Tech firm AMD, that makes the chips which power PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, believes we will one day move into a virtual world <\/p>\n
A TOP technologycompany making virtual reality products is already planning for a time when actual life and virtual reality are indistinguishable. <\/p>\n
Chip maker company AMD, which runs Playstation 4 and Xbox One consoles, is banking on virtual reality taking over the world. <\/p>\n
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Some people have scoffed at early VR headsets such asOculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Gear, which are expensive and sometimes make the wearer vomit. <\/p>\n
But AMDs corporate vice president, Roy Taylor, took to the stage at a virtual reality conference being held in Bristol this week to blast any criticism and predict big things for the future. <\/p>\n
He said: To get to photo realism is the next big step, to get to full presence is where we need to get afterwards, when actual life will be indistinguishable from virtual reality. <\/p>\n
It seems far-fetched, but last year virtual reality headset sales reached almost one billion, Taylor said. <\/p>\n
2016 saw the first virtual reality cinema, the first virtual reality surgery in London and even saw virtual reality used to settle a case in court. <\/p>\n
\"Remember Timemagazine wrote in 1994 that the internet would not take off,\" Taylor told an audience at Virtual Reality World Congress on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
That said, there's probably some way to go until we abandon the real world. The software is not quite finished yet, thanks to technical obstacles. <\/p>\n
And the more detailed the graphics become, the more likely the person wearing the headset is to feel nauseous. <\/p>\n
Wires also get in the way, limiting gamers' movements. <\/p>\n
But Taylor said that AMD might just have the answer, thanks to a new chip design which uses beamforming - a way to send signal to a direct target (unlike WiFi, which broadcasts signal to a wider area). <\/p>\n
Taylor hinted it could be a component of the Xbox's virtual reality gaming, which is rumoured to be launching later this year as part of new console, Project Scorpion. <\/p>\n
Computer simulations are already having a huge impact on the world we live in. <\/p>\n
Scientists recently showed how subjects were able to catch virtual tennis balls that turned out to be real. <\/p>\n
That means they were catching the balls without ever seeing the direction they were being thrown in. <\/p>\n
Similarly, researchers have used virtual reality to make people feel they are having an out of body experience. <\/p>\n
They believe it could cure society's fear of dying, as subjects all said they felt more positive about death after the experiment, <\/p>\n
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