virtual reality
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Background: One of the various promises of “augmented reality” (or “AR”) is the ability for a user to wear a virtual reality headset that edits reality in some vaguely useful fashion. For example, a maintenance worker might be able to overlay a diagram of the wiring inside walls, giving them a sort of “x-ray vision.”…
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Background: Currently, there is no easy way to have the experience of becoming a tiny ant [*]. This is a shortcoming that could not be addressed—until now, thanks to modern VR technology! [*] You could watch the 1989 film Honey I Shrunk the Kids, but that isn’t an interactive experience. Proposal: Thanks to virtual reality,…
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Background: Running a business is expensive, and employee wages are usually a huge fraction of total costs (see Figure 1). However, these jobs can’t always be eliminated: many jobs still REQUIRE a human employee, and jobs that require an on-site presence can’t be outsourced. Proposal: Some jobs require an on-site presence and are difficult to…
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The issue: Running on a treadmill can be quite unrewarding due to the repetitiveness and relatively long duration of most treadmill-based exercises. Fig 1: This treadmill needs to be jazzed up somehow. There are certain “gimmick”-based treadmills that connect to a monitor to give you the illusion of actually making progress toward a destination as…
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Proposal: a system for virtually bringing pets into the office Pet owners with 9-to-5 jobs may find that they miss their noble animal companion during work hours. Some workplaces will allow well-behaved animals to hang out at work, but that is usually limited to dogs and draft animals. In any case, this addresses only a…
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The issue: There are a number of popular computer games that take place in forbidding environments—in a blizzard atop a snowy beak, or inside a volcanic caldera. However, there is no way of conveying the real feeling of temperature to the player. In a game like Skyrim, the player will be no worse for the…
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