Will full VR break humanity?

[junkmaster1]

Full vr as in black mirror etc where you are truly 100% placed into the scenario with fully simulated sensations etc.

If I ever have access to such technology, I feel like I will spend almost all of my free time using it.

My ideal version would also piggy-back off of the user's brain to generate content based on the user's desires/intentions.

So for example if you were playing/living through skyrim and wanted to become high king the system would automatically generate a scenario for that to be possible based on your own ideas. So maybe some players would start talking with the various jarls and the game would generate dialogue for them to offer support for the players bid, while other players might start binding the draugur to their will in order to take skyrim by force.
And for all us horny mfs you could literally play any scenario you can imagine. "I wanna be younger/older/taller/shorter/fatter/fitter" and the ease at which you could indulge any fetish you can imagine no matter how niche or novel would allow for some truly terrifying degeneracy. You could also mesh the two types to turn normal games into AAA h-games. And maybe even experiences that temporarily rewire your own brain so you don't even realise it's a game and act as if it's all real and normal.

If we never see this in our lifetimes I hope at least some afterlife offers the ability to inhabit infinite alternate realities at one's leisure.

 

[nightstalks]

it depends on how much of an addictive personality someone has

 

[jbk304]

"Full vr as in black mirror etc where you are truly 100% placed into the scenario with fully simulated sensations etc."

Full immersive VR like say in Ready Player One. Yup that will cause a pretty good shift.

 

[MichealIsKing!]

Price, accessibility, comfort, technology (data storage, software, infrastructure to support it), and products designed exclusively with that product in mind are the major limiting factors that come to mind when it comes to Full Dive VR. No i don't think we will even live close to see it, and neither will our children's children.

With price and accessibility it needs to cheap enough to get into the hands of the masses or we go with the you "own nothing and will like it" model otherwise it will always just be a new toy for the mega rich and that doesn't really cause much innovation in the field.

Comfort it would need to be seamless or wearable at all times or at least more comfortable and convenient than a phone, but start by aiming for at least as convenient as a pc/console setup. Something like SAO's set up would be nice especially the movie version but that has other issues.

In regards to technological issues I think we will continue marching on at a steady pace with incremental improvements unless some "Jesus Tech" comes in and solves several those problems. It would need to be a new micro chip that is cheap and 100 times the processing power of our currents chips or essentially quantum computers the size of our current computers or even better the size of a cpu.

Modern VR is plagued by devs just porting old shit to VR to make a quick buck and that can't happen for the space to grow and be improved. It needs to go the Half Life Alyx approach. You need to want to buy these games and feel like you are missing out.

 

[Msm]

If a high enough percentage of humanity succumb to it; it might well be a contributing factor

 

[Wannabe]

A Matrix-like scenario is inevitable now, which is to say there's no stopping artificial intelligence from eventually taking over the world and then the solar system and then the galaxy. Assuming that it finds humans useful in some way (e.g., maybe as pets or something like that) and decides to populate terraformed planets with us, deep space travel will require something like VR to keep us occupied during those long journeys. Humans tend to want to wreck stuff, so it's best to keep us distracted/preoccupied/entertained.

 

[Republican Bear]

Break humanity no but man I can see all the new laws passing on what is acceptable to view/play.

Anyway were no where close to full VR or a full holo-deck yet.

 

[thgan]

a small part of it is also how much you like the people outside gaming situation even with the holodeck i would still want to play card games at a bar with my friends.

 

[ham2323]

it depends on how much of an addictive personality someone has

Full vr as in black mirror etc where you are truly 100% placed into the scenario with fully simulated sensations etc.

If I ever have access to such technology, I feel like I will spend almost all of my free time using it.

My ideal version would also piggy-back off of the user's brain to generate content based on the user's desires/intentions.

So for example if you were playing/living through skyrim and wanted to become high king the system would automatically generate a scenario for that to be possible based on your own ideas. So maybe some players would start talking with the various jarls and the game would generate dialogue for them to offer support for the players bid, while other players might start binding the draugur to their will in order to take skyrim by force.
And for all us horny mfs you could literally play any scenario you can imagine. "I wanna be younger/older/taller/shorter/fatter/fitter" and the ease at which you could indulge any fetish you can imagine no matter how niche or novel would allow for some truly terrifying degeneracy. You could also mesh the two types to turn normal games into AAA h-games. And maybe even experiences that temporarily rewire your own brain so you don't even realise it's a game and act as if it's all real and normal.

If we never see this in our lifetimes I hope at least some afterlife offers the ability to inhabit infinite alternate realities at one's leisure.

VR only has a niche of enthusiasts. Meta is hoping for money in hopes of bringing more people together. If profit margins are low, investments to improve the technology will also be low Better this way, normal people are not capable of distinguishing fiction from reality. The more people there are, the more they add stupid rules. A girl filed a sexual harassment complaint in VR (I think in Spain). Because some avatars had surrounded her and made allusions I believe in Vr Chat. The police had opened a case because the girl was shaken as if she had suffered real harassment

 

[ViruzTeddy]

i think yea the real life part will become a mess IMO

 

[YouDontKnowMe]

We've got awhile before we get to that point

 

[ejt2223]

I feel like there's a ton of overhead involved in getting it set up and doing exactly what you want. Sometimes it's worth it, but sometimes simpler is better. Same thing for actual sex, in my opinion. Obviously sometimes the experience with my wife is amazing, but on the other hand, sometimes simpler is better and I want to do my own thing. Same for her, and I'm cool with that. Anyway, I think VR will be like that. It will be a nice novelty with its own advantages and disadvantages, but it won't take over anything. It will basically just be something else you can throw into the mix for variety.

 

[Fall12Dr]

I don't think there is still enough development on the subject and for that point the laws or even prohibitions of the countries occur, for a total immersion something would be needed that probably requires some type of neural link even if people are stupid enough to allow it completely the countries won't allow it