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23Jun/16Off

FCC chairman visits Stanford for virtual reality lesson

Bailenson favors a scenario where users download 3-D content of an environment to a local computer, and the only data sent over the internet is the tracking information of the user’s body actions – where you look, what your hands touch, where your feet walk. Sending small packets of tracking data would lessen the burden on the network and also allow for faster, smoother response times, improving the immersive feeling of the experience.

Another area of concern for Wheeler was privacy, from both user-to-user and user-to-business perspectives. Virtual reality can provide the illusion of privacy, Bailenson said, but sophisticated users – or computers – can actually infer a lot of personal details from data collected in virtual spaces.

“Virtual reality technology is becoming incredibly immersive, to the point where we’ve shown that your brain processes it in much the same way it does real-life experiences,” Bailenson said. “We absolutely need to consider how this medium will affect people.”

See the full story here: http://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/22/fcc-chairman-visits-stanford-virtual-reality-lesson/

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