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Also since the last time i was here ANOTHER VR entertainment centre has opened up in a town near me:

I haven’t tried the “maze” yet (I’ll do that next time I’m in just to tick the box) but I did try “Richie’s Plank Experience”, a very fun game where you fly around the skyscrapers of an anonymous city with a jetpack, putting out fires.

It’s a great little distraction, very well done, with cool scenery and details – one of the the best I’ve played on VR yet. But it suffers from the old problem – it’s not a killer app or game, and although it’s great fun it’s also quite limited, so it doesn’t have a great deal of replay value (YouTube link below).

[quote quote=1378]Hi, I’m microdot, eheheehehhe[/quote]

Aha! As we suspected all along.

Anyway, wouldn’t that make you the same guy who told us many years ago that he only had “a year left to live”? If so, you’re leading a very active afterlife, may I say 😀 😀

In an update, it emerges my mother has been taken to hospital for what is expected to be several days. There aren’t many details but my sis says it’s not serious. As of tonight I’ll be heading back to my hometown to help out while she’s on the mend; I was intending to visit her anyway.

I’ve learned that Internet access will be patchy while I’m up North.

[quote quote=1367]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[/quote]

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, it’s 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 quote=1344]I made the time limit 200,000 minutes from post date. Not sure exactly how long that is but it’s long enough![/quote]

It turns that’s about 4 and 1/2 months. So, a little more wiggle room.

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endecker wrote:

In other news, a “delete” function would be handy. And if you could extend the time granted to edit a post before that button disappears that would be useful; I spotted an error I made in the VR thread I think the day after I posted it, and it’s too late to elegantly change it now

I will extend the time Im not sure why the default was set so short to begin with[/quote]

Thanks, Mike.