VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) AND "THE HOLODECK PROBLEM"

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1. A Very well researched and highly thought provoking video. Thank you.

2. This was very informative and well-made. I'm surprised you didn't talk about The Void when you talked about the Holodeck problem. It's exactly how you described the Holodeck. What The Void does is map a VR world over real life objects so you can interact with what you see. And I mean a good sized area with a bit of redirected walking that's unnoticeable. They also add cold or heat depending on the scenario and even smell while you wear a haptic vest and VR headset.

   I used to play flat screen games and no longer do because of home VR but now my playtime with home VR is a little less because I experienced The Void. With sense of touch in VR being made now like the new dexmo gloves we'll see an increase of people just wanting that escape in VR especially in VR porn. It isn't a bad thing but it could be if there's too much of it like if anyone does too much of anything there's some harm behind it.

3. VRChat club and one has full body tracking. Kids seems to like it, like it was a real club.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDWvawDGsUw
   Even now it is extremely immersive. Bigger the room you have it set up in, the more fun it is. It really is like being in the room with people.
   It is way better than social media, as it lights the brain up like real interactions, and thus prevents the atrafy and social anxiety that can effect those who spend too much time on social media without real world interactions. People in the real world can seem a bit like NPC after a long time in VR, as people wear masks in real like, but those are stripped away in VR.

4. theres something about vr i dont trust maybe its the frequency

5. we are already working on it. and may one day we can create these things for humanity

6. Shoehorning your garbage uninformed political opinion in a doc on an unrelated subject is just sloppy virtue signaling. Not to mention the history of VR devices you gave is also incorrect and uninformed. 1 /10

7. Decentraland is an interesting VR project on the ethereum blockchain. Eventually they aim for the platform to be owned and run by the people, with LAND owners creating content in the city with its own currency MANA.

8. Maybe evil will disappear when there's no scarcity ? Laughably naive.

9. the matrix has you

10. We will program perfect worlds and perfect lives, then we’ll get bored and go back to being human. That’s what the human simulation is. Pain is the point of this reality. Drink it in! It’s why we’re here.

11. @13:45 aren't we already the pod people from the matrix. We all function our daily lives with specific routines akin to prison life. Work release chain gangs and curfew after "work" is done. We stay with a certain perimeter called our cities and neighborhoods. We have chaperones(aurhority) to make sure we dont break the wealthy's laws.

12. Full dive VR is the only reason I have to live, I'll happily spend the rest of my life in a virtual world if I could

13. (no brain no soul)

14. Virtual immortality

15. Space exploration is the final frontier before we've covered millennia of generations in space the mind will be mapped and translated to digital entities( the dead)living programs in machine bodies

16. VR will consume your life…
    I have well over 10,000 hours…
    See you all in the metaverse

17. Excellent video on the benefits, potential and pitfalls of VR! As a VR enthusiast myself (Oculus Rift and PSVR owner), I've experienced the wonderful potential of VR but agree that it has its potential dangers as well (particularly your example of the "shut ins" where one can end up ignoring physical social interaction and just stay inside all the time). Personally, I try to balance my time in VR but it can be incredibly addicting to just escape into my VR and want to stay in there instead of going out, interacting with friends and family and taking care of physical needs (laundry, cleaning the house. etc).

18. they live

19. 11:42 laugh me ass out

20. 2:25 that Chris hermosworth aka thor

21. This video has a very pessimistic view on VR imo.
    And a lot of the negatives of VR you mention seem like non issues.
    For example you say that people will start living 100% of their lives in VR because it's so much better than the real world as if that is bad. But why is that a bad thing? You are literally upgrading your life.
    Also you mention that people will stop pursuing anything productive if their 3 basic needs are met. but personally, i get way more enjoyment out of finishing a project I've worked really hard on than I could ever get from enjoying my self all day while being useless.
    I think the VR of the future will be great.

22. Make a video of biology

23. I would say that live in the real world and contribute for the advancement of the human race is not for everyone, i would put everyone else inside the matrix so they could train to be worthy of living in the real world, or they could just live in the digital utopia if they so choose.

24. I am autistic. I got a VR system earlier this year and have truly found it a revelation. I think you have it back to front with the hyper nihilism thing? "You claim most people live meaningful lives"? You are already entirely divorced from reality. Civilization is driven by masses of people doing relatively mindless labor. The majority of people never get to contribute to civilization in meaningful ways and must content themselves with the meaning they can find in their social lives. They can not in truth because great strides result from the accumulation of all the small things we all do.

25. If you think scarcity is what causes evil you were taught by a MORON .

26. I'm thinking about how many days per week I will choose to abstain from VR for. Each person's need of VR will have to do with how unhappy they are with what's possible in their real-world-lives. People focused on impossible to reach states like past lives, far away places, or transpecies bodies, will have a harder time opting out of perfect holodeck-like VR than people who were already fairly well satisfied with their lives before it.

27. Water is good for human beings, yet if you abuse it it will be bad you. It will be the same with this technology, it will be good if used with moderation and bad with excess.

28. Great video.
    Balanced, objective, approach.
    Well done.

29. Evolution will solve the holodeck problem. The truly scary thing is that we don't know how evolution will solve the holodeck problem.

30. What is real anyway? Do we need biological bodies? What is meaning, and who defines it? What does really matter, and to whom?

31. reptilian overlord Zukenberg :DD

32. VR is awesome!!!

33. I remember being a teenager and being hooked on Ultima Online and Sega Genesis….. I have no idea how children growing up with this technology manage to unglue themselves from monitors and screens.

34. 11:40 – lol. : )

35. 4:30

36. This is already the holodeck, we call it reality; Plato’s cave shadows on the wall.

37. This was a great video. 2020 is going to be a big year for VR!

38. Omg this video is so insightful omg! I didn’t know so many of the pros and cons of VR. I will be very disappointed if the algorithm doesn’t promote this video. I remember the Oculus Kickstarter and I have a PSVR.
    I think VR will be just like a 3D television that you can walk in, and we will treat it like a TV in our house and use it a few hours a day. I think we will all own glasses that project on the world with anything useful. I think the big deal coming is transferring information, feelings and emotions with directly into our brain. Maybe we drink minirobots that pass through our bloodstream and connect to our brain tissue and interface with our glasses and we can manipulate the world like that. Or maybe we don’t even inject anything we come up with new technology to read and write brainwaves. I think our VR glasses will help us find love easier with other real people, like Tinder has.

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