Are you ready to make the leap?
Who amongst you will abandon this world for the digital realm?
Will we finally live in the matrix with our waifu?
>>319840220
it's the final solution to all our problems
>>319840095
Why is that blue spot only showing up in VR?
>>319840372
because even pleasure causes a little pain
>>319840220
no
jewish shenanigans will prevent this from happening
>>319840372
When the brain is introduced with a painful situation VR calms the brain down to distract it from pain.
When are these headsets finally coming out, I'm tired of 'VR headset open beta demo practice trial model v.291'
When's the first real big one that the moonlanders will make good VR waifus on coming out?
>>319840683
Q1 2016 for the Rift.
>>319840683
Whenever a developer makes that moonshot VR experience that'll lure everyone into it.
Until then corporations are creating the technology and having it wait on the sidelines until that magic moment happens.
>>319840683
Early 2016 with preorders 'later this year' for the Rift, H1 2016 for Playstation VR.
>>319840964
Playstation VR is trash.
>>319840940
Who's this cream construct?
I will make the leap when they get good games. Early adopters will be paying more money for a shittier experience.
>>319841039
It can't be worse than Facebook VR.
>>319841039
Cool story senpai.
>>319840470
>Distracting myself from the pain of reality
Seems about right
Oh boy, another /v/irgin philosophy and morality thread
>>319841475
This is why civilization will lure itself into virtual reality, simply because our current world is turning into shit. Not only is our resources dwindling but there's no sign of things improving beyond a few article headlines of "less starving kids in Africa than there was 40 years ago".
Our cities will become over crowded and over surveilled by governments, rights will be stripped away while robotic automation will take the majority of our jobs. Meaning will vanish and the only way to escape the world will be VR.
It seems almost inevitable that the Matrix will happen.
>>319841858
Fedora meme.
>>319841858
At least everyone will get a robot dick girl eventually.
I think that'll make up for a lot of the bullshit we'll have to put up with the future.
I wonder what sex is going to be like 100 years from now.
Probably something like Demolition Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOUBKbd-M9M
>>319842098
On this forum people criticize others for having a thought longer than a sentence.
>>319841858
>our current world is turning into shit.
Historically that's completely wrong. The world is better than it has been for a long time and is generally getting better.
>>319842405
No its for acting like you're seeing shit no one else does you pretentious dweeb. The world has always been shit, as you put it.
>>319842608
What you described is basically every person alive. Everyone thinks their viewpoint is the right perspective. Opinions.
>>319842856
Not necessarily, if you've never questioned your own opinion maybe this exemplifies your lack of self awareness that you're demonstrating in this thread.
>>319842309
And then we'll be in plain rooms with only a bed as we all merge in VR. It's sad thinking about it, but it's also sad seeing the current state of the world.
>>319842309
>mfw people don't know how to use the seashells
>>319842582
Depends entirely on what metrics you and that other guy are using.
Not everybody treats "progress" the same way, it too is a subjective thing.
Generally speaking I'd agree with you.
>>319842582
>Historically that's completely wrong. The world is better than it has been for a long time and is generally getting better.
Not everyone considers technology as making lives better. Have you seen the way people live nowadays in the first world? People aren't generally happier than they were a hundred years ago.
>>319843804
Childhood mortality is down, life spans are up, wars are smaller and less frequent, just because Timmy the Tumblrina can find something to complain about every day doesn't mean the world is worse off currently than it was in 1915.
>>319843804
>People aren't generally happier than they were a hundred years ago.
Source.
Why buy VR when our reality isn't even real in the first place?
>>319843979
>living longer means living happier and with purpose
Get a load of this normie.
>>319842582
I agree with you but you cant deny the milennials sucks major cock.
>>319840461
>muh jews
>>319845298
>World War 1 was better than having to deal with cishets on tumblr!
See two people can play the stupid greentext game.
>>319845451
Every generation has cocksuckers. And unless you were born before 1980 you're a milllenial. And if you were born before 1980 what the hell are you still doing on /v/?
>>319844974
Because our 'reality' sucks, and was designed to keep us pacified by 'them'.
>>319841039
People who tried it at PSX say it's pretty good. No need to be a PCMR turd about it
I will finally get to live out my dream of being a cute girl.
I heard Lindin Labs is making a new Second Life, will full Rift support and non-potato graphics. Could these be the gateway to a new plane of existence?
>>319845984
I just want the VR porn that syncs up with a fleshlight.
>>319846117
Now imagine wearing a haptic feedback silky smooth suit that allows you to feel and touch others in virtual space. Imagine where this could lead towards having intimate relationships over the internet.
>>319845608
>World War 1 was better than having to deal with cishets on tumblr!
World War 1 might have given people more purpose than doing humdrum daily activities and entertainment with their lives.
Wars do not make one great, but they certainly give perspective and build character.
Before WW2 wars were personal affairs. Now they are about whichever Superpower is bombing the shit out of some already shithole like area. Conventional warfare doesn't exist among powerful nations because of nuclear weapons.
It's just terrorism now, strategic siege, guerrilla warfare.
People need to find meaning or they will typically become insane or like hollow husks.
Not everybody finds that meaning. We need a generation of colonists for Mars that literally just leave everything behind on Earth.
How many of you would join? No specific expertise required, just basic desire to start a new life in an inhospitable place and nothing to lose.
Mayflower II
>>319846240
>muh haptic feedback
>not just developing a neural interface to simulate the feelings without needing bulky peripherals
>>319846264
You have a thought longer than a sentence, prepare for tips fedora memes to be thrown at you.
