Perhaps there are some narrow and practical applications for this technology vis a vis disabilities or industrial control, but this reads like the engineering fever-dream of everyone wired up with VR headsets and bodysuits, consuming “immersive content” instead of living actual experiences.
Until we have an actual holodeck, virtual reality will be an impoverished shadow of actual life, and I really wish people would stop promoting the idea that it’s some kind of goal; to interact with and consume signals instead of experiencing life in your own skin.
Even a perfect holodeck is a weak stand-in. Without risk there is no texture to life.
Xss3•4mo ago
I'm content with letting others live however they please. I dont own vr but i wouldnt disparage anyone that does if they are happy and productive in some way. Not necessarily in a capitalism sense either. There are plenty of ways to provide value that dont involve money.
K0balt•4mo ago
Of course, if people choose to create their own private torment nexus, they should absolutely be free to do so. But let’s not pretend that justifies the mass manufacturing of torment nexus starter kits , to be sold as portable Eden’s.
Harmful things are harmful, and if sold to the unsuspecting public, should ideally be sold as such.
This is off topic, but one of the problems with “free market capitalism“ arguments is that “free market capitalism” is exactly what we have right now, with all of the attendant problems.
If you move up a level, you eventually get to the supernational level, in which there are no entities to enforce regulations and we have global calvinball.
The free market of ideas itself dictates increasing layers of regulation moving downward. Totally Free markets are only possible in an absolute vacuum of power. Every “free market” scenario implies an externalization of regulatory power and cost in order to preserve it.
Without that it is just who has the biggest stick, a “free market“ of coercive force.
atoav•4mo ago
A pretty niche application for these kind of shaker systems is monitoring for live musicians. As of now there are products for drummers and bass players that help them experience the bass response when they use in-ear minitoring systems, e.g. vibrating floor boards for bass players and shaking drum stools for drummers.
K0balt•4mo ago
Until we have an actual holodeck, virtual reality will be an impoverished shadow of actual life, and I really wish people would stop promoting the idea that it’s some kind of goal; to interact with and consume signals instead of experiencing life in your own skin.
Even a perfect holodeck is a weak stand-in. Without risk there is no texture to life.
Xss3•4mo ago
K0balt•4mo ago
Harmful things are harmful, and if sold to the unsuspecting public, should ideally be sold as such.
This is off topic, but one of the problems with “free market capitalism“ arguments is that “free market capitalism” is exactly what we have right now, with all of the attendant problems.
If you move up a level, you eventually get to the supernational level, in which there are no entities to enforce regulations and we have global calvinball.
The free market of ideas itself dictates increasing layers of regulation moving downward. Totally Free markets are only possible in an absolute vacuum of power. Every “free market” scenario implies an externalization of regulatory power and cost in order to preserve it.
Without that it is just who has the biggest stick, a “free market“ of coercive force.