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Small, incremental improvements don't make shockwaves like the old massive tech leaps used to. (lemmy.world)

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[–] jpreston2005 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Having a direct brain interface game, that's realistic enough to overcome the Uncanny Valley, would destroy peoples lives. People would, inevitably, prefer their virtual environment to the real one. They'd end up wasting away, plugged into some machine. It would lend serious credence to the idea of a simulated universe, and reduce the human experience by replacing it with an improved one. Shit, give me a universe wherein I can double-jump, fly, or communicate with animals, and I'd have a hard time returning to this version.

We could probably get close with a haptic feedback suit, a mechanism that allows you to run/jump in any direction, and a VR headset, but there would always be something tethering you to reality. But a direct brain to machine interaction would have none of that, it would essentially be hijacking our own electrical neural network to run simulations. Much like Humans trying to play Doom on literally everything. It would be as amazing as it was destructive, finally realizing the warnings from so many parents before its time: "that thing'll fry your brain."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Tbf, it's kinda bullshit that we can't double jump IRL. Double jumping just feels right, like it's something we should be able to do.

Yeah, no, it'd likely be really awful for us. I mean, can you imagine what porn would be like on that? That's a fermi paradox solution right there. I could see the tech having a lot of really great applications, too, like training simulations for example, but the video game use case is simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People would, inevitably, prefer their virtual environment to the real one. They’d end up wasting away, plugged into some machine. It would lend serious credence to the idea of a simulated universe, and reduce the human experience by replacing it with an improved one.

Have you considered making the real world better?

[–] JcbAzPx 1 points 1 day ago

Nah, that would cut into profits.