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The future of virtual reality is far more than just video games. Silicon Valley sees the creation of virtual worlds as the ultimate free-market solution to a political problem. In a world of increasing wealth inequality, environmental disaster, and political instability, why not sell everyone a device that whisks them away to a virtual world free of pain and suffering?
Jesus Christ, just sell everyone opioids. It's cheaper and North America is already doing it.
Crazy idea: What if instead we seize those billionaires’ wealth and use it to reduce pain and suffering in the real world?
Given declining living standards right now with people living in smaller and shittier living spaces that can't really accommodate VR, this seems as futile as it is morally repugnant.
Yeah there's not much to be missed however I personally love Deisim (a god sim) I enjoy seeing these little humans worship me. Oh and playing No Mans Sky (I do creative to not deal with resources and dying) is awe inducing each time I take off. I may never get to explore the stars but just virtually doing so is absolutely fantastic.
I usr VR extensively and I find it doubtful. It's going to be a long long time before you can VR a Beef Rossini in place of your company store bought protein cubes.
Me and a friend of mine have had this idea for awhile about creating a framework for federated VR using ActivityPub. The idea would be to create a universal federated backend on which people can create worlds/spaces using something like Godot Engine.
VR isn’t mainstream yet, but I think it eventually will be for various reasons, and it might be good to lay the groundwork right now for a social VR platform that is open and democratic, rather than wait for tech corporations to build their own virtual tyrannies.
This sounds really interesting, and I wouldn't mind hearing more about it. Our idea was something like Neos or VRchat, but free and open source with the ability for people to host their own servers and link them to the rest of the ecosystem.
Honestly, though, I really don't yet have much experience with this sort of thing which is why it has stayed just an idea, but I'd love to see the idea take off in the hands of those who are more capable.
Don't worry, the environment and economy will collapse before it gets the chance.
Environmental collapse is actually one reason why I think it will start to become more common, especially in the corporate world. It would basically be an easy way for companies to start or expand with minimal resource use. The vast majority of desk jobs could be transplanted to virtual work spaces, which would mean no need for commutes, physical offices, work visas, etc., which would be a boost to a specific company's profits in the midst of a squeeze on global resource use. A depressing future, but one that I think is somewhat realistic as capital attempts to adjust to issues posed by climate change.
That's where the economic crash comes into play. Most of Silicon Valley is financed by a massive venture-capital bubble, companies are pumping up their numbers with reverse factoring, and The Line has been so divorced from reality you wouldn't know we're in a recession from looking at it. VR is a resource intensive luxury good that barely has a market share as is. I'd be surprised if it's not one of the first tech industries to go bottom up.
If a majority of people spent their time in a virtual paradise capitalists would find a way to make you work inside of there and extract value from it
Far from being a land of unrestrained freedom and palatial palaces for everyone, Fortnite is a popular video game that sometimes hosts impressive live events while slowly selling its inhabitants goofy costumes.
Get a load of this writing. How many redundant adjectives can you pack into a sentence?
i sweat too much to use vr and now the whole ass world will be vr this is bullshit :angry-hex:
