The Importance Of Virtual Reality

[Webster]

(Reddit) The Importance Of Virtual Reality

When people think of VR, they're probably going to picture something like the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive and they'll imagine it'll get better and better over time. That's not what VR is, that's just how you access VR at the moment. VR is not a technology, it's nothing less than the extension of the Internet to the mind and DARPA claims they'll have brain computer interfaces (BCIs) within 5 years.

BCIs wont just allow you to control machines with your thoughts though, they'll allow the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the mute to speak. They'll allow a whole new level of immersion in VR. This technology will be miniaturised and eventually implanted. With advances in molecular assembly and disassembly revolutionising the concepts of raw materials and recycling, and nanoswarms revolutionising the manipulation of physical reality, people will be able to communicate with that technology just by thinking and by extension shape reality by thinking too.

With a BCI implant, a person will eventually gain what is essentially real world "telekinetic" and "telepathic" abilities, along with the ability to "think things into existence". Those abilities will be able to be used from within VR and with live camera feeds to render the physical environment, you have augmented reality (AR) too.

Now, it's a well know fact that the porn industry are major drivers of technology and VR is the perfect opportunity for them. With a BCI implant, you'd be able to have perfectly realistic sex in VR or the most fantastical sex imaginable.

With continued progress in automation and AI removing the need for people to work and providing them with UBI instead, people will spend more time in VR - learning, socialising and enjoying themselves. When you combine all these elements, people are going to find they don't want to leave VR but they'll have to in order to take care of their bodies in the least. This will lead to the development of life-support tanks so that people can remain in VR and with life extension technologies providing immortality, having kids will become a thing of the past. There will be "warehouses" full of these life-support tanks as it will be more efficient than everyone having one in their house.

At some point in the future, we will develop the ability to transfer our mind into computational matter and the most logical place for that matter to be located is in orbit around the Sun. By the time it comes to make that transition, we'll be used to living in VR and using technology to interact in physical reality. We will be used to networking with other minds and shaping realities with our thoughts. VR will have prepared and trained us, and shown us how our body limits the capabilities of our mind. It will have virtualised society and life. When the time comes, we'll be ready and waiting. (Reddit user Marcus Orlyius)

...thoughts?

 

[Smiley]

I'll take the blue pill for free, Alex.

Now hook me into the Matrix, would you?