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How to combine Bitcoin and Virtual Reality?

Bitcoin is my love and Virtual Reality is one of the future directions of the internet

Will they be a synergy together?

Well given the fact that both of these technologies are things that aren't real mainstream yet, I don't really see a reason for them to be able to meld. Plus the fact that VR and Bitcoin have no business in working together. I could see some apps being present where you can send money through VR and maybe even like look at where your coins came from tracking them from address to address through your VR blockchain. But there's no real practical use for this, it's just fun for a little while then you never use it again.

Not really needed in the least

This is fun to discuss, but those things may be the next generation of futuristic economical.

at the moment, Bitcoin still only in form of logarithmic with logo, and physical coins. when someone combine bitcoin and virtual reality, Bitcoin will be a futuristic economical for future human who will be more modern.

We are going to modernity era and that idea to combine bitcoin and virtual reality will bring new revolution.

but in the other hand, both bitcoin and virtual reality have not covered in the whole of society yet. still many people don't know what are those things.

I agree with squatz1

And how will the blockchain be able to support so much data? Blockchains run on people's computers. Can they run Virtual Reality on their home computers?

Let's see BTC integration into gaming, any game, first and then we can move into VR. I find it pretty weird that there aren't any monetised games with any Bitcoin provision. I guess it rips some profit away from them but it would also attract greedy gamers.

It depends on what do you mean, if you mean to use bitcoin or an altcoin as a currency in a  virtual reality game that should be trivial to do and not too difficult to implement, but if you mean using the blockchain to store the data of the virtual reality game then I think that could be a very difficult thing to do and something that does not offer any advantage.

Bitcoin will never and shouldn't be integrated as in-game currency in any popular game, because in game currencies are supposed to be infinitely emitted so players can earn them via in-game tasks, and it's also supposed to be destroyed when players spend it to prevent inflation. So, in gaming and VR Bitcoin can only be used as as a payment method, although it may change if the game has some new economic model that is different from all existing mmo's. But there also a problem with scaling - Bitcoin transactions take a few hours to confirm and sometimes have pretty high fees - this means they are pretty bad for microtransactions.

I am not sure how somebody would be able to combine the two but I think it is possible since they exist in the same world. I am not sure if there's already a game where you can pay Bitcoin to pay for in-app purchases.

Things are going towards virtually and the physical existence is going to disappear. As many of the students are now reading in virtual university and they have much time for their study because they took their classes from their homes. Now the currency is virtual and with the passage of time everything will be virtual except food. This is the reality of the future that we all will be virtual users.

There is a possibility that these two entities can be combined. Just plug-in your own signature VR device, apps and with your own data with it and meet up with anyone thru a designated virtual channel and make or choose a blockchain transaction. There are no limits in technology maybe the developers are currently experimenting it now.

Here it can be done, especially for gambling.  Some can create a virtual room with a poker game, dice game, roulette or even slots.  Then we can a shot via bazzar or overstock.com virtual market place where you can see the product in VR and you can make a bitcoin payment if they accept bitcoin of course.  The possibilities are endless.

I really enjoy reading your interesting comments and thoughts, please keep them coming!

For me, I can't find a relationship between those two things.  The closet invention I can imagine is that Maybe someone will invent someday a Virtual shop that you can pay with cryptocurrencies. It is not really innovating but I hope that they will be innovating more that me.

Premium content is the only thing I can see that could bridge those two.

Change in terms of currencies is still out there, having bitcoin today and its virtual existence bring us into a big realization at this generation. Of course, we accept that this could be possible to happen and using virtual currencies will make us to have a comfortable life compared before. Because of  this we can make transaction online in an easy and fastest way.

Well haven't you guys thought of Games yet?  I'm sure you have!

Cryptocurrency, the Blockchain and virtual reality can harmonize in many ways, and one of its many use cases are next generation games as well as teaching platforms.

Let's think of more together. I like this topic a lot

Tradable ingame items and land parcels that exist on the Blockchain and are unique... in virtual reality worlds

That's what I foresee

And yes I think there will one day be Bitcoin smart contracts

I dnt think there is any game which allows payment with btc.so i dnt think you can combined them.though i may wrong

Let's see the integration of BTC into games, any game, I find it very surprising that no games are monetized with Bitcoin provisions anywhere. I guess it tore some of the advantages of them but will also attract greedy gamers and so on.

As far as I know theres nothing who accepts is a payment for games but to other thing some store accept it jownas a rule of payment. Bitcoin and virtual reality was possibile to happen as they are exist in the same world. It is merely to happen especially in gambling sites. Technology always improve so for me thats not impossible to happen.

It is a possible thing that Bitcoins get incorporated into the gaming website for the sake of earning. If it would become a reality I'm going to have a great fun because playing online games is one of my favorite hobbies.

Despite of just gaming sites I think that due to excessive use of digital currencies and large number of supporters favoring Bitcoins over physical money, It is going to happen in near future that all the exchanges in terms of money are going to take place via the use of virtual money.

very interesting . Virtual reality technology is quite popular. And there are some coin dedicated to this 4.0 technology. vox is an example. :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\

They do seem like they would work well together. It does not have to be bitcoin specifically though. Any kind of digital currency will do.

Bitcoin and Virtual Reality are a mismatch. It is too difficult to implement those things together. They are only related by the word "virtual". But if you are actually thinking Virtual Reality devices that can be bought by paying Bitcoins, then that's possible. Being a digital currency is an obvious purpose of bitcoin.

Yes there are still many sites and people who do not accept payment in bitcoin and do not allow customers to use the ease provided by bitcoin, but o worries in future it will happen soon because now some educational institutions have also accepted fee in bitcoin, they have realized the fact that without bitcoin the race with world will not be possible, soon this will happen every where