HTC Vive/ Virtual Reality

  Hello and welcome back to my blog, today I will be talking about the HTC Vive and virtual reality in general. So, what the HTC Vive is: an advanced form of virtual reality that involves laser tracking and a virtual reality headset. What virtual reality is: you guessed it, an area that is not real, but man-made. I think that virtual reality can be used for many practical things. The most popular right now is videogames, which are, in my opinion awesome, especially with the Vive, because it comes with controllers that you can use to interact with the virtual environment around you. You can even walk around, and the laser will track you, unfortunately, they can not track your whole body, just the controller and the headset, but I hope that one day we will be able to see our whole body and be able to do everything we can do in real life (and a bit more) in virtual reality. I think that VR can also be used in engineering, where you can make a 3D object and will be actual able to walk around it and make adjustments. I think this will make it much easier for the next generation of engineers, who wont be using desktop computers, but will be actually seeing their creations and being able to go up and touch them, kinda. This could also be very effective as a new form of art. Instead of just having a flat painting, you can have a 3D picture that you can walk around and see from different views. I also think that this could be used in many training simulations, such as flight simulations, so instead of the government wasting a ton of money on those big simulators, they could just have a few and be able to use them for multiple types of simulation. One thing that I think would be very cool to go with the laser tackers, is drones, so instead of the lasers coming from the corners of a room, they would be attached to drones and they would follow you if you ran out into an area. This would make it so that you would not have to stay in a confined area, you could run into battle and not be worried about destroying your stuff. That is all for right now, I will see you next time, and thank you for reading my blog.