Matrix-Like VR Coming in the Near Future?

Anonymongoose writes "A researcher at Brookhaven National Lab reckons it could be just a few years before computers can pass through the uncanny valley. The article refers to this as a 'Graphics Turing Test': 'a computer can be considered intelligent if it can create an artificial world capable of fooling a person into believing it is the real thing.' Michael McGuigan has been performing some interesting experiments using Brookhaven's Blue Gene/L supercomputer and has shown that it can produce realistic lighting effects in real time. McGuigan's original research paper (pdf) is available online."

VR.5

[GenP]

But how are we going to fit a full VR.8 onto an 8" floppy?

No, thanks...

[Stormwatch]

...I prefer 2D games.

Gimme a P...

[Anonymous Coward]

Gimme an 'O', gimme an 'R', and gimme an 'N'!

It won't have to fool me into believing it's the real thing; I WANT to believe. I'm quite willing to ignore some gaping holes in any VR representation (but not others, nudge & wink).

(In fact my "Top Ten" List would contain more than a couple of anime characters)

Re:Yeah, but is there anything worth watching?

[Simon Simian]

Maybe in the new virtual worlds there'll be something good on TV.

I think I'd be impressed by a realistic virtual world. This one isn't convincing. There's a dead pixel in Iowa.

didn't DOOM already do this?

[What is a number]

When I played DOOM, I found myself trying to look around the corner of the inside of the computer screen.

It was immersive enough to fool me...

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I type this every time.

Just a few more years

[taustin]

A researcher at Brookhaven National Lab reckons it could be just a few years before computers can pass through the uncanny valley.

We can use it for the heads-up display for our flying cars (just a few years away) powered by practical fusion (just a few years away) while travling to the clinic for our immortality tratements (just a few years away).

Thank god all the best things humanity will ever invent are going to be practical at the same time (just a few years away).

oh puhleeeez...

[Ralph Spoilsport]

Sure. when I am CONVINCED some girl is sucking me off, I am supposed to beleive it? And pray tell, how will I know that it's "me" getting "sucked off"? And what about Goedel?

The whole Matrix simulacrum spiel is such a load of shite I find it utterly bizarre that people are still entertaining it.

I'm *sure* that the computer will fool some people into thinking what it makes is real, because THOSE PEOPLE ARE STUPID. It's not that the machines will become intelligent, it's that we're bending the curve on what we think is intelligence to something really stupid - we'll just lower the bar, or collectively enter our idiocracy and think "Hey - fooled me!"

"Gee Johnny, why don't you stop drooling on yourself for a minute and tell me: is the machine intelligent?"

"Id da macheen telligent? Duhh YEAH Boss! Id be willy telligent! Can I have cookie now?"

RS

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[Sloppy]

I'd rather have Tron-like VR. Screw your stylish coats and sunglasses, I want a lightcycle and gridbugs.

Finally, progress!

[Bemopolis]

And it will be ready just in time for Duke Nukem Forever.

Bemopolis

Re:Yawn

[Pennidren]

*Ahem* I was completely dunk.

Matrix-like

[Idiomatick]

So the it will be as realistic as a 2d i*j array? I don't get it.

I still play

[markov_chain]

*text* games, you insensitive clod!

Re:Yawn

[PlatyPaul]

Do you believe that my being wittier or more sarcastic has anything to do with my sobriety in this place? You think that's beer you're drinking now?

</morpheus>

Re:I still play

[PlatyPaul]

> get life
You see no life here.

Re:The really funny thing is...

[Woy]

A bit weak troll for these waters because most people here can think of painful ways to offer you an "absolute distinction" between real reality and the others.

Re:I for one...

[somersault]

I think I speak for everyone here when I say: you need to get laid. You need to get laid more than *I* need to get laid. Go get laid!