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I hear from a lot of furries that they would love for science to make it feasible for people to be genetically transformed into real life anthropomorphic animals.  From what I understand, most of the furries who want this want it for aesthetic reasons, not so much for the ability to actually be an humanoid-animal creature.  So take a look at this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJwURqpFWs

It talks about a rather interesting technology called Augmented Reality which blends virtual reality with the real world, and has great potential for becoming a common thing in the near future.  Just go to youtube and search for Augmented Reality.  Imagine what you could do with that stuff.

awesome...

Oh god.


I can imagine two idiots fucking each other while wearring huge VR helmets which costed way mroe than a fursuit would. Not to mention the time/money it would take to get a realistic full body model.


oh god i lol'd

>>6
YouTube's got a knack for that.  I didn't know about Coke + Mentos until I stumbled across a Coke + Mentos vid on YouTube.  You could post a vid of yourself whittling on your front porch and you'd be guaranteed a few hundred hits, FFS... you want to get noticed, YouTube's probably one of the better ways.

Awesome.  The only thing I have to wonder is how much such a thing would cost, but then again, I didn't have the sound on when I watched the movie, so maybe it was mentioned in there.  Of course, there's nothing quite like actually being able to *feel* the fur on your body, but that's easily remedied.

The possibilities though... :3

The possibilities are on another freaking level. Of course they need to make the technology much smaller, so it could be like glasses connected to an pda size device in your pocket.

Then you can summon a keyboard, and type on it.  You can bring the internet with you.  Have a nice conversation with somebody next to you, and send messages to people in Japan.  Or summon a porn comic, and read it in plain view... since nobody can see it.

Of course, there would be downloadable video games that are interactible or even seek to look like a handheld console.

Then you know, silly special effects like raining cats and dogs, or flocks of birds flying.  Then doing magic tricks like making clones, shooting fireballs, and other things.

>>11 "Or summon a porn comic, and read it in plain view... since nobody can see it."

Just make sure you remain seated - pitching a tent in public is generally considered to be bad form.

We've been living with augmented reality since we invented the signpost and the map, but *personally* augmented reality is a bit new.  A story in Analog SF&F addressed this particular implementation around 1992 or '93 -- I think it was Arlan Andrews' "Interfaces," but I'm going from a title index with no context here.

Basically, while fun, being a game/fantasy 'addict' in 'AR' is not going to pan out any better than it does with our current 'VR' implementations, the differences being that, with the availability of extreme fantasy 'AR,' you'd be interacting with people experiencing an entirely different subjective reality, possibly including actual reality.  Imagine, you can let your whole house rot, pour yourself a bowl of roach-infested cereal, and your rose-colored glasses will happily paint out all of it except the crunch (and perhaps the smell, though technology is advancing on that).  Imagine what will happen when people strap on their Virtual Boy 2.0s and *drive.*

So... Choose-Your-Own-Hallucination *would* be damn cool, but when you're getting to the point of painting over reality rather than 'augmenting' it [with information that would actually *enhances* your ability to navigate through it], you'd really want to limit that to the equivalent of bars, laser-tag arenas and The Privacy of Your Own Home -- for some heavily obvious reasons.

>>16
"Can you imagine the entire human population going through out their lives with these virtual goggles and seeing the world as their own little world?"

Worse yet: "The Goggles... They do nothing!"

>>16

Sounds like a good plot for a sci-fi movie.

Now that I think about it, what's really scary about this is that cellphone driver assholes will have something seriously distracting to play with while they drive.  Hopefully, they will build a safeguard into them that deactivates the device when the user takes it into a vehicle.