VIRTUAL REALITY IS CHANGING OUR REALITY FOR REAL NOW AT 2017 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Virtual Reality is evolving at an exponential rate. It is enabling us to have deeper and more complex experiences that can not only give us awesome entertainment but can also change our reality for real. From gaming to medical interventions, check out the latest VR featured at 2017 Sundance Film Festival at New Frontier.

SYNESTHESIA SUIT: REZ INFINITE AND CRYSTAL VIBES

VR is cool, but it still has lots of tech limitations. It is evolving considerably however. The next level has premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier. Losing the cable tethers, VR installations are happening now.

You enter a designed space that includes projections, customized art, props, and lighting effects even before you don the VR headset, so you can begin your experience and end it without any gear for a deeper immersion.

Further freedom is enabled by motion tracking so you can walk around. And now, beyond haptic controllers that let us see and feel our hands, haptic suits yield more of a total body experience.

Check out some of our favorite next level VR experiences below.

The media lab of the Keio University Graduate School of Media Design’s Embodied Media Project collaborated with “Rez Infinite’s” creative director Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Rhizomatiks, using the Synesthesia Suit.

This full bodysuit is equipped with 26 sensors designed to integrate the entire body into a multisensory VR experience. You can wear it in two experiences: Rez Infinite and Crystal Vibes.

In these experiences, you can feel what you see and hear way beyond what you can with haptic controllers.

Rez Infinite, developed by Enhance Games, sends you flying through cyberspace, grooving to an intense techno soundtrack that pulses through your skin.

You play by shooting down viruses along your journey. You see, hear, and feel your successes and failures. Watch this video.

Crystal Vibes, designed by Dr. Benjamin Outran, of Embodied Media, is a psychedelic trip for your whole body. You move through tunnels formed by colored orbs that pulsate and change with the music.

SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND A WAY TO MAKE PARAPLEGICS MOVE AGAIN

VR is not just fun and games. Scientists Have Found a Way to Make Paraplegics Move Again. VR can trigger a recovery of our brains and bodies. Scientists from the Walk Again Project, an international, nonprofit, research consortium, led by Professor Miguel Nicolelis from Duke University and the Alberto Santos Dumont Association for Research Support, have found a way to make paraplegics move again using a VR brain-machine interface. 

All the patients who kept up with their training regained some feeling and motor skills.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: Courtesy of Embodied Media. Synesthesia Suit: Crystal Vibes, created by Dr. Benjamin Outram.
2. Image: Courtesy of Enhance Games. Synesthesia Suit: Rez Infinite, created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Ayahiko Sato & Kouta Minamizawa.
3. Image: Courtesy of Enhance Games. Synesthesia Suit: Rez Infinite, created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Ayahiko Sato & Kouta Minamizawa.
4. Image: Courtesy of Enhance Games. Synesthesia Suit: Rez Infinite, created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Ayahiko Sato & Kouta Minamizawa.
5. Image: Courtesy of Enhance Games. Synesthesia Suit: Rez Infinite, created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Ayahiko Sato & Kouta Minamizawa.
6. Image: Courtesy of Enhance Games. Synesthesia Suit: Rez Infinite, created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Ayahiko Sato & Kouta Minamizawa.
7. Image: Courtesy of Enhance Games. Synesthesia Suit: Rez Infinite, created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Ayahiko Sato & Kouta Minamizawa.
8. Image: Courtesy of Embodied Media. Synesthesia Suit: Crystal Vibes, created by Dr. Benjamin Outram.
9. Image: Courtesy of Quartz. Directed by Michael Tabb & Ananya Bhattacharya, of the Walk Again Project.
10. Image: Courtesy of Quartz. Directed by Michael Tabb & Ananya Bhattacharya, of the Walk Again Project.
11. Image: Courtesy of Embodied Media. Synesthesia Suit: Crystal Vibes, created by Dr. Benjamin Outram.
12. Image: Courtesy of Embodied Media. Synesthesia Suit: Crystal Vibes, created by Dr. Benjamin Outram.
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14. Image: by Travis Wise. “Sundance Film Festival.”