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Much depends on the device you are using. I like Samsung Gear VR but you definitely see the pixels. In fact, watching Olympic volleyball on a Gear VR last week at the Samsung’s 837 store in NYC made me realize how much better a HD TV is. On the other hand, I was blown away by Wevr’s TheBlu:Whale Encounter at the Sundance Film Festival in the spring. It’s breathtakingly realistic, though very short since it’s using 4K video. And I recently did The Void’s Ghostbuster: Dimension at Times Square. That is probably about as realistic as it gets at the moment since you are wearing a haptic vest, which makes it more than a visual experience.A realistic VR experience requires state-of-the-art tech right now but Mobile VR will get better in the next few years. And I suspect that within five years we’ll be at the point where the virtual and the real are indistinguishable with advanced hardware.

There is a gap between the sale of VR Hardware and the proportionate amount of VR content consumed. For example, with Samsung VR gear, till now people have only on average consumed 2 hours content in lifetime per user.Reasons for lack of good content include the following:Requirement of highly sophisticated graphicsNon visual aspects like audio, haptics and trackingHigh requirement of time and effortUltimately it takes a lot of time, resources and effort to make VR realistic.There are very few experiences that bridge the gap between the virtual world and the real world. VR has to be combined with high quality, universally appealing content. So far Sports and movies are two possible types of content with universal appeal.Within sports, one of the most immersive experiences is iB Cricket.The product has been developed by ProYuga, a company working towards furthering mass adoption of advanced technologies all across the globe. iB Cricket is one of their products towards the cause.While most VR in the market is mostly a one time use, the eSport VR content like iB Cricket allows the players to enjoy the sport longer as they have access to the combination of gaming and sporting elements.

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//this is an opinion. probably an unpopular one.Uh… it is kinda possible to make it right now, except that “success” rate is low.Online MMO games can be this with a wrong kind of player. If you develop a game with grinding mechanics that can keep player’s inner hamster interested enough, on some occasion people may get engrossed into the game completely to the point where they might forget about reality for some time… typically few hours. Basically, provide streams of goals and rewards, and player may degenerate into an equivalent of a button-pressing rat, if the combination of factors is just “right” or shoudl I say… “wrong”.Also… I personally saw a person who was hospitalized into psychiatry ward because they decided that they’re a Lineage Cleric after playing Lineage for too long.To summarize it: you don’t need a VR helmet. You need a player with a problem and unstable mental state and a game with a mechanic that was purposedly designed to be as addictive as possible. Give them the right amount of “goal → reward” cycle, and they may enter state where their offline life is a mere addition to the online life.Reality is in your head, not in signals received by your senses. When a character interacts with you on a computer screen you see them as a person, and may emphataize with events they’re involved in… even though technically they don’t even exist and are not a person.—edit—And yes, as Vladislav Zorov correctly stated, this thing already happens with the books.A book provides text, however, with the right kind of mindset the information you receive through the brain into some kind of a simulation loop, where new information from the book is used to drive the simulation. I used to read huge amount of books in the past, and it was entirely possible to open a book during morning, and close it at evening, finishing it and without noticing how the time passes. The thing is… while you read, you see what happens in the book. The brain is powerful enough to create images, pictures, etc…. even though they are not strong enough to actually override your normal sensory input, they can be quite detailed.So, it is possible that rather than pursuing “better VR helmet” route, someone might just decide to figure out a way to throw the brain into self-hallucinating loop, providing fictional worlds for the user. And such tech will be probably quickly banned.

