VR is back
It’s done by tactile response, basically the gloves send nerve impulses to the brain that are simulated by the computer, in essence it’s the same theory as bionics.
Not the bionics of the Six Million Dollar Man, but the technology exists to implant a small microprocessor that would be attached to an artificial limb, so although you would not get full motor activity with the prosthesis, you would be able to do basic movements like picking something up.
As the brain receives electrical impulses to guide your movements, the glove sends the same impulses by inducing pressure on certain nerves to imitate touch, the clever part is how the computer decides how much pressure is involved.
The computer is programmed to know how much of a charge or pressure is needed too to get the get the right ‘feel’.
Possibly the closest Sci-fi film to mimic this is The Lawnmower Man, and by the sounds of it the virtual world is not far off being like Jobe’s.
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