- In the fall of 1997, my university built a CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) to help scientists, artists, and archeologists embrace 3D immersion to advance the state of those fields. Ecstatic at seeing a real-life instantiation of the Metaverse, the virtual world imagined in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, I donned a set of goggles and jumped inside. And then I promptly vomited.
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I never managed to overcome my nausea. I couldn’t last more than a minute in that CAVE and I still can’t watch an IMAX movie. Looking around me, I started to notice something. By and large, my male friends and colleagues had no problem with these systems. My female peers, on the other hand, turned green.
Fucking Dana Boyd. And also fuck Quartz. I'm officially ignoring that domain now. "Microsoft Researcher Slags Facebook Purchase Using Trigger Words" is a better title. The impossibly stupid thing is that motion parallax vs. binocular vision has been the battle of 3D imaging for over a hundred years. There's nothing new here. The gender differences of perception? Interesting stuff, no doubt. But it takes a real bitch to use the limitations of technology to take a swing at The Patriarchy. You know what? Fuck her book, too. It was on my list but at this point I feel like I'd be giving my money to Ann Coulter.
Oh i get it misread something then get mock angry rinse and repeat.
Misleading a sensationalist title. While the research into how males and females perceive 3D visual cues was very interesting, the author concludes with "therefore sexist" even after revealing that the technology for better shape-from-shading (which females appear to rely more on for 3D cues) is actually difficult to achieve with current 3D technology.
I liked the overall idea, i do feel that calling it sexist is over the top. it's the fact that the people developing the Oculus rift are men, developing the technology in a way that's usable for them. So I guess you could say that there are some inherent biological biases in that. That's not sexism, or at least not intentional sexism. It's unintentionally exclusionary, so that's a problem. The obvious solution would be to develop something for women that has been developed for the color blind- different coloration/settings to enable playability for a broader audience. This of course can only happen if the company effectively listens to their customers or include females on the UAT for any of these products. Essentially it's going to require two different graphical displays depending on sex, men will never be able to program that correctly, because they can't test it effectively, which you could argue is also sexist, using her language, it's a limitation. Now that Oculus Rift has a ton more money, they need to hire women to enable women to play games. They'll need to develop a way to create a filter similar to what they have done for men, but for women. It's going to create a lot more work for all developers, but it's the right thing to do.
It seems to me something that would have been really cool in the 90's or for first person shooter fans. Not a world changer. Immerse tech is on the way out.
I wouldn't say that it's an entirely gimmick technology. A personal VR headset would be incredibly useful for training as you could save expensive materials in the process if you do it right. If the military goes with drones more and more for air missions, having your full field of view pumped right in to your face is incredibly useful compared to a screen. The problem is that at best it is unnecessary. A controller for a console was absolutely necessary for gaming. You can't not have it and hit a mainstream audience because a keyboard just isn't ergonomic, and it's controls aren't standardized. For VR? Not so much.
I also can't watch IMAX or 3d movies or play 1st person games without nausea.
See. Just kidding. Do you have this affliction in other regards? Heights, car sick, boats...?
I have an inner ear issue roller coaster and other amusement park rides feel like seizures I can't even lean the right way. Low speed car rides give me the nausea. Of course this is all off topic as I am male but I do not have any personal excitement for occulus .