[ExI] Spaceflight: The only valid case for waiting

[Mike Dougherty]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 5:02 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I keep waiting for VR to take off. AR has to some extent, but not
> enough given the promise. I thought by now we'd all be wearing
> something like Google Glass and spending most of our day in VR.
>

If we bend the definition some, we could consider RPG and MMO games to have
already taken off as VR worlds.  Whether old school tile based or the much
higher resolutions of Unreal or Unity, the sense of otherworldy self is
suggestive enough that we can use them to reflect on Self0.

If you consider how much time we spend staring into glass rectangles,  we
are spending considerable time in non-physical reality. Maybe that's why we
don't call it Virtual Reality: we keep rolling all this tech into regular
reality.
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