Researchers at MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Group have developed an app capable of procedurally generating virtual spaces, based on 3D scans of real-world spaces using Google’s Project Tango.
Cue opening of dystopian novel. A man walks down the hallway of the abandoned hospital he has been squatting in since the downfall of Western civilisation. There are rat droppings in the corner, and the walls are sticky with bodily fluids, but instead of this abject squalor, the man’s VR headset shows him a field of prancing deer.
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Source: Alphr