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but you cannot walk/feel it, just watching. It's still a huge gap to reality, less so, but you will still feel it's fake very vividly because those senses are missing.


Watching it is enough for a lot of people. Watching 1080p first person extreme sport videos on youtube is almost too compelling to me. I have to turn it off because it feels addictive.


chips will have to come a long way for this to be generated in real time, but there's no reason a generated 3D environment can't be interactive


Maybe some sort of implants that can generate senses. Would be 100s of years because you can say simulate weight/pressure and pinpoint accuracy if feeling friction.




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