Yeah, that would be great too. Even just feeding data to your eyes with a screen feels surreal
22:12
Good in-ears and a vr headset actually are surprisingly immersive. Your brain seems to be fooled enough that it can create tactile and sensory hallucinations to fit the visual and auditory cues
Hopefully in our lifetime. I saw that one prototype with resistance motors, but honestly I don’t really see the future in that. We just will never have strong and small enough motors and things aren’t always grabbed
The only way forward in true feedback is interfacing with the nerves themselves, I’ve also seen a very interesting experiment with amputees on that where they were able to tickle the missing feet of someone, it was absolutely bizarre
I’ve seen a study induce colorful hallucinations in someone who went blind (not born blind). Not unusual they always knew LSD did this for some blind people, but this paper was on inducing a similar effect using simulation of the optic nerve. Very spooky
22:20
I’m honestly not sure if we’ll ever figure out how visual information is encoded onto the optic nerve, atleast not sure if we will in my lifetime. But it’s really interesting to read about people researching these things
22:21
All their research reads so desperate, like the induced hallucination paper just put random sine waves onto the nerve in hopes of generating visuals
