Face Reality

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  • Dates
    2019 - Ongoing
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  • Location Netherlands, Netherlands
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"…By the 2030s, virtual reality will be totally realistic and compelling and we will spend most of our time in virtual environments…."

Ray Kurzweil (inventor, thinker & futurist)

Virtual Reality is popping up more and more in our surroundings and is here to stay. We are standing on the brink of a new development, at least, that is what engineers and futurists predict.

Artists, companies and institutions are working on figuring out how to use the medium and developers of materials for the ministry of defence are also taking a very deep interest in it.

VR is used for training purposes, but it also turns out to be very suitable for helping to ease pain or to empathize with someone with a disability. The virtual world is experienced by our brain as "real" and we therefore store vivid memories, as with a real experience. A big difference with photo or film. What will Virtual Reality bring us in the years to come? Will Kurzweil's prediction come true?

It is time to face reality and start asking questions like;

What problems will this technology solve for us?

And no less important: What problems might it cause?

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https://sasfotos.nl/project/face-reality/

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Galbladder Surgery Training Simulators and virtual reality will become indispensable in the training of medical specialists in the future. In the skills lab of the Catharina Hospital, surgeons train for gallbladder surgery. In addition to practicing with the laparoscopic simulator, Virtual reality provides a more realistic experience. Just like in the operating room, the surgeon is addressed by assistants and can hear all the sound around him. [ Eindhoven 2022 ]

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Safety at the workfloor training Cleaning employees at cleaning company CSU receive training in safety in the workplace via Virtual Reality. [ Uden 2022 ]

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Star Wars Experience At the Dutch Comic-Con it was possible to make a virtual Star Wars space journey. [ Jaarbeurs Utrecht 2019 ]

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Research shows that dialysis patients who wear Virtual Reality glasses during the ‘puncture’ experience less pain and fear. They take a virtual walk through a city or nature and are therefore distracted from the treatment. The Catharina Hospital participated in this study and has now made VR a structural part of the treatment. [ Eindhoven 2022 ]

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Company emergency response Demonstration of a fire extinguishing training. In a virtual representation of the Annaziekehuis in Geldrop, emergency workers learn to find their way in the hospital to extinguish a fire in the operating room. [ Mierlo 2022 ]

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Pain Clinic With virtual reality patients end up in a completely different world and as a result of this they experience less pain, fear and stress. The Eindhoven Catharina Hospital uses the VR glasses to help people with severe nerve pain. This patient receives a painful capsaicin (pepper) treatment for an hour, but after that the nerve pain is much more tolerable for a few weeks. [ Eindhoven 2022 ]

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Last Grain of Sand (Post Neon) Sand is one of nature’s most valuable resources. We use it for instance for making glass, concrete and microchips. Unfortunately, the amount of sand in the world is not infinite and the ever-increasing demand threatens to create a global scarcity. In this installation you take a virtual journey that explores our connection with sand. [ STRP art & technology Festival Eindhoven 2022]

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Rijksmuseum visit Because not everyone is physically able to visit a museum and was not able to do so during the COVID19 period, residents of various care homes are given a virtual tour of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. [ Delft 2022 ]

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Flight simulator Becoming a pilot is a dream of many people. With VR you can, sitting in your own seat at home. Land a plane at Orly Airport near Paris (like here in the picture) or make an hour-long transatlantic flight while you find yourself in the vividly realistic cockpit and be the pilot of the plane. [ Echt 2022 ]

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Next Nature Future Travels Leave the Evoluon, take off from Eindhoven and make a virtual journey forward in time. Not 10, 100 or 1000 years, but billions of years. Beyond the moment when the sun has burned out. (art/technology installation) [ Eindhoven 2022 ]

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Being visually impaired or blind What’s it like walking through the city being blind or visually impaired, having to dodge obstacles to find your favorite store? The Muzieum in Nijmegen has developed an expedition in which people, together with an experience expert, walk through the city and experience various eye disorders through VR glasses. [ Nijmegen 2022 ]

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Potatobot (children’s theatre) Children remotely control a robot that plants, cares for and grows potatoes. This way they feed the robot’s Artificial Intelligence system so it can, in a later apocalytic situation, continue growing potato’s by itself. [ dronefestival TT-Assen 2019 ]

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Defence trainingsystem SUIT (small unit immersive trainer) Training for an arrest on a hijacked ship, in a small village anywhere in the world or in the middle of the desert. Defense can simply practice this at home in Virtual Reality. [ Tech-event Brightday 2019 Haarlemmermeer expo ]