This Is Only The Beginning

For both AR, and VR utilizations.

For AR, or assisted reality, the beginning could be very useful indeed; especially if you wanted reasonably capable individuals to do skill activities ordinarily only done by specialists. A prospect made all the more conceivable if the task in question already had a lot of stored experience that could be rendered to a good, context specific AI. Because, in that context, you have succeeded in de emphasizing specialization; because de emphasis, in that context, is all you really want to try to do. Assuming, of course, you wanted to come up with another way of operating.

For VR utilizations it will be a disappointment, at least initially. Not only are they going to need a lot better resolutions delivered to each eye, they'll need the full body, haptic setup, and better physical motion, to digital scenario integration (the running and jumping and whatnot, in a limited space problem), in order to really make it take off. The thing is, though, anybody who gets something even pretty close to, "sorta real," is likely to blast into the next dimension of profit potential. So much so, in fact, that it will make all the cryptocurrency, gold rushing, now going on, look tame in comparison. You only need pay attention to how much Magic Leap has gotten in VC capital so far to see how much the big guys are already salivating over the potential here, to understand this.

Ultimately, certainly, they will figure out a way to directly connect to the spinal column, so that direct digital, to electro neural impulse, will be achieved; at least as far as the primary senses are concerned. And after that all bets are off as to how far you can take addiction into fantasy, and fantasy into addiction.

Fortunately, or not, depending on your point of view, the planet will not let them get anywhere near completing this madness.

If you were of the mind that we ought to try and fix things, and thought that there might even be a chance to do so, if we could work together enough; if you were to do that, though, you might want to consider also putting some effort into taking the main incentive away that spurs folks to this madness in the first place. And since you are going to have to mobilize as a nation anyway to do the fixing, why not just do a bit more, organizationally, to make both the fixing possible at all, but also so as to do away with what is essentially a hothouse environment for the manipulation of all of our base instincts.  The very system that made us have to stop everything and do the planet fix that Capitalism itself has only just started to fully begin to accept exists, much less take responsibility for.

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