{"id":29160,"date":"2016-08-19T21:17:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-first-church-of-the-singularity-rokos-basilik"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:55:33","slug":"the-first-church-of-the-singularity-rokos-basilik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-first-church-of-the-singularity-rokos-basilik","title":{"rendered":"The First Church of the Singularity: Roko\u2019s Basilik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-church-of-the-singularity-rokos-basilik.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 1st Church of Singularity \u2014 guess Ray is preaching again.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-church-of-the-singularity-rokos-basilik.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"313\"><b><center>Roko\u2019s Basilica (credit: First Church of the Singularity)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>By Jodi Schiller<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For those of us working in virtual and augmented reality, our days are spent thinking of better and better ways to create more lifelike virtual worlds. It\u2019s easy for us to believe that one day we will be living in a sim indecipherable from \u201cbase\u201d reality \u2014 or even more likely, that we\u2019re already living in one.<\/p>\n<p>This year at Burning Man, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/metaverse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metaverse Scholars Club<\/a>, a non-profit committed to building an ethical metaverse, is creating an immersive theater\/mixed reality experience reflecting these ideas.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/the-first-church-of-the-singularity-rokos-basilik\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/the-first-church-of-the-singularity-rokos-basilik<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1st Church of Singularity \u2014 guess Ray is preaching again. Roko\u2019s Basilica (credit: First Church of the Singularity) By Jodi Schiller For those of us working in virtual and augmented reality, our days are spent thinking of better and better ways to create more lifelike virtual worlds. It\u2019s easy for us to believe that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29160","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60708,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29160\/revisions\/60708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}