Is There VR for Senses Other Than Sight?
Is There VR for Senses Other Than Sight? In an ideal world, virtual reality would be just like regular reality, except without regular reality’s annoying restrictions on human flight, teleportation, endless/consequence-free consumption, etc. As it is VR, it is inescapably VR—you can lose yourself, but only to a point. This has to do partly with the technology’s bulkiness, but also its sensory limitations. Smell and taste, two fairly major components of regular reality—key to memory, present-time enjoyment, and more—do not factor into commercial VR equipment. Of course, this problem ...