{"id":789,"date":"2019-01-21T09:26:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T08:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com?p=789"},"modified":"2021-01-11T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:58:24","slug":"first-steps-into-a-brave-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/?p=789&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"First steps into a brave new world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Kristin Fehlauer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly before\nChristmas, I had the opportunity to participate in a study on virtual reality\n(VR). Daniel Wiedemann, who is conducting the study for his doctorate, had set\nup the equipment right here in the same building where Klein Wolf Peters is\u2014one\nof the great benefits of a coworking space!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really\nhad no idea what to expect. I\u2019d of course read about VR before, and had seen the\nodd clip or gif where it was played for laughs, but I had no firsthand\nexperience. I had a vague idea I\u2019d be given some kind of goggles, probably more\nlike a headset, but didn\u2019t really imagine beyond that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the results of the study have not yet been published, I won\u2019t go too much into specifics, but rather just want to share some overall impressions. The most powerful of these is how utterly immersive the experience is; I genuinely had little to no sense of the exterior world. The headset was, understandably, not fitted exactly to my head, so if I really tried, I could look down past my nose and see below me. But in general, my attention was wholly taken up with the \u201cother\u201d world. It\u2019s easy to see how potentially addictive such an experience can be (a few more thoughts on this topic here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was also\nsurprised by how many options there were for navigating the virtual realm: I\nsampled three different options for translating my hand movements into actions\nin the VR world, which covered a wide range of complexity and accuracy. I tried\nout various ways of moving through the space, even one that involved special\nfootwear and a customized walking surface. Over the course of the hour I spent\nthere, punctuated by answering questions about the experience, it became\nincreasingly clear to me just how vast this emerging field must be\u2014and how\nlittle I understood of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In talking with the Mr. Wiedemann, I learned that, aside from its obvious entertainment value, VR technology has applications in many different fields<\/a> : education, research, fashion, etc. Another example is surgery, as it would allow surgeons to learn or practice techniques in a no-risk environment. Pivoting on this idea of no (or at least little) risk, I wondered if VR had application in combat training or the like. As a krav maga enthusiast, I would love a way to practice self-defense techniques without the usual bruising and soreness that usually comes with it. However, that\u2019s also part of the training: learning how to counter someone\u2019s force; how to hit and to be hit. So until VR manages to create solid mass, there will be some limitations to what it can do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a lot of talk nowadays about the potential of VR in many different fields. But have you tried it yet yourself? Our colleague Kristin Fehlauer spent an hour in another world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[530,344,531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}