Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20190906011835/@comment-31600610-20190906165141

@SeedSpeed:

I've experienced firsthand some of the incredible innovations that VR has to offer. I've engaged with computer systems and software so secretive, powerful and expensive that it will never be available to the public. (And not because of my own merit or achievements, but because I have a brother that is fortunate enough to be in a situation where he can share) But you're not seeing the forest for the trees...

There cannot and will not ever be a true symbiosis between man and machine. PERIOD.

I can make this argument because there is one thing that hardware and software can never do. Emote.

Sure, they could simulate it. However, in a nutshell, the most influential aspect of an experience is neither through the physical sensations nor the body's observations. It is the awareness that the experience is truly reality versus a reality that is simulated. That awareness generates emotion.

The only exception would be a "Matrix" type reality, one in which a person was conceived and and born into virtual reality. And, yes there is the infinitesimal potential for the possibility, but as humans, we would never allow such a thing to occur. (I hope...)