Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2016 14:44:49 GMT
Since the beginning of wireless communications there has been a source of audio alone... no picture... called radio.
There has never been a wireless source of video alone; television was coupled with audio from day one.
The two senses, seeing and hearing, work together or separately, but when vision is not accompanied by sound we have the primitive sense that we do not know what's going on: vision needs sound to be complete, whereas sound by itself has the power to stimulate visual suggestions in the mind, which has given us the notion of "theatre of the mind" when describing the power of radio.
Because radio and TV have been part of the real world emanating from components located in the room or the car, they have been part of our experience of reality, but they have not replaced reality with an alternative experience... until now.
There is much talk of virtual reality capable of putting our conscious minds in artificial worlds introduced by head-worn devices which convincingly put us in a realistic but non-existent environment. The most convincing systems employ both vision and sound to put our heads in programmed space, and have so far been extensions of computer applications.
Already being considered is the idea of virtual reality television which will put viewers on Mars during science fiction episodes and at sea for the sinking of an ocean liner... if things get too real our entertainment might kill us.
But what about virtual reality radio? What more could it be than highly precise surround sound?
So long as we can see the road ahead through a clean windshield virtual reality radio wouldn't necessarily trick us into being elsewhere, unless perhaps we listened in the dark, in which case reality and virtuality could become confused.
Some things will never come to us by way of virtual reality... consider lunch.
There has never been a wireless source of video alone; television was coupled with audio from day one.
The two senses, seeing and hearing, work together or separately, but when vision is not accompanied by sound we have the primitive sense that we do not know what's going on: vision needs sound to be complete, whereas sound by itself has the power to stimulate visual suggestions in the mind, which has given us the notion of "theatre of the mind" when describing the power of radio.
Because radio and TV have been part of the real world emanating from components located in the room or the car, they have been part of our experience of reality, but they have not replaced reality with an alternative experience... until now.
There is much talk of virtual reality capable of putting our conscious minds in artificial worlds introduced by head-worn devices which convincingly put us in a realistic but non-existent environment. The most convincing systems employ both vision and sound to put our heads in programmed space, and have so far been extensions of computer applications.
Already being considered is the idea of virtual reality television which will put viewers on Mars during science fiction episodes and at sea for the sinking of an ocean liner... if things get too real our entertainment might kill us.
But what about virtual reality radio? What more could it be than highly precise surround sound?
So long as we can see the road ahead through a clean windshield virtual reality radio wouldn't necessarily trick us into being elsewhere, unless perhaps we listened in the dark, in which case reality and virtuality could become confused.
Some things will never come to us by way of virtual reality... consider lunch.