THE SCI-FI GURU WHO PREDICTED GOOGLE EARTH EXPLAINS SILICON VALLEY’S LATEST OBSESSION
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THE SCI-FI GURU WHO PREDICTED GOOGLE EARTH EXPLAINS SILICON VALLEY’S LATEST OBSESSION
Mirrorworld means being able to reproduce that Travis Scott Fortnite concert in a park instead of our basement, with real people, whenever we want, or looking at a restaurant from the street and being able to see the menu and pictures of the dishes. It means having a full suite of digital tools available to enhance our physical experience.
Packy McCormick • Oh Snap! 👻
Since we experience our environment through our senses, any virtual-reality generator must be able to manipulate our senses, overriding their normal functioning so that we can experience the specified environment instead of our actual one.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
it is the phenomenon of virtual reality in general that occupies a central place in the scheme of things, not any particular virtual-reality generator. So I want to consider virtual reality in as general a way as possible.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
