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This idea is for tiny electronic actuators inserted into your inner ear to gently nudge individual hairs and thus fool your brain as to the current balance or orientation of your body - designed to add a lifelike sense of movement and acceleration to flight virtual reality systems.
Also, remotely
activating this device for a prank will make someone fall over.
Endolymph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endolymph
fluid in the semicircular canals [csea, Jul 04 2015]
[link]
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Magnetic ferrorfluid seems perfect for this. Any volunteers? (I don't know that I want anything foreign injected into my ears). |
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<hand shoots up; leaps out of chair>
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! I volunteer [8th]!!!!!! |
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But seriously (relatively). This is an awesome idea.
Balance is about the only sense not already catered
to by VR, but is arguably one of the most important. |
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We already have this, and it's awesome .... |
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OK, but can we inject things into [8th]'s ears anyway? |
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Couldn't we go "down-stream" a little, and do it electrically in the balance->brain nerves?
<Aside>
I get motion sickness, and I always wondered if I could install an "off" switch in said nerve, to stop me feeling ill. </a> |
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[Max] Another useful sense to simulate to
improve VR would be proprioception, but
getting that right may be harder |
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// can we inject things into [8th]'s ears anyway? // |
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Certainly not. Besides, that triggers unpleasant recollections of
Sturton's perverted "hide and seek" game at last year's
Walpurgisnacht celebration. |
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//unpleasant recollections of Sturton's perverted
"hide and seek" game at last year's Walpurgisnacht
celebration.// Yes, but you never did find that
dormouse, did you? |
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//Another useful sense to simulate to improve VR
would be proprioception// But VR is supposed to
allow you to move/walk physically, shirley? If you
had synthetic proprioception, you would not be
interacting voluntarily with the VR. |
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You're meant to be on the inside. |
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You're twice as supposed to be twice as much inside
if it's a Klein bottle. |
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Look at you! I made you break your clavicle! PRANKED! |
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I wonder if, in the history of the world, anyone has ever
broken their clavicle with a clavichord? |
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A we getting meaner as we get older? |
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No, just less inhibited about expressing it. |
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//oh, not bank balance!//
Good one, [po]! |
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Endolymph [link], the fluid in the semicircular
canals is ionic, hence should be susceptible to
influence by electromagnetic fields. |
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There is therefore a plausible basis for
implementation of the idea without resorting to
//tiny electronic actuators// and/or invasive
replacement of the fluid. [+] |
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//Endolymph [link], the fluid in the semicircular
canals is ionic, hence should be susceptible to
influence by electromagnetic fields. // This
probably explains why people fall over after being
electrocuted. |
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And also why they don't respond when you call their name. |
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