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VR windshield turns a drive into a safari, an underwater voyage or — Ahhh, a shark!
Huh. Well, this looks like a bad idea. The "IPSE" is a car designed by Jeongche Yoon and Hoyoung Kihl that turns your average drive into an adventure.
Here's the scoop:
IPSE's virtual environment system recognizes outside surrounding then translates into virtual objects and living things. For example, in 'underwater' mode, other vehicles appear to the driver as sea creatures. While it drives through a street in the city, the driver doesn't see any buildings, cars and asphalt-paved road but beautiful trees and wild animals running on the charming grass land.Driving is tricky enough as it is without a passenger screaming, "brake for that whale!" I mean, seriously, we already see people texting on their cells and watching movies while they're on the road. This is just asking for trouble.
Check out the gallery below for more of the IPSE.
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Jeongche Yoon, via Tuvie
By Crazy snail at 7:29 AM ON 07/18/09
O.K., no doubt this looks interesting, but would it be street legal?
By fullofshih at 10:02 AM ON 07/18/09
This was probably designed for cars that can drive themselves, if not, then it probably won't ever get approved, at least not in the US.
By go-4-it at 10:32 AM ON 07/18/09
SwEEt! a car that drives its self is good, but a car that turns the landscape into a fake one is even better ;)
By Jaguarpurr at 11:25 AM ON 07/18/09
This is the wave of the future. Man has made the concrete jungles and now longs for the beauty of nature that is the soul of all people. A beautiful solution to a quickly deteriorating world. If only we could really get our natural world back. Still a most enlightening idea,
By Stan Winstone at 11:43 AM ON 07/18/09
That's silly...
By xaosbringer at 1:56 AM ON 07/20/09
'Scuse me while I just park up between these 2 cows!!!!
By Al at 10:55 AM ON 07/20/09
Hows about putting a combat video game as your surroundings! Fire! Fire! Look out for that enemy tank! Predator overhead!
I'm sure the arresting officer will be understanding.
By Viral Chaos at 2:07 PM ON 07/20/09
What happens when an actual animal runs onto the road?
By Giggity at 2:44 PM ON 07/20/09
@Viral Chaos... it's appearance is changed to look like a car.
For me...I would just drive around it. ;-)
By Spaceresearcher at 11:24 PM ON 07/20/09
I think this is an idea best left to elevators, public buses(driver not exposed to virtual environment), trains and personal VR headsets.
The idea is strangely fascinating, incorporating a virtual world into your every day world. People already look at VR environments like Alpha World and 2nd Life to live some of there phantasies, it was only a matter of time before this transition started comming along.
Wearable computers have been in the cards for a long time and I'll never forget shooting virtual robot dinosaurs with that big chunky headset in the first public release of VR. It was a most interesting head trip and with a bit of work could have given Tron fans a real blast.
Now there are sets which are extremely portable: The VR920 for example.
I have to agree with most people on the feedback. Sure for passengers and recreational trips where your not driving, why not. However as it's been stated, anything that is an in vehicle distraction to a driver, is a bad thing. Besides which who honestly wants to see a beautiful women turn into a shark ever? Hmmm... maybe those trans-speciasts, like that strange guy in South Park that wanted to become half dolphin???
Virtual Hallucinations are upon us, here's hoping they don't affect epileptics and cause trauma to the eyes.
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