PROBLEM with VR that finally might work. The addicts will end up in bed continually with their headset on and have to be on a dripfeed. Might as well be in a COMA. Is this the death we want? This technology ought to be BANNED now before it’s too late for the weak willed idiots that are all around us now.

also after release of this VR headset very soon should come additional devices like… just search google for “fufme” -)) and it was real! i personally saw it at the exhibition in late ’90 -)

This blasting and killing everyone is not my thing.Throughout the world it is associated (as is violence in general) with people from a different culture than mine, with a big movie/tv industry in which almost every alien encounter will be unrealistically reduced to violence and/or sexuality (maybe this is connected to their “repression” of sexuality, derived from old, tribal values, proclaiming sexuality to be sinfull).

You know, the kind of movies in which patriots/cowboys of a certain country singlehandedly rescue the world after all fellow, and of course inferior,human nations have been beaten by the animalistic invader.

To each his taste!

Ps: Doesn’t change the fact that history channel docus are of a low quality.I once had a chat with some british fellow who described them fittingly as being “docu-trash”^^

You mean the one with all this **** about UFO’s!?

“This will be a major game changer.”
Yeah, the kind of games we will be able to play… jk.

He just happened to be intimately familiar with the subject matter and around at the right time to jump onto creating this, and then got lucky when John Carmack endorsed his project. Sometimes all it takes is one person’s idea (or wish), and this person happened to not work for a corporation. I don’t think even Palmer Luckey imagined how successful this would be, considering how fast the Kickstarter project took off.

What are they all doing with their money, and expertise all these years, and couldn’t come up with this?

Sure, this is in part just integration of many technologies Oculus didn’t invent, but shouldn’t that make it even easier for those with unlimited resources to develop?

Please update this post with a link to the verge’s video interview with Palmer Lucky. Here is a link to the MTBS forum thread with many links of other websites which interview Palmer. Also, MTBS is the semi-official forum for oculus.

http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=16076

Beyond that, this particular audio-video VR by Oculus Rift will only whet global appetite for incorporating the other remaining senses into the simulation, which should hasten research into BCIs with in/out ports to our brains sans surgery. In the big picture, Oculus Rift, as compelling as it promises to become, serves as a fantastic catalyst for the real Matrix-like VR that’s coming up right after.