{"id":83178,"date":"2018-09-30T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T05:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/virtual-and-augmented-reality-will-change-our-sense-of-a-shared-reality"},"modified":"2018-09-30T22:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T05:22:22","slug":"virtual-and-augmented-reality-will-change-our-sense-of-a-shared-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/virtual-and-augmented-reality-will-change-our-sense-of-a-shared-reality","title":{"rendered":"Virtual and augmented reality will change our sense of a shared reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the artificial brain races towards the singularity, what we often forget is the boost to human brainpower that will accompany it. As we increase our senses and perceptions, humans have a choice what to do with these new superpowers, that can be used to reinforce one\u2019s tunnel vision of life or to ignore it.<\/p>\n

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\nThis story is part of What Happens Next<\/a>, our complete guide to understanding the future. Read more predictions about the Future of Fact<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not everyone experiences the world in the same way. Whether it\u2019s how you react to the results of an election<\/a> or what tones you hear in a sound clip<\/a>, observable reality is often not as objective as you think it is.<\/p>\n

Emerging technologies such as augmented reality will further blur this line. With AR on mobile devices and head-mounted displays, we\u2019re well within the start of what it means to live an augmented life. Humans are doing a lot of fun things right now, like integrating playful games<\/a> into our world and painting ourselves with digitally applied effects and makeup<\/a>. We\u2019re also starting to find utility for AR in the workplace<\/a> and with hardware<\/a> designed specifically for the enterprise market.<\/p>\n

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As the artificial brain races towards the singularity, what we often forget is the boost to human brainpower that will accompany it. As we increase our senses and perceptions, humans have a choice what to do with these new superpowers, that can be used to reinforce one\u2019s tunnel vision of life or to ignore it. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83178","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\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}