>For the first time and in near-atomic detail, scientists at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have revealed the structure of the key part of the inner ear responsible for hearing.

>“This is the last sensory system in which that fundamental molecular machinery has remained unknown,” said senior author Eric Gouaux, Ph.D. He is a senior scientist with the OHSU Vollum Institute and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. “The molecular machinery that carries out this absolutely amazing process has been unresolved for decades.”

>Until now.

Cool, excited to see what comes from this.

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Beautiful

We likely need molecular nanotechnology before full dive VR can happen, but once that happens, it'll be possible to enable perfect hearing in many ways, including regenerating the eardrums.

Yes, and this is what's going to allow that. Until now we haven't understood the molecular mechanism whereby the ear turns sound vibrations into electrical impulses (that are then transmitted to the auditory nerve into the brain), and now we finally do. Huge advance.

So this is what aliens use for communication.

Joke aside, this is cool. Can I please have a pet version too?

Basically everything you experience is electricity in a sense so i don't quite understand why it's thought as something big.

Thanks for posting, this is fascinating.

First you would need to generate the vr world which would be hella hard without some kind of AI which we currently don’t have and you would need perfect brain interface to react to the world exactly like the real world which is nearly impossible it’s hella hard

Well that’s if they exist

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Because we didn't understand how the translation was happening, and now we finally do.

Reality might just be a perfect vr game and we would have no clue, because we can't prove it. In my opinion it is the most plausible theory that this universe is just a simulation and we are vr players in it.

what a time to be alive =]

Yes it is :)