@Barhandar  
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@Lucky Shot  
Someday we’ll have something that can do it, though i don’t think people are gonna want a plug in their head like in the matrix, I imagine that shit’s quite uncomfortable.

@Lucky Shot  
I’ve been steeped in technology since before I can even remember, and I’m a huge computer geek, and more of a proponent for high technology than most people, but I draw the line at giving someone else access (even read-only) to the innermost workings of my mind.  
The simple fact of the matter is that other people (especially those in positions of power) cannot be trusted with such things.

@Barhandar
 
We already have all of the groundwork for brain control available.
 
The reason we don’t have brain hacking is because the people have yet to adopt the obvious next step in “human advancement” likely for this exact reason.

@I Was Never Here  
Engineering, while complex, is possible. Your “smart transmitter” isn’t - and if it is, welcome to cyberdystopia with your brains being hijacked by malicious entities. Also you’re simplifying your side while not simplifying the other, that is, you’re biased.

@DragonWraith  
My perspective is that while a low level of simulation may be achieved with tactile feedback, that it has a hard limit on how immersive it can be simply because of the logistics involved in something that is more immersive. Meanwhile something that influences nerves directly may be harder to figure out, however there is no such upper limit on it as it is more simply scalable.
 
Again, that’s just my personal opinion on the matter.

@I Was Never Here  
Considering that the technologies involved in that force feedback system already exist in one form or other, while the neural interface is still purely science fiction, I know where I’d place my bets.

@Barhandar  
That’s implying the interface isn’t smart though. As long as you have a transmitter with a wide enough a range and enough processing power it can automatically calibrate itself to work with every individual person it interfaces with.
 
Meanwhile I can only imagine that casket has to gimbal three hundred and sixty degrees in every single direction and have feedback for every individual person’s full range of motion and be specially calibrated to match their force output exactly when they meet a virtual object and distribute that force to simulate different sorts of things. That’s not even considering the systems that would have to be put into place to neutralize/minimize the sensation of any harness and the other stuff for your other senses.
 
Again, I do think that from a technical standpoint having a direct neural interface is more complicated, however the logistics of physical system that can realistically and directly simulate the experience is truly mind boggling. In that case it isn’t an issue with technology so much as it is with engineering, and considering there’s a more efficient solution that isn’t as far off as you may think it is then I see no reason that that won’t be used instead.
 
But you know that’s just, like, my opinion, man.

@I Was Never Here  
Let me put it from a different perspective. You can make a full-body feedback “casket” and then easily adjust it based on the body shape of the person inside, and it will easily simulate touch, temperature and wetness (since wetness is merely pressure plus heat flux). One shape fits all.
 
Or, you can be forced to make unique, entirely individual chip to transmit feedback directly to the CNS, because every nervous system has differences enough to not be able to make universal connector that “fits” any brain.
 
You can use already existing interfaces (sight, hearing, touch), or be forced to create a tailor-made new one for every single user, separately. Which one looks insane and overly complicated, now?

@Background Pony #9788  
It will happen, the question is how long you plan on living.

@I Was Never Here  
Let’s just hope that happens in our lifetime, we must snuggle ponies in VR!!

@DragonWraith  
I’d wager it would be much simpler to simulate the sensations by sending the tactile signals directly to the central nervous system.
 
Obviously that’s complicated as hell, but the logistics involved in making and then using a full body force feedback system just seems insane and unnecessarily complicated when you compare the two approaches.

@Lucky Shot  
That’d take some crazy force feedback technology.

One day, not only will you be able to draw the ponies in VR, you will be able to snuggle them too.

I wish I had a Vive, I would make such great tilt brush art ;~;