Visual Rebuilding

Visual Rebuilding, shortened VR, is a technology developed at the world-renowned Department of Neuroscience at Viktor Chondria University in the United States. It was patented on February 14, 2004. Its stated purpose is to restore the ability of blind people to see by beaming electromagnetic waves into the brain.

Two diagrams showing how Visual Rebuilding works

Visual Rebuilding technology is the original basis for Project Noah prior to the discovery of the Ir2 equation by Takumi Nishijou, allowing for delusions to be projected into people’s brains as a form of mind control.

Visual Rebuilding is not as powerful a technology or technique as realbooting, a Gigalomaniac ability which is described by the Ir2 equation. While realbooting can actually physically manifest delusions in reality, the most that Visual Rebuilding can do by itself to alter reality is to alter the data in people’s sensory input from their five senses. It does not actually change anything in reality unless combined with another technology that has this ability.

This is demonstrated by the fact that the original Noah prototype device N.O.Z.O.M.I. made, prior to Noah II, before N.O.Z.O.M.I. found out about the Ir2 equation, was unable to realboot anything or physically alter reality. All the original Noah prototype was capable of doing was giving people sensory delusions (hallucinations), making them see/hear/etc. things differently from how things really are.

However, Visual Rebuilding is a necessary first step in making the Noah II artificial Gigalomaniac device that is the focus of ChäoS;HEAd, since while the Ir2 equation can turn delusions into reality, Visual Rebuilding is needed for projecting delusions into people’s brains. Without Visual Rebuilding, there would not be any shared delusions for the Ir2 equation to realboot out of the Dirac Sea, and it would be impossible to build an artificial Gigalomaniac device. This would mean only natural-born Gigalomaniacs would have the power to give other people delusions, without this technology.

In other SciADV media

This sections contains major spoilers for Steins;Gate, Steins;Gate 0 and Robotics;Notes.

Visual Rebuilding is also used in the Time Leap Machine in Steins;Gate and the Amadeus system in Steins;Gate 0, both of which were also created by people from Viktor Chondria University. More info on these devices can be found on their respective pages on the Steins;Gate wiki.

Robotics;Notes features a device known as Noah IV, which, despite being named after Noah II, is incapable of realbooting anything and is just an application of Visual Rebuilding for showing illusory images.