{"id":27313,"date":"2016-06-28T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T22:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=27313"},"modified":"2017-04-29T15:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T22:48:48","slug":"how-vr-gaming-will-wake-us-up-to-our-fake-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/how-vr-gaming-will-wake-us-up-to-our-fake-worlds","title":{"rendered":"How VR Gaming will Wake Us Up to our Fake Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Human civilization has always been a virtual reality. At the onset of culture, which was propagated through the proto-media of cave painting, the talking drum, music, fetish art making, oral tradition and the like, Homo sapiens began a march into cultural virtual realities, a march that would span the entirety of the human enterprise. We don\u2019t often think of cultures as virtual realities, but there is no more apt descriptor for our widely diverse sociological organizations and interpretations than the metaphor of the \u201cvirtual reality.\u201d Indeed, the virtual reality metaphor encompasses the complete human project.<\/p>\n

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Virtual Reality researchers, Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson, write in their book Infinite Reality; \u201c[Cave art] is likely the first animation technology\u201d, where it provided an early means of what they refer to as \u201cvirtual travel\u201d. You are in the cave, but the media in that cave, the dynamic-drawn, fire-illuminated art, represents the plains and animals outside\u2014a completely different environment, one facing entirely the opposite direction, beyond the mouth of the cave. When surrounded by cave art, alive with movement from flickering torches, you are at once inside the cave itself whilst the media experience surrounding you encourages you to indulge in fantasy, and to mentally simulate an entirely different environment. Blascovich and Bailenson suggest that in terms of the evolution of media technology, this was the very first immersive VR. Both the room and helmet-sized VRs used in the present day are but a sophistication of this original form of media VR tech.<\/p>\n

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Human civilization has always been a virtual reality. At the onset of culture, which was propagated through the proto-media of cave painting, the talking drum, music, fetish art making, oral tradition and the like, Homo sapiens began a march into cultural virtual realities, a march that would span the entirety of the human enterprise. We [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1636,1498,39,1509,30,20,1923,386,418,27,225,1500,1879],"tags":[130,2357,1585,2360,2361],"class_list":["post-27313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-augmented-reality","category-economics","category-entertainment","category-ethics","category-futurism","category-holograms","category-homo-sapiens","category-internet","category-journalism","category-philosophy","category-posthumanism","category-virtual-reality","tag-culture","tag-oculus-rift","tag-society","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57086,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313\/revisions\/57086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}