Virtual Reality is it really virtual

Virtual reality is one technology that i believe we all have within our grasp unlike some of the other topics that we talked about or learned about in class Tuesday because whether it is a game or a medical procedure being test before it has been put in to practice or a flight, vehicle, combat, training simulator for purposes of training our military, police, fire, etc. personel it can be the most versatile technologies for man kind it allows us to try thing that would normally cause harm or maybe even death by accident or mistake and minimizes it and can save lives by properly training individuals in the proper practice and procedures.

here is a example of full body immerseve virtual reality.



here is a program similar to Second life Click Here

and for those who have a Nintendo WII here is a way you can make your own Virtual Reality Googles for under $50.

Compliments of Johnny Chung Lee he is probably one person who can just about come up with anything really cool out of things you most likely have around your house.

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote

Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space.

The program only needs to know your display size and the size of your sensor bar. The software is a custom C# DirectX program and is primarily provided as sample code for developers without support or additional documentation. You may need the most recent version of DirectX installed for this to work.

Software
To run the DesktopVR program you see in the video:
1. Connect your wiimote to your PC via Bluetooth. If you don't know how to do this, you can follow this tutorial. I've been told it works with other Bluetooth drivers, but I have not tested them myself.
2. Download the WiiDesktopVR (v02) sample program. Read the README file on program usage and configuration. Launch the "WiiDesktopVR.exe" in the main folder. A potentially more stable/Vista/64-bit compatible version has been created by Andrea Leganza. There also may be more variants on the web.

NOTE: If you are having trouble with running the program, you can check my project blog post about it or check the forum for assistance. I am unable to replicate these problems, so it hard for me to debug them. But, other people have figured it out. Things that have been identified to help: delete the "config.dat" file and re-run the program, install a new version of Direct X, or istall .NET 2.0.

Developers Notes: The code is built on top of this Wiimote library. To compile the program, you will need a C# IDE and the DirectX SDK. More notes are in the README.

and a Youtube Video demo to compliment it:


I hope you Enjoy.