Hey, the Zucc looks slightly less creepy as a VR puppet in that propaganda clip. I guess that's something.

For real, though. All of the marketing is "it's coming, it will be everywhere" which makes it sound roughly as appealing and positive as Covid. What is supposed to be the upside to the proles that are being pressured to take this all in? No matter what I read about it, it reads like a threat more than a promise.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    3 years ago

    virtual reality has been The Future for half a century now. imo it speaks to a society that, after the breakneck pace of the industrial revolution, the advances of the "space age," and the cyberneticization/financialization of the economy, has hit a wall, can no longer imagine that technology has the capacity to improve the lived-in world, only that it can provide increasingly elaborate ways to fill us with greater volumes of stimuli.