That was a fascinating (if somewhat creepy!) story. I do wonder about the brain-body effects of wearing a suit like that. For instance, will it simulate pressure from, say, physical contact? So if you are fighting something in game and get punched?
I imagine it would but it would just register as a light pressure which could have the rather fun effect of making you feel like superwo/man. Some monster attacking you and you barely feel it. Overall though, I think people will get used to VR and they'll iron out any kinks pretty fast. What's perhaps more worrisome, is people spending all their lives living in VR at that point...
I was just talking about that in another comment- the more I think about it the more I believe people will become addicted to the vr world and prefer it to the real world.
Most addiction occurs in large part due to something missing from a persons life. They are not satisfied or happy so that leaves room for whatever the addiction is to come fill that void...
VR will probably be safer and happier than the real world for a number of people, especially considering the fact that loneliness is now a deadlier epidemic than smoking and obesity. It can simulate human contact. But, on the other hand, it may be a healing thing for the chronically lonely...
Who knows what the virtual reality future holds?! lol
Actually think about it,
Sometimes I feel that life is a dream.
Huttons Paradox.
You are not alone in that...
I am very lonely.
Because you didn't care about me.
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Oh it's going to happen for sure. There are already many people with video game addictions and I can only see VR exacerbating that. Then when you have sandbox world's where people can do what they please (already being developed by a company called decentraland - think second life in VR) there will be an opportunity to have jobs and actual lives in the virtual world. It's quite crazy when you think about it... Actually, this is giving me an idea for a very cool scifi story 😆🤔
Wow... So you can put on your goggles and "go to work" in the game? Like walk to your shop and open it and deal with the other virtual players, or customers, and exchange goods for crypto? Something like that?
Exactly like that! It's still early days: they've just been selling parcels of land in their virtual world, but in time, people will be able to start building anything they want on their parcels and then I reckon things are going to get very, very interesting :)
So now we're going to have to but two houses- one in the virtual world and one in which to reside while you're paying off the mortgage to the one in your vr world...
These are most definitely interesting times in which to live!
Hopefully the VR ones are a bit cheaper 😉 Although I suppose if you're planning on living purely in VR you can get away with your RL house being like one of those Japanese cube apartments 😜
Ha! Yes! Good point lol
Cyberpunk literature has been predicting this for decades...
Great comment, diving a little deeper into the topic. Thanks for your wonderful comment.