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  1. This is amazing. I'm particularly interested in the use of virtual reality in situations where a head set is not needed. That is like the projection of the concert in which you can walk around. Do you need a headset to see or experience this?

  2. This man sounds so naive and nearsighted, it's painful. Basically, he's saying he wants VR to replace human imagination. And he only sees pros, totally unable to imagine cons or how this technology could be horrifically misused in the wrong hands; that's the first red flag.

  3. Kinda sexist dude, assuming women need their confidence built up…..how about the glass ceilings removed? Other than that, great video and fantastic ideas.

  4. "It's just a game, it doesn't make me a killer" Says many people in society and certain studies they point to.
    Yet the military uses 'games' and VR to train. And these studies in VR show a real effect.
    Someone has it wrong.

  5. It's "Augmented Reality," not "Augmented Virtual Reality." That makes no sense! You sound like a damn idiot when you say it wrong!

  6. if its true what he is saying, not only the good things would influence you. also bad things, like killing, torturing or propaganda, would lead your subconscious in a direction you dont want it to be. not sure about this

  7. I agree with using Virtual Reality to create empathy and for the good of our race.  But notice how I said our race, not my race.  The one thing in this video that annoyed me is the suggestion that we humans are of different races; we are not.  We are of different countries, different ethnicities, but not of a different race.  It's a small thing of language, but it needs to be sorted out, stop using the word race and start using the word ethnicity or country please.

  8. Now imagine virtual reality being as long as your life span, and you are learning here and now why you stepped into this virtual life-ality. When you offer your hand, you offer your mind. The body is an image within the virtual.  A light that goes on and off is imagined, therefor it is not non-imagined.  All separation is imagined along with on and off.  We all experience as one. Meaning, we are all one being having many virtual experiences.  The depth of virtual experience can near the infinite yet never reach it, which means it really gets nowhere close!  So the infinite is the wearer of the virtual.  You identify with the infinite and we identify all as one.  It already is as you thinking a virtual matter about you.  What is a real choice while experiencing the virtual?  Maybe that the virtual never exists, all that you imagine never did,  You imagined the virtual. We as I, imagined the virtual.  Let all schools of mind be one school of the universe.  I have learned a lot, and about nothing at all.  What I learned goes with me, as it goes with you, for we all go together.  Overestimate as much as you can of who we all are, you will see that you can not overestimate the one infinite.  The toys of virtuality comes from you like the tips of the wave of thought.  Ah the grand ocean of one and the eternal sky, one with the ocean.  Time and space, virtual toys we can let down. Stories of thought is a toy maker of the mind.  A true thought is one of remembering who you are.  All as one without expectation.  Without any obstacles to peace.  For perfect peace is where your joy shines.  They are one in you.  Stop for an instant and be the one with all that knows.  One being, one knowledge, one observer, one with all.  All separation is imagined.  The flowers of thoughts return to the soil of reality.  The true thought rests on the flowers that brought you here.  Give by letting go.  Nothing needs doing as you already are where you are.  The virtual is fading as the knowledge of the virtual is learned by the world, the universe, the all.  Find peace in our unity. Let it be onto you as the shadows fade away in your eternal light.

  9. I would have to agree that there are many positives to VR. Some of what he speaks on is sensational and somewhat propagandist.  Sure, who wouldn't want to go on a VR fad diet, or go to a concert virtually for cheaper (and safer) than actually being there. Yet, how much of this is hiding behind it a desire for population control?

    Sure, you should picture your life ahead of where you are in the now, but there are still applications in real time that also have to happen to provide scaffolding. It's one thing to thing about, and picture one's self with a job and able to save and invest It's another thing to actually get the job, and one that pays well enough to do such. You can think positively and project that positivism and still wind up poor and destitute without the plan and structure to make things happen. 

    Besides that, do people really want to be programmed into what others believe they should be, rather than having the free will and choice to make such discernment?

  10. I love my VR headset.  This talk covers the pros of positive behavior encouragement. But it brings forth the question, what about behavior manipulation for control?  Fear, obedience, submission?  Just a thought.

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