>>319843979
>Childhood mortality is down
Poverty-related childhood mortality is on the rise per HRSA, previous downward trends have been shown as reversible due to poverty (compare trends in China 1940 to 1960)
>wars are smaller and less frequent
This is not an economic or lifespan benefit due to the costs of maintaining an army and the number of service-related deaths and injuries that occur
>just because Timmy the Tumblrina can find something to complain about every day doesn't mean the world is worse off currently than it was in 1915.
Predicting collapse and working around it is the entire reason the social sciences are valuable. Nassim Taleb and Dennis Meadows already proved as much.
>>319846431
Like that phases me. I wouldn't still be here if it did.
>>319846389
Good luck waiting another 25 years for that to happen.
In less than a heartbeat. Fuck you meat substrate, I got waifus to hang with.
would we get bored having everything we could ever want in a simulated reality?
>>319846460
>wars are smaller and less frequent
>This is not an economic or lifespan benefit
Not being shot at daily or having your countries infrastructure destroyed isn't tied to lifespan or economics?
>>319846535
Good things take time. I'd rather have a homemade pie, crafted with love, than a shitty frozen pie that I bought at the store.
>>319846734
Nah, because when we get bored of it we can do something else. And we don't have the capacity to remember absolutely every general combination of factors we could create, so basically we'd end up in a giant loop jumping from pass-time to pass-time
>>319843804
>People aren't generally happier
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
>>319846734
I'm bored with having nothing I want, though. At least if I get bored with having everything, I'll still have everything.
>>319847228
You exist.
>>319847352
>>319847228
#rekt to be honest
>life was better when everyone had to work 14 hours a day and if you were a young able bodied man you were sent to die in wars by the millions
oh fuck off with this shit
>VR becomes commonplace and widespread
>mass addiction in the form of escapism
>VR "crack heads" become a thing
>some people sell everything they own to get the newest VR headset
>VR crack dens develop in slum neighborhoods
>lower middle class moves into small 'VR pods' that you lie down in all day
>people regularly forget to eat or fulfill basic life functions
>Death in VR becomes normal
>intravenous sustenance systems become a normal household appliance
>massive depopulation issue because of internet waifus and haptic feedback sex
>some of the few children being born are immediately forced into a VR head-space by extremist parents around the country
>child are being brought up in a fully VR environment, and have never seen the real world. They are shielded by their parents to prevent them from seeing how shitty the world has become
>advances in automation and medical technology cause entire populations to be completely sustainable in a complete VR environment
>eventually entire generations are born and die in VR
>new humans are grown from test tubes because actual sex is non-existent
>the real world eventually fades from human consciousness and is forgotten/lost over time. The truth has died.
>>319847872
Well the only opinion you could trust on the matter was somebody who was young 100 years ago and is also young now.
>>319847942
Good, fuck the real world. If you need me I'll be a busty futanari elf battling dragons in a wonderful fantasy game until I die.
>>319847942
>is forgotten/lost over time. The truth has died.
>inb4 it has already happen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKpFFD7aX3c&feature=youtu.be&t=135
>>319840809
I remember hearing that a new, upgraded consumer version of the Oculus is supposed to be coming out every two years starting 2016.
>>319847942
I want to read a book where somebody in a world where VR is basically mandatory explores the real world.
>>319847942
>mass addiction in the form of escapism
>implying is not happening before VR becomes mass spread
>>319847942
I'm fine with it.
I would still turn off VR occasionally to have like a real-life walk. Like a novelty kind of thing.
>>319847942
>intravenous sustenance systems become a normal household appliance
>eventually entire generations are born and die in VR
Your's story's all cool and errything, bro.
But the body won't allow such deep immersion, and I guarantee money invested to research a "solution" to this will never be spent.
IV nutrition requires a central port. That means you need IV access to a main vein, achieved only on an ER or by instruction of an internist. After a week on parenteral nutrition / IV nutrition, your gut will become lazy. You will be predisposed to gastrointestinal disease, and the severity of it will increase exponentially.
That, and pressure ulcers.
Nature and common sense will not allow it. Even if you go Cartman mode on WoW cocaine, you at least need to stand up from the chair and take time to eat.
Your best bet is mind uploading or brain cases. The former has the issue of You being You, not the uploaded mind; the latter, well, connecting and sustaining a brain in an artificial environment is not yet possible.
How about you drop your speculation until VR becomes a profitable market?
>>319850638
>>319850638
>achieved only on an ER or by instruction of an internist
That isn't difficult work, anybody could be trained to do it fairly quickly, just requires a little poking practice.
>>319847942
Goddamn I hope such a reality won't have a shit art style.
>>319850971
The jugular and superior cava are good ol' neighbors with main arteries. Fuck up and fail damage control and your patient's dead.
Also, IV nutrition is actually quite demanded in certain hospital settings, and even so it is still very expensive. You'll go broke no later than a week.
>>319848485
There's a book I remember reading a long time ago with a plot that's almost exactly that. It's called The Last Book in the Universe. Might be like middle school reading-level or something, but I remember it being pretty hardcore and really entertaining in a dark way.
read this fucking book
it's like the ultimate vr experience
ANON
THIS IS IMPORTANT
WILL THERE BE LOLIS?
>>319852856
All the time.
SFM porn on meth, now with haptic feedback so you can feel her virtual nipples.
