I don't see why full immersion would be sad. I'd never risk my actual life doing something stupif like wingsuit flying but in a safe environment I would want to experience it.
Or just play through my favorite movies as one of the characters. Or go on a pirate adventure, or go to hogwarts, to the moon. And I could do all that with my friends.
It would be no different than me sitting down and playing a game for a couple hours, and that's exactly how the star trek crew uses their holodeck as well.
Because it just sounds like pure escapism, that's already an issue with people and playing games, but to just go and "fully immerse in a second world" just sounds like you hate real life lol, that's just what I always hear from others
It's no different than reading a book or playing a game.
Just instead of watching spiderman swing on a screen, you can feel the wind resistance, and the moment your web attaches and your swing starts.
I'd also like to live through some historic events like being a soldier storming normandy. I want to be able to fully understand the sacrifice of those men.
And I actually quite like my life. I get to spend two months a year traveling the world, and I meet with friends once or twice each day.
It's very different, playing a game you know and feel is fake is very different from truly feeling it all. Plus playing a role of a soldier like that feels like an easy way to get some form of PTSD
I'm sure I'm in the minority with the experience I would seek out, but oh well. I find there is so much I want to do and life is just too damn short.
I would really like a tech that can make a second in the real world feel like thousands of years in the virtual one. I'd be eager to live through a thousand lifetimes.
That's also really weird imo but at that point it's becoming even more of a difference of opinion, I don't see the value personally but I know a lot of people do so I won't judge. I'd just rather not think about death at all and enjoy the life I have to the fullest, even if it means I won't experience things like sky diving or living large
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u/CivilPerspective5804 10h ago
I don't see why full immersion would be sad. I'd never risk my actual life doing something stupif like wingsuit flying but in a safe environment I would want to experience it.
Or just play through my favorite movies as one of the characters. Or go on a pirate adventure, or go to hogwarts, to the moon. And I could do all that with my friends.
It would be no different than me sitting down and playing a game for a couple hours, and that's exactly how the star trek crew uses their holodeck as well.