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This reminds me of the scene from Guardians of the Galaxy 2 where the fleet of drones / fighters were all remote – same with the last scene in Black Panther. It’s so crazy that video game skills are military skills now and that fighters don’t have to be in the thing they are fighting with. VR is a weapon, VR is a crazy thing man
Yeah, but it’s also surgery, recreation, therapy, exploration, data visualisation…I know an astronomer who used an Oculus Rift to virtually explore the surface of a comet. Imagine how valuable that experience was to him. Technology will often blow both ways; do away with all nuclear materials, and you also lose nuclear power. If we got rid of all poisons we wouldn’t be able to perform chemotherapy, its the same old story. Me, I’m most interested in VR for its potential to change or expand our idea of what reality even is. Even the tech that we’re using right now has already transformed concepts that we used to think were pretty well-established. In the old days, you *discussed* things with people who could actually hear you, you *befriended* people whom you’d actually met and had reason to trust, and – absurdly to our eyes – you could only join a *community* by travelling to where it was physically based. If what used to be rock-solid ideas like those ones can be transformed by the kind of basic tech we’re now using, where will VR take us?[/quote]
fuck that sounds way more sophisticated than my VR interests – I’m personally only interested in giant hooters bouncing an inch from my face ahhah