Future of IT

In the Future, We Will Wear the Internet

We all love the movie Matrix and the Holodeck and the question is when will be able to enter a room and create this imaginary scenarios so realistic that it seems as if its really there. It turns out that scientists are making progress in that direction even as we speak .First of all,in the future the internet will be in your contact lens,you will blink and you will go on line,

Project Glass is a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display

you will see individuals and their biography will appear and subtitles will appear if they speak in chineese, so you will always know who you are talking to and what they are saying even if they speak in a different language.If you have internet contact lenses then you can imagine bizzare universes ,just like matrix you can be in an alien environment you can have all sorts of wonderous things take place inside your contact lens but then the trick is what happens if you move? what happens if you touch things ?Well the military has constructed something called Omnidirectional treadmills,it’s a treadmill in any direction.You are surrounded by 360 degree screens showing the image of Bagdad and then as you walk you can walk at any direction and always wind up in the same place but as you move every thing around you move ,the streets of Bagdad change every time you run at any direction the last thing that’s missing is a sense of touch ,that’s where haptic technology comes in.

Haptic technology is the ability  to create  the feel of a virtual reality ,now how does that work?lets say you have a platform with thousands of vertical pins such that when you put your hand on this platform the pins then conform to the fingers cause each pin is governed by  a computer ,therefor if you put your hands on a set of pins you can duplicate any texture that you want so in some sense if you are surrounded by these haptic devices you ll be able to touch objects and think that you are actually touching skin or touching wood or touching metal

and then you have the internet contact lens and then you are surrounded by 360 degree screens with an omnidirectional treadmill you are getting  very  close to the matrix.

From one of Prof. Michio Kaku lectures