Virtual Reality is Not What You Think

Less of augmented reality and more of a relocated reality, with companies cutting costs by doing no more physical representation.

Digital experience can only cater our eyes and brain, i dont know if its ad beneficial as compared to material experience wherein every molecule of our body will benefit.

I do cybersecurity and software development, this seems really cool for like 10 minutes

The issue is that the more tech I worked with, the less I wish to participate in these corporate-developed nonsense, especially with the ads and whatnot

Also, not to mention a complete cybersecurity issue

Well I'm in love again! Keep it up you're doing great!

I want AR to be a tool. Imagine your car isn't starting. You put on your AR headset, download the manual, the headset scans the car and highlights what to look for and what steps to go through. Would I wear an AR headset to pretty up my neighborhood while all the local businesses bombard my eyes with adds and with a tempting "Get the add-free version" prompt in the top corners of my field of view? Fuck no!

The baby crying in the first minute had me rip my headphones out my ears thinking my kid had fallen out of bed or something.

Another opiate of the 99.9%

I would like have a BF too that's makes that production to me for free 🥲

Could be educational however vulnerable to profiteering and propaganda the trust between teachers and students might become supper sized mental illness and what of legal interactions? No I would not back this one in at least for a few thousand years yet.

hell yeah being poor is ugly and oppressive< graffiti is the solution twice over

marry me (heart emoji) using Microsoft Surface Keyboard

Love watching your videos. Giving me a lot to think about in my own personal life, and goals in the sense of being self reliant, as well as part of a community.

I’m sorry, but this is downright dystopian. The idea that fake vr trees would be some kind of equitable substitute for low income areas…it’s unfathomable how anyone could see that as positive and not deeply depressing is beyond me.

and how well is that VR revolution doing? How many people do you know who have them and if they do, how much do they still use it, if at all any longer...... Almost everyone in my house hold has a VR head set, when we got them we used them daily, but after a few months, once a week, a little later, maybe once a month. Now they are all collecting dust with no real want to put them back on. And with the prices of them, limitations in using and the issues when using, VR seems too much to deal with. Its much easier and cheaper to use an computer, xbox or play station. If VR stays on this path, it will be nothing more then a novelty for most of the world. Does it have a place in the world..... maybe....... but its not something we really need.

and when you mention that communal space with VR head set, there is something that is missing from that space, the actual human next to you. there is a reason that the chocolate taste better with those around you, you are tasting it together. smelling it together. You are feeling it together. You are hearing the area around you together. There is a chance to touch the person next to you. A VR head set can give you an idea of all that, but not truly give you that. That is why all those spaces, like libraries and living rooms grow as they do, they have all those parts in mind as well. and you dont have to have anything attached to you. VR, you have to get home, put on your head set, wait for it to boot up, log in, go threw a menu, hope the batteries work, change out the batteries maybe, so on and so forth, it can never take the place of all the experience of truly walking into a room and seeing those smiling faces of those you are about to hug......

I think all these new technologies sound good in the paper, but ultimately they are faced with the harshness of something a digital world can never overcome: actual reality.
By the moment all we have is possibilities but it could just as well create new spaces with new content, as it might create lies for people to get absorbed by, and then eventually it comes down to power, who gets more powerful, the one who controls virtual reality, or perhaps the one who lives in actual reality and isn't subject to lies. It could also bring people together just as it might lead individuals to become more isolated in their own fantasy worlds. I think there's something inherently dystopian in imagining IE a world where reality becomes a grey and ruined "wasteland" of neglected environments, but everyone keeps living under the delusion that it's a beautiful garden, and it's far from the present, but it's still a possibility that technologies like this create dependence, to the point where people starts loosing the ability to differentiate fantasy from reality.

I think rather than beautification, it will go the other way. Why build a stunning building when you can go for a more brutalistic and cheaper approach, relying on augmented reality to improve the environment

Very interesting video

answering to the very first words of wisdom from the video, people actually do that without glasses, they just choose to ignore the things they dont want to adknowledge

Reality is too expensive. And it's only gonna get more expensive. That's why many of us young people today can't afford a house. Physical space is becoming more and more inaccessible and virtuality offers us an alternative. As our cities get bigger and bigger, our transport costs increase and we prefer to meet our friends on the other side of the city online. It is not exactly the same, but it is a cheap alternative.

Nothing good is going to come from this. Many don't want it and crave the old ways.

