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jenny14 75T  
90051 posts
8/17/2015 3:35 pm

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I love your vision


A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw

Jenny


jaykay48 75M
11440 posts
8/17/2015 4:20 pm

This is sort of what the movie "Surrogates" was about. (http://alt.com). I can understand the advantage of living in a virtual world. I believe the future of space exploration may, out of necessary, require inhabited virtual avatars (Robots doing the actual roving while we stay home and monitor them in virtual, seeing what they see, etc.) when visiting worlds that are simply too inconvenient to visit in person. (Due to high gravity, extreme temperatures, low or high atmospheric pressure, or (as in the case with a gas giant) no solid ground to walk on. But as far as missing out on the touch, smell and taste of a lover, I'd rather be there in person.


lastguymn 56M

8/17/2015 5:46 pm

I hope I never see the day when that level of virtual reality enters our lives. In that case, we might as well all be brains in a vat, all just a part of the Matrix. Humanity has, since its inception, been driven to explore and experience things, and personally, I view living in a purely virtual world as tantamount to spending life in captivity. Is it really a family "reunion" at the Eiffel tower if you are all thousands of miles away just experiencing it on a screen, and with the flip of a switch, you can move the entire thing to the surface of Mars? Is any trip more special than any other when you never leave your living room? Can you really experience the ocean without smelling the sea spray, feeling the tide lap against your ankles, and taste the salt water on your lips?

If that's the future, sign me up as one of the people who who goes out and actually sets up the cameras for all the rest of the armchair tourists. It's a big, beautiful world...I'd rather experience it firsthand.


~LastGuy

"It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere." -- Keith Richards

"There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities." -- Ray Charles


lastguymn 56M

8/17/2015 10:15 pm

I think I'm coming at this from a different starting point than most other people. I have a job that I work 100% of the time from my home office. When my kids are away, I can easily go three or four days without seeing another human being if I wanted to (and I live in a fairly populated area--over 100k). It can become an incredibly isolating existence if you let it, and I think virtual technology could push a lot of more introverted people into very physically disconnected existences.

This is not to say that I am anti-technology. Quite the contrary. If I had my way, the U.S. would divert the trillions of dollars we waste on the military and put it all into improving and discovering new sources of clean, renewable, and cheap energy and expanding and modernizing our infrastructure, so travel would be an option available to more and more people with less and less impact on the environment.

While I can appreciate the value of virtual technologies in education and other communication activities, it's my hope that technology frees us all to get out and use one my favorite technologies, GPS, even more than I already do.


~LastGuy

"It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere." -- Keith Richards

"There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities." -- Ray Charles


tinkerfun 46F
11150 posts
8/18/2015 11:13 am

So you would never need to experience a night-time if you so desire? Distances can feel so long so I would be up for being to travels many miles in an instant! And yes, we could all have a party where ever we would want to, starting with someone nice in the Caribbean perhaps?


aHedonist 51M
7510 posts
8/18/2015 1:38 pm

After it showers in a rainforest is when the leeches come out.

So there's a plus of a virtual reality... Those little inconveniences like that don't have to intrude. In fact, they don't even have to exist... We can now have a leech free rainforest experience can't we?

Perfect!!!

Well except for the part about it not being realistic until you've got a leech on you. Good narcotics have the same effect without the need for all that technology - just sayin.


Doc_Sonar 66M
24589 posts
8/20/2015 3:21 pm



SONuva -
Motherf -
Gotd...


this was out-fucking-standing Pyx...Love the way your and your Unc's Minds work and how you expressed it.

And yes, I like rejecting B/W and either/or as a matter of habit.
I've not read anything quite this evocative in some time.
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So what do you think of a world like this?
I'm sure I'd appreciate it. Like wanking to fucking ~ not a substitute, just an enhancement, an addition...More is More.
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I - like whoever's read this post I suspect - appreciate the shit out of you!

You ... becoming an Imagineer, are you? Be easy if you wanted to I think.

BD~
P
xoz

PS I also thought it excellent how you responded to those that didn't seem to understand your Intent at first.


... compassionate and Well Done...

Doc_Sonar

I advocate Simplicity, Patience & Compassion...to the extent that doing so won't threaten or harm My boundaries or Me. ~ Doc_Sonar


Breathe Deeply~
Peace


Doc_Sonar 66M
24589 posts
10/19/2015 4:30 pm

Quoting 2ndTimeHere:

"You should look up some of the recent developments in tactile telepresence. MIT media lab has demonstrated a 3D display that allows a remote user to handle objects in the real world. watch?v=lvtfD_rJ2hE Others are working to develop a tactile telepresence that would allow you to feel virtual reality. Check out the Tesla suit."
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I will!
YTB

BD~
P

PS
Fascinating!

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Doc_Sonar

I advocate Simplicity, Patience & Compassion...to the extent that doing so won't threaten or harm My boundaries or Me. ~ Doc_Sonar


Breathe Deeply~
Peace


Doc_Sonar 66M
24589 posts
10/19/2015 4:31 pm

Andy there's this:

crisis-response . com/comment/blogpost.php?post=169

cnet . com/news/tesla-suit-hopes-to-add-full-body-touch-to-your-vr-experience-tomorrow-daily-178/


Maybe I should invest a little bit in Tesla, Pyx...
Mm.

BD~
P
YIUDD
xoz

Doc_Sonar

I advocate Simplicity, Patience & Compassion...to the extent that doing so won't threaten or harm My boundaries or Me. ~ Doc_Sonar


Breathe Deeply~
Peace



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