Can Virtual Reality Change Your Mind? | Thong Nguyen | TEDxMinneapolis

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2. Vr and dmt sessions anyone? Cross some dimensions?? Woop! Quantum vr baby, bring a big piece of quartz, ,,, the first rule of vr dmt club is (zones out)

3. I was at a bar in Tokyo the other day in VR.. and just sat there and imagined if I were there … I imagined the local club scene environment and tried to merge them with what I was viewing to get a better feel of what was happening inside this Tokyo club…. it was cool to see people do the same thing we do differently.

4. Yes !! VR can't only be for playing shooting/killing, horror and driving games. There is much more to it. It can help for meditation, subconscious reprogramming. That is why I'm getting a headset.

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6. Great presentation! Love his sense of humor

7. bravo!!

8. I want to get in contact with this guy. I want to start VR therapy programs.

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10. VR is going to be the most powerful tool to harness the law of attraction

11. Thanks to fitness games, it can't just change your mind.

12. Although the problems described by the presenter in humanity may be real, I am still unable to agree with his claim that embodied experience in VR is the best way of understanding. From a generation that grew up on books, TV, radio and cinema (and also slides ;)) , I am perfectly able to understand and empathize with things like aging without being subject to an aging simulation in VR. Certain religions like Buddhism which deal with the mind also have texts that ask the seekers to meditate on things like aging, disease and human suffering to gain insight. Why do we need VR ? Further, (and I may be a Luddite here), I would like more research done on exposure to long term VR headsets on humanity. I had my first VR experience at the local mall where I had to walk a simple plank with a VR headset. I was unable to do it. This is really powerful technology but maybe it is just a solution looking for a problem in many cases. Further, and pardon my cheekiness, what is the difference between VR and cartooning at a conceptual level? Will VR be a category at the Oscars?

13. Hands down one of the most impressive, insightful and well-curated TED talks I’ve ever seen ?

14. let me tell you this. before using VR Technology, my thoughts were flat, at least what i thought visually. after using VR Technology I started thinking visually in 3D as if i was wearing a headset, normally happening when i close my eyes. I also believe the level of immersion can help me and people in understanding cognitively the difference between reality and virtual reality, at least people who regularly use the internet and flat games. its a very revealing experience. but i do worry the direction VR Technology is going. If children grow up with it, then its possible that when they develop mental health problems that the experience of VR might not be enough to help them.

15. Can one somewhere get virtual Ted stage and try being on Ted?

16. VR is a science fiction theme

17. are we on the path to trans human

18. cant wait tile we have a interface like in the matrix .

19. instead of putting people in real prisons , we should go vr . and rehabilitate them

20. It can remove our fear of height

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