Sight isnt the only sense we need to really call it virtual timetravel,it has to give us the feeling the environment is alive and that we exist in it.

If you record not just a static picture, but a "film" where the wind blows, the flowers move ect like it does in the real world, and you put on the VR headset and your inside it, and can move around.... that ll be pretty damn close.

The only way to better that, is to have super computers able to correct things as you interact with them, flawlessly.... it might happend.

That and maybe getting some more senses in there (smell, and feel (on your skin)).

I can easily imagine a box you step into, put on the VR headset, and suddenly it turns up the "heat" inside that room, (if your wearing a VR headset, and its summer in the VR your in). Maybe the wind is blowing, and theres a fan that turns on, which makes it "feel" like the VR your experianceing really does have the wind blowing on you. Heck.... smell the flowers and a perfume pump on the VR headset gives you a spray of something flowery so you think your actually smelling virtual flowers.

so i guess someone has seen star trek finally lol.

Isaac Asimov's "The Dead Past" from 1956 about a chronoscope (a device which allows direct observation of past events) is one of my favorite short stories ever! I recommend it to everyone!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past

Yes.. just fancy playback..  :)

Not actully timetravel.. But think about it.. what you look at would be the same as if you did it for real.. but only digital.

For having the feel of being there..?

And I dont think it require insane procesing power.. whats i descripe here dont have to be put together in real time.. (Only.. I dont know) lets say 10 cams.. working together and then some computers (could be a supercomputer or cloud power.. but thats not the point) to make it into a single VR space.. and some proberly big HD (but the examble could also be just 1 hour) 

Yeah that virtual experience would have to be able to simulate a whole ecosystem in which everything does its own things and seems to react on instinct,feeling the wind isnt enough but its a start offcourse,and it would be awesome if we could touch and feel all of the things in this virtuall world like going with your hands trough flowers and having the petals tickling the tops of your fingers.

Edit: We are far away from this kind of virtual reality,do not think we will see it in our lifetime.

Hey.. I'm a Star Wars Guy.. :)

But no.. got to think about it after I saw a video on youtube where some company or university use (I dont know) lots of cams to "copy" a hole room into VR space.

(I startet out with 360 (degree) cams.. and it came on autoplay.. so sorry I cant find it again)

Yes.. yes.. thats exactly the point.. :)

And yes.. the "box" with "heat" "cold" and fan blowing "wind"..  also makes sense.. and could be done with current tech (its proberly already testet.. there are lots of companys working on "artificial" smells.. (And I dont say this to you.. I can see you allready got the iddea :)

sorry double post..

Have you read "The Light of Other Days"? Novel based on the same concept. (Of course Asimov did it first, he does everything first)

Yeah its the same as looking at pictures, just more fancy. You cant interact with anything, just look what has been recorded.

Really not a good thread bro, I think you should look up what time travel actually means.