I DEEPLY feel you on the Harry Potter thing. I was just thinking about that — I feel like I grew with the Internet and Harry Potter at such synchronized times that they’re very intertwined for me. I vividly remember playing my Harry Potter CD-ROM and tracing the spell with my mouse and thinking, “Wow! Magic!”
There is definitely a post there. I’m interested to read more from you about this IRL chat room thing. I think i remember Facebook flopping at a similar concept? Thank you for the kind words!!
Yeah, Facebook made something - but it served as a massive lesson in the uncanny valley. There other VR chatrooms I've been in, but they feel odd. You can feel someone there, but not quite. It'll take time to make that less weird and more normal - I feel like social VR is still the pre-pre-MySpace stage, if that is a denoting term I can use, haha.
This one is semi-popular:
https://altvr.com/
I will say that talking to people in VR is better than saying online chatrooms, and playing VR videogames with other people - theres this game called Onward
Onwardhttp://www.downpourinteractive.com/#onward
and this is a much more - tense style of communication as your not talking about random stuff your frantically calling enemy locations and orders. It's intense, but fun.
aNYWAYS, whoops - anyways - the VR chatrooms (to me at least) are a early sign of what we should be seeing soon which is VR ecosystems being an extension of the internet - so optimistically speaking you'd be able to put on a VR headset and talk to your friend in Japan, while riding around on broomsticks. Optimistically.
There's so many variables - adoptions - computer power - investors - so we'll see - but I'm optimistic.
Also now that I'm on a roll it made me think of this -
it has nothing to do with VR but reminded me of the online chatroom stuff.
If you want to investigate VR I'd say go for it, but I have to warn you - it's a very interesting (and potentially disturbing) rabbit hole to fall down.
WOW okay so you really feel me. We are friends now. That video was incredible, never seen that — I have plans to start a similar series here on Steemit actually, which is what’s crazy. I want to keep an archive of times I see the web in films and TV shows. So that is awesome :)
I love the idea of VR, but it does scare me. I think I watched that movie Surrogate at a dreadfully formative age and have also always had a fear that we are all just little brains hooked up to a machine :p That’s to say, if they come out with a new Google Glasses x Warby Parker collab...
Haha, all those videos are golden to me - you can watch any single one of them and learn something.
I feel the same about VR, like all technology before it - it has awesome potential to create and destroy.
I've wondered about the brain a jar thing myself, but often think of the holographic universe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
thanks drugs.
We'll have to see - personally I'd want color changing eye contacts that can turn any room into an instant rave - but that's just me.