What happens to humanity after we develop Virtual Reality? - General

[QUOTE=Doriol;16193475]No one will ever land on the moon. The Earth is flat.[/QUOTE] We will probably be dead before it does.

There's a movie coming out about that. It's about robots and people who control them. movie: Surrogates Looks pretty cool, it's got bruce willis in it.

[QUOTE=Doriol;16193475]No one will ever land on the moon. The Earth is flat.[/QUOTE] The universe revolves around the earth

[QUOTE=Arbitration;16192957]If we did that we would have some sort of brain interface. If that was the case we could make remote control bodies and not even bother with the virtual part [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060807122110.htm[/url]

[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyGunz;16193496]Nothing?[/QUOTE] I think you don't understand the question. When we develop VR we will be able to do anything. We can just think of something, and as long as we are hooked up to the VR machine it will happen. So why live life when we can do anything we want in VR?

If were smart we'll have physical counter-parts. So sure were sitting in a room with no chance of being harmed, but on the other hand we're still getting things done physically.

VR would take the place of your leisure activity, that's all. Instead of going online, you'd go in VR. Instead of playing Rock Band in your living room with friends, you'd jam in a VR band. Instead of going out with your gf and hoping you at least get a bj, you'd go in VR and get some. Of course, the VR version of 'get some' would be some electrode stimulating your nads, not a hot chick or even a fat chick for that matter, but who'd complain? Not me. As long as I can dump my bucket in a mouth, you think I care if it's an electronic one instead of organic? As for space travel, well it'd make it a lot easier. You send mapping robots and satellites. Then you use the data to create a completely accurate VR world. Now scientists can literally walk/fly/drive around in it and examine anything they'd like without leaving Earth. Engineers can build things in it, with accurate physics and all. You know how today they use supercomputers to model nuclear explosions when developing new weapons? So they don't have to set one off in real life? VR would make that look primitive in comparison.

[QUOTE=Doriol;16193413]Yes they would.[/QUOTE] Most people don't even know what a kilobit is or what gigahertz are.

[QUOTE=Doriol;16193319]What does censorship have to do with virtual reality?[/QUOTE] Okay wrong analogy lemme' rework this.

[QUOTE=Faren;16193951]Most people don't even know what a kilobit is or what gigahertz are.[/QUOTE] Are we talking about your average point and clicker or people who actually know anything about computers?

I was about to mention Cortex Command but someone beat me.

mm virtual suassages but anyway it would probably like someone said only rich people get it or millitary for training reasons

[quote=yomother;16194502]vr won't take over since a lot of people aren't idiots and prefer real life.[/quote] qft

I think that human is so social creature, that we would still go to meet our friends IRL. Though the VR was superhyperrealistic and everything seemed real, people still would like to have REAL touch and REAL friends in REAL life.

[QUOTE=YoMother;16194502]VR won't take over since a lot of people aren't idiots and prefer real life.[/QUOTE] You're saying this on the internet.

im not trying to advertise but i made a video on the subject [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_38UKXMA3Qs&feature=channel_page[/url]

[QUOTE=Death0nWings;16192978]I suppose a voluntary view of The Matrix.[/QUOTE] That's what the matrix was originally supposed to be. A voluntary virtual reality.

[QUOTE=Strongbadmw;16193179][url]http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm[/url] Read AD 2030 at the top[/QUOTE] I don't think that would happen in the way described. I think technological singularity will happen sooner or later, but it won't be sudden and certainly won't occur as close as 2030. [editline]08:18AM[/editline] Remember kids, artificial intelligence is never a match for natural stupidity.

it will be like that vault in fallout 3 because if we saw the real world we would kill areselfs because it is destroyed of bombs and globel warming

This thread reminds me of Fallout 3.

Depends how extreme you mean when you say VR I suppose. If it's just a really high tech way to play games then it'll never take over good ol' human interaction! But if someone can come up with a way to touch, feel, talk to and interact with other lifelike human beings...how will we know what the difference is? Interesting topic.

I'm not sure. If this were sending signals to the brain directly then I heard something about there being a way to basically slow down time. When I say slow down time I mean in the VR world you could be experiencing 1,000 years of life when in reality it has only been a few seconds. Couple this with the fact that people could do whatever they want in Virtual Reality and be whoever they wanted to be then of course I can see people wanting to stay in these worlds for their whole life as there are practically no disadvantages. You could program it in such a way that you live out a life which is completely the same as the one you were experiencing before VR and in such a way that you didn't know you were living in a VR world. When you then 'die' in that world you wake up and choose a different world to live in or just to start again whatever. Of course I'm not even sure if that thing about time seeming longer to the user is true or even remotely plausible but if it is then you can imagine all the benefits this would entail. Basically if someone had the choice of living in a VR world which to them would feel [B]exactly[/B] the same as the real world while also having the obvious benefits VR would give then why should they live in the real world? Interesting thing to think about and I don't know if what I just said made any sense, it's probably just some incoherant ramblings.

I find your points valid, NinjaPanda. That's a curious thought that I've had before as well.

So assuming you do get Virtual reality how are you going to make photos of other planet's textures? If a robot goes there then you may as well live the real world and go with the robot. Plus, in VR you could have GOD MODE and get ragdolled or slapped 1000 times.

[QUOTE=agun;16195982]So assuming you do get Virtual reality how are you going to make photos of other planet's textures? If a robot goes there then you may as well live the real world and go with the robot.[/QUOTE] Huh?

Whos going to build something identical to reality when we have reality?

[QUOTE=Lagitech;16194698]I think that human is so social creature, that we would still go to meet our friends IRL. Though the VR was superhyperrealistic and everything seemed real, people still would like to have REAL touch and REAL friends in REAL life.[/QUOTE] :q:

[QUOTE=Dan2593;16196110]Whos going to build something identical to reality when we have reality?[/QUOTE] The whole point of virtual reality is to make your own reality.

I wouldn't live in vr. I'd rather stay where I am thankyou.

i hope this doesn't happen, it will probably lead to the end of the human race when everyone stops doing manual labour and stuff