Of all the videos i've watched in this channel, none has gotten me as uncomfortable as this one, most possibly due to how close we are for this to become actual reality, & also because it's definitely gonna be more ugly than pretty in more ways than one. when it comes to AR, i'd usually picture it as a way to augment our reality with bits of info & certain interfaces to facilitate a more convenient way of life for the user, never realizing that there are people out there enthusiastically trying to develop AR as beautification projects, to the point of the end of the overlayed reality becomes utterly unrecognizable from the actual reality. that itself made me uncomfortable. it screams of fakeness & a looming dystopia. couple that with ads that only the rich could afford to turn off & everyone else is gonna be forced to watch them all the time, the whole thing just becomes so intrusive & obnoxious that i doubt i'd ever wanna leave the house if that ever becomes a reality.

While i'm not entirely against the use of AR, & i don't have any problems with beautification projects involving only minor touchups or sprucing up smaller & rather bland details, i choose to live in a quiet suburb in a satellite city for a reason, & that's to avoid all the blinding lights at night & neon fakeness so prevalent in very high-density big cities. i certainly don't want that in my relatively quaint, quiet & very real surroundings being invaded by such in-your-face fakeness at a scale that i can't do shit about, at minimum cost to the perpetrators.

It's all nice and dandy, except technological advancements are linked to energy access... and once petrol is out, so is our way of life.
Hydrogen maybe an alternative but we're not there yet.
Anyway, since then capitalism will probably collapse under the weight of its contradictions.

Nature is not good because it is multi sensory. Sleep depravation as torture and war are also very multi sensory and they are not good. That is a very midwit comment. Truth is, we don't know why being in nature is good but we can guess it must be related to us evolving in nature and for nature.

I’m a little worried that while I’m walking through Paradise I’ll trip over piles of Festering Garbage that looks like Wildflowers

I'm pretty sure social intercourse in a public space is illegal... 😮😮😮😮

I’m not sure if I like being around people but I love the fact and idea

Incredible take on AI implementation on our physical spaces.

Update: Not a distant future anymore Vision Pro is working on this at the very moment in 2024

I don't want to see the societal and psychological problems that can arise with people whose perception of reality can be constantly augmented with added layers of stimuli. We are already seeing severe issues with people addicted to their smartphones, and those are just little screens that a person can't be on 100% of the time. AR glasses can take all the existing problems, multiply them by 1000 and add in new issues with people losing their connection to reality.

Constant stimulation is actually not a good thing. Many people nowadays can't just sit and think. Take away a person's phone and have them sit in a waiting room for 5 minutes is probably torture for many. Maybe that's why everyone is so on edge nowadays.

It also probably desensitizes people as well. We need the boring and mundane to truly appreciate something remarkable.

As a side story of his "Blue Ant" trilogy, William Gibson explores "Locative Art", which is art works that only exists in AR, but are site specific - in other words, they depict in 3D something (often gruesome) that took place in a specific space. Probably impossible in the early 2000s, at the time the books were written, but totally doable now.

The book Warcross comes to mind on this one.

There are many delusional people so things would only get worse with AR VR 😅

Having experiences with strangers has been shown to make you happier, kinder, less stressed. The idea that we're going to all hike in our own virtual world sounds horrific to me

I'd like to see an augmented reality where people can enrich our world with digital assets. However, your vision of creating fake environments with virtual trees is creepy. The visual pleasure of a tree is one of the least important features of a tree. I do not like the idea of tricking us to believe we live in a wonderful dreamworld when in reality we live in a dumpyard.

That gap will never be closed. Just look at online gaming. “F2P” game that caters only to the “P2P” players. Then add in what you just brought up. It’ll only get worse

Y'all getting poorer by choice, lol

Eventually, microchip implants in the brain will develop enough to literally trick your brain into smelling and feeling the things you see in AR/VR. Life will wind up being very different for people without the disposable income to afford this technology, while the rich can ignore social problems because they don't have to see or otherwise have any interactions that indicate there are any problems. I'm concerned that if we can't regulate tech companies into behaving ethically because they continue spending massive amounts of money to lobby the government, what will our future really look like?

The old game Syndicate 2 had the usual urban dystopic buggery. The chipping tech used to control company agents and alter their neurochemistry in the first game had been adapted to the larger population on a limited level.

This included a VR part giving chipped people visions of a world brighter than the one they inhabited. The company security goon with a rifle looks like a small time cop, the street has trees, the sun shines etc.

We’re inching closer and closer to New Cap City…..

this is gonna cause an epidemic of neurological disorders oof

Something about this video reminded me of Eddy Burback's "review" of the Apple Vision Pro, which was less of a review and more of a dive into how it was making him disconnect from the outside world. He was disengaged from his interactions with friends, losing his connection to nature, interacting with AI "people" who basically spouted everything he wanted to hear, and when he stopped wearing the headset, he would expect things from the AR/VR world (browser windows, videos, apps, etc) to show up in the real world, and was startled when they didn't. He was legitimately scared of what the Vision Pro was doing to him. I'm happy to see that the comment section of this video seems to share his sentiment