This is addressed by the "simulation argument",  made by the Oxford University philosopher and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute Nick Bostrom.It goes like this: It starts with the assumption that future civilizations will have enough computing power and programming skills to be able to create what he calls “ancestor simulations”. These would be detailed simulations of the simulators’ predecessors – detailed enough for the simulated minds to be conscious and have the same kinds of experiences we have. Think of an ancestor simulation as a very realistic virtual reality environment, but one where the brains inhabiting the world are themselves part of the simulation.The simulation argument makes no assumption about how long it will take to develop this capacity. Some futurologists think it will happen within the next 50 years. But even if it takes 10 million years, it makes no difference to the argument.  The conclusion is that at least one of the following three propositions must be true: Almost all civilizations at our level of development become extinct before becoming technologically mature. The fraction of technologically mature civilizations that are interested in creating ancestor simulations is almost zero. You are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.How do we signNow this conclusion? Suppose first that the first proposition is false. Then a signNow fraction of civilizations at our level of development eventually become technologically mature. Suppose, too, that the second proposition is false. Then a signNow fraction of these civilizations run ancestor simulations. Therefore, if both one and two are false, there will be simulated minds like ours.There is some math behind this which I'm not going to expound here. I'll link the original journal paper below for your reference.Page on simulation-argument.comIf we work out the numbers, we find that there would be vastly many more simulated minds than non-simulated minds. We assume that technologically mature civilisations would have access to enormous amounts of computing power. So enormous, in fact, that by devoting even a tiny fraction to ancestor simulations, they would be able to implement billions of simulations, each containing as many people as have ever existed. In other words, almost all minds like yours would be simulated. Therefore, by avery weak principle of indifference, you would have to assume that you are probably one of these simulated minds rather than one of the ones that are not simulated. Hence, if you think that propositions one and two are both false, you should accept the third. It is not coherent to reject all three. It should be emphasized that the simulation argument does not show that you are living in a simulation. The conclusion is simply that at least one of the three propositions is true. It does not tell us which one.In reality, we don’t have much specific information to tell us which of the three propositions might be true. In this situation, it might be reasonable to distribute our credence roughly evenly between them. Let us consider the options in a little more detail. Proposition one is straightforward. For example, maybe there is some technology that every advanced civilization eventually develops and which then destroys them. Let us hope this is not the case. Proposition two requires that there is a strong convergence among all advanced civilizations, such that almost none of them are interested in running ancestor simulations. One can imagine various reasons that may lead civilisations to make this choice. Yet for proposition two to be true, virtually all civilisations would have to refrain. If this were true, it would be an interesting constraint on the future evolution of intelligent life. The third possibility is philosophically the most intriguing. If it is correct, you are almost certainly living in a computer simulation that was created by some advanced civilisation. What Copernicus and Darwin and latter-day scientists have been discovering are the laws and workings of the simulated reality. These laws might or might not be identical to those operating at the more fundamental level of reality where the computer that is running our simulation exists (which, of course, may itself be a simulation). In a way, our place in the world would be even humbler than we thought.  We may be living in a Russian nesting doll type, simulation within simulation withing simulation.If we are in a simulation, could ever know for certain? If the simulators don’t want us to find out, we probably never will. But if they choose to reveal themselves, they could certainly do so. Another event that would let us conclude with a high degree of confidence that we are in a simulation is if we ever signNow a point when we are about to switch on our own ancestor simulations. That would be very strong evidence against the first two propositions, leaving us only with the third: You are almost certainly living within a computer simulation.Further reading:One of the predictions of the holographic theory (which was inspired by Hawking's work on black holes) is, the universe is a two-dimensional information structure "painted on" the cosmological horizon, the edge of space analogous to the event horizon of a black hole. It even provides a new conceptualization of entropy - as the surface of the universe expands, more information can be stored on its 2-D surface and the entropy of the universe increases as a result.Holographic UniverseAccording to the Holographic Principle, the universe should ultimately break down into fundamental "pixels" of reality, like the pixels in a photographic image, in this case grains of spacetime calculated to be Planck length.Some scientists, such as Craig Hogan of Fermilab, believe that this graininess, equivalent to quantum fuzziness, can be scaled up across the holographic universe and detected as very minute gravitational waves.Fermilab experiment will attempt to answer whether we actually live in "the Matrix"We can play with the bizarre possibility that we, and everything around us, are merely projections cast from some distant 2-dimensional screen, that we are ignorant of our true flatness as we live out our lives inside an enormous sphere at least 13.7 billions of light years across as projections from its inner surface.

Wake up in Ancestor SomulationFirstly, something about the world gave it away that the reality I see is simulated, some shortcoming and inconsistency in a physical law. I would assume that I was not supposed to realise this and that if the simulating ancestor (ref Bostrom’s Simulation Hypothesis) found out they would likely stop things, fix them, and restart.So I would need to make sure, and study the physical inconsistency without being noticed, going on in my normal life, maybe picking up a new hobby that is a good cover.I assume I would get some sense of the phenomena and maybe have some sense of the dynamics of the limit. Say it was a sharding anomaly whre large scale forest fires show some strange inconsistency at their edges.The next task would be to try to dedicate time to identify a way to find an exploit so I could gain control of the simulator. The best cover for this would be to become a sci-fi writer creating a conplex fantasy and then game designer and developer.I assume on this route I would encounter ofhers that havr noticed the same problem and have developed parallel fantasy spaces to convey their discoveries.I assume either we would be discovered and the world would end and simulation restarted with us erased or we would have enoigh time to come up with a plan.Part 1 - would be to create the basis so others could learn what we discovered and we should do thjs by creating a popular selling science fiction storyPart 2 - a specific action that might help get root on the simulation would be undertaken. Likely it would involve a high speed compute process at the shard boundary to create inconsistency and leverage this. The high speed compute across shard boundary might allow you to create a self replicating anomaly. The anomaly would be rhe tool you use to find out more about the simulator trying to make sure it is not discovered. Maybe we would find a way to root the simulator, maybe not.Sounds like a trip into insanity but I would feel very uncomfortable with being in an ancestor simulation without havjng been explained why…

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