HalfDive

#undiscovered 2021 @Yam_Xeon @keidaroo

• Perhaps, even if one has the skills to come up with and implement this idea, it might end up being compiled in a research-like format.
  • The power and determination to go from brainstorming to crowdfunding and all the way to mass production is amazing, like Entrepreneurship.

Diver-X, World’s First! Announces VR Device “HalfDive” Optimized for Use While Sleeping - Aiming for Consumer Deployment for Gaming and Working While Lying Down | Press Release by Diver-X Co., Ltd.

• Amazing (blu3mo)

• Traditional VR synchronizes the input/output of the physical body in reality with the virtual body.

• If the method of controlling avatars is no longer synchronized with the physical body in reality, a “humanoid avatar with two legs and two arms” would seem to be just one of many possibilities (blu3mo).

  • Interesting (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
  • #versatility

• An experience without avatars seems intriguing.

  • Because you have discarded the physical body, you could potentially create a VR experience from a god-like viewpoint without limitations.
  • You can move around freely without issues.

• There seem to be things that can only be done in a state without a sense of physical ownership.

  • Aggressive movements?
    • Well, you could do that from the start.
    • Well, not getting motion sickness seems beneficial.
  • Perhaps, there is a theory that there is no need to determine the information entering the sensory organs based on the current coordinates in 3D space (?)
    • When considering HalfDive as a device that feeds information to the sensory organs, there might be a form of experience that is not bound by the reproduction of a world that resembles reality (reproducing the world from the viewpoint of 3D spatial coordinates).
    • Traditional VR devices are designed with the assumption of placing oneself at a single coordinate in 3D space (such as HMDs and controller position tracking).
      • However, HalfDive seems to be different, so it could create an experience that does not place oneself at a single coordinate in 3D space.
    • I don’t know what that would look like.
      • The phrase is interesting, but I can’t think of a specific example.
      • Just a random thought.
    • For example, what would happen if different images were sent to each eye without stereoscopic vision?
      • You might be able to do something once you get used to it.

Yoshifumi Seki / 関 喜史 (@YoshifumiSeki)

HalfDive, I’m ego-surfing with maximum parental affection, but it’s a shame that it’s being perceived in the context of sleep VR. https://twitter.com/YoshifumiSeki/status/1437628422344241156

• Very much so (blu3mo)(blu3mo)

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Miscellaneous Notes

• When considering the manipulation of the body and a virtual body,

  • Is there a sense of immersion when the manipulation matches the virtual body?
    • Is it embodiment? I can’t find the right word.
  • It doesn’t seem like it.

• Instead, isn’t it more like a PC display?

  • The positioning is similar.
  • The difference lies in the sensation of manipulating an extended body called Cursor or manipulating one’s own physical body. /blu3mo-private/UndiscoveredDocuments on HalfDive