What I Learned from Spending a Week in Virtual Reality | Jak Wilmot | TEDxVienna

What I Learned from Spending a Week in Virtual Reality | Jak Wilmot | TEDxVienna




On February 20th, 2019 Jak Wilmot wore a VR headset for 168 hours. With the goal of researching how society will adopt this technology, the psychological …

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  1. What is r3al? How do you define real? If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

    -Morpheus

  2. Ok. This is the second 1 week VR 1 week video I’ve watched. And this is the first Ted talk I’ve despised. I’m a programmer, I’m also a VR gamer. I also love Snowden. So not for reasons of privacy and digital harvesting of my data, hence the Facebook account tether for login into the quest 2.

  3. I read a short story once in Analog about a person who had a VR of their grandfather's memories of Auschwitz. Just imagine how we could share experiences of other cultures or races, and how that might help us understand each other better, and be able to have grace towards one another.

  4. Strange. When I first saw this guy in a video where he was doing the things he just told. I was wow. Of course that was edited but still I believed. But now when he presented this, I realized that I was fooled. He didn't spend and experienced all this. This is just a perfectly written essay 🙁

  5. It's obvious that this Jak Wilmot guy has a lot of money if can just quit his day-job and walk around wearing a VR headset 24/7 while still having clothes on his back, food in his belly, and a roof over his head.

  6. I think we are going to get similar stuff to transitioning from flatscreen to vr when we are going to transition from VR to neural interfaces, whete not the sensors get tricked, but the brain gets tricked to thinking it's real.

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