How long, if ever, do you think it will be before we have immersive VR experiences that are sufficient to completely fool our brains? I'm talking stuff like Ready Player One, the Matrix and certain episodes of Black Mirror like San Junipero, USS Callister and Fighting Vipers.
Originally when I started writing this post, I got deep right off the bat. But I realized a lot of people probably don't feel like getting into the weeds of the ramifications of this topic and want to discuss it on the basis of tech alone. For those folks, feel free to go straight into the poll.
However, if you want to psycho-analyse me on why I care so much about this topic, click the spoiler.
Originally when I started writing this post, I got deep right off the bat. But I realized a lot of people probably don't feel like getting into the weeds of the ramifications of this topic and want to discuss it on the basis of tech alone. For those folks, feel free to go straight into the poll.
However, if you want to psycho-analyse me on why I care so much about this topic, click the spoiler.
I don't know about you all, but one of the reasons I've always been obsessed with video games is the opportunity to escape reality.
Basically, I've never been free to be who I want to be or to have the life I'd like to live, in the world I want to live in. Short of a wish from a magic genie, I'll never have the life I truly want. And as time goes by I get more and more depressed and become fixated on that fact, so much so that most of my waking hours are taken up by day dreaming about being someone else, someplace else.
I find that it's really starting to affect my ability to socialize. I find myself being even more withdrawn than I used to be, even in a room full of people. Basically all I feel like doing is waiting around for enough time to pass for my VR dreams to come true so that I can escape being me.
Signed, future VR simulation addict.
Basically, I've never been free to be who I want to be or to have the life I'd like to live, in the world I want to live in. Short of a wish from a magic genie, I'll never have the life I truly want. And as time goes by I get more and more depressed and become fixated on that fact, so much so that most of my waking hours are taken up by day dreaming about being someone else, someplace else.
I find that it's really starting to affect my ability to socialize. I find myself being even more withdrawn than I used to be, even in a room full of people. Basically all I feel like doing is waiting around for enough time to pass for my VR dreams to come true so that I can escape being me.
Signed, future VR simulation addict.