How the True World Finally Became Virtual Reality

How humans became outliers in the natural world

The Physical World as a Virtual Reality

This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the physical world. The virtual reality concept is familiar to us from online worlds, but our world as a virtual reality is usually a subject for science fiction rather than science. Yet the world could be an information sim...

Telepresence : Virtual Reality in the Real World

I magine a teleconferencing system that’s so realistic, so natural, that you feel you could reach out and shake a participant’s hand, even though the individual may be sitting in a room hundreds or even thousands of miles away. That’s the idea behind telepresence, an emerging teleconferencing technology that’s designed to not only connect people together but to make them feel like they’re all c...

How Virtual Reality Meets the Industrial IoT

The increasing level of virtualization in our world is pushing us to get more and more devices connected to the internet. The same is happening in our cities where data, such as road information, air quality and traffic control, is being gathered and virtualized. This paper gives an overview of the concepts of Virtual Reality, (Industrial) Internet of Things and how they can be interconnected t...

How the eye measures reality and virtual reality

tures throughout our history. The paintings at Niaux, Altamira, and Lascaux (Clottes, 1995; Ruspoli, 1986), for example, are known to be about 14,000 years old, but with the recently discovered paintings in the Grotte Chauvet, the origin of representational art appears to have been pushed back even further (Chauvet, Brunel Deschamps, & Hillaire, 1995; Clottes, 1996), to 20,000 years ago if not ...