You get to plug in to any reality you want or someone wants for you and you get manipulated through these realities and you no longer live in actual reality but live in a virtual one fabricated for you and people like you and you get manipulated any which way the powers that be want you to be. Gamification will be rampant and will absorb people in to it. They will have little need for actual reality, be it relationships or much else.
At that point people become an illusion a strange simulation of themselves.
When I see how much mundane grinding people are willing to do for video game rewards, it makes me wonder if status or cosmetics in a virtual world will ever be used in place of real compensation for work. Maybe as a gig economy thing? That would effectively give the world controllers the ability to create currency. Virtual economics are already huge and people work in them for fun.
There is no need to confront all the blemishes and warts of actual reality when you can have a perfect universe customized to you pleasing all your psychological needs. Everyone can have their own reality they live in. You can live your life within VR. The more you live in VR, the less you need from actual reality. It's a perfect way to indoctrinate and manipulate people however you wish.
Anyone working on this should understand the consequences of their work down the road and get out and not contribute to this.
That already exists, unsurprisingly from Amazon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/21/mission...
Maybe it's a generational or cultural thing, but I find that kind of thing incredibly rude. But I'm also the kind of person who takes my sunglasses off when I'm talking face-to-face with other people.
The positives outweigh the negatives and it is sad to see the article only focuses on the downsides. Find me a technology that doesn't have a negative?
What? No they aren't... There's probably 10x more mobile phones than XR headsets... Did you mean invasive?
Also, I really love that thing I bought from Amazon that I don't need so don't knock it!
Smartphones, yes, but cell phones were pretty common in the 90s.
"Most of us don’t have a healthy relationship with technology, and AR as currently thought of, will just exacerbate that. It’s why I really like VR more than AR, because VR is a separate world that you consciously decide to be in for a time."
And yet the author fails to mention that a good chunk of the VR market is dominated by Facebook, one of the very companies doing the things he railed against. Already they force Facebook login with Oculus. So much for your imagined separation of virtual and real life.
Of course the more the technology improves the less true this becomes. But for now there's a meaningful difference.
You think you decide, but you are more impressionable than you think. Your emotions will be exploited in this new medium even more effectively than the rectangular screen, because you will feel embedded in whatever experience they pull you towards. Sure, it's cute gaming experiences now, just as Farmville was 11 years ago, but the nature of Facebook as a company (and the forced FB login means everything is 1:1 traceable with social network identity), means you and everyone else are going to be manipulated in these worlds. And they'll even be able to measure the effect on your social network activity.
There's a strong trend of assuming that "new thing" is going to be "existing problem but worse" without much justification - AR isn't exactly going to do anything which isn't already being done. People are already signed up to constant news alerts, and depending which service you pick, that projects a very specific and effective psychological profile.
Like, by far the most common desire I see from people wanting some heralded perfect AR system is the ability to just ad-block real life. Imagine a world where all billboards, bus adverts, bus stop adverts etc. are just being replaced by white squares - where you are not being driven to subtly filter that out every moment of every day. I mean, the whiplash I get now when I don't have uBlock Origin in a web browser is incredible - all that visual noise is genuinely stressful to deal with.
Even in the movies all they can come up with is ads.
Anything useful it might be able to do makes the task redundant.
It can tell you how to put together your IKEA furniture, then it could tell a robot what to do.
You can program robots to build furniture, but programming them to build furniture from a box in my house is not going to be worth the effort.
You'd need close to general AI, when we can do that we'll probably have general purpose robots in the home also.
If we use AR to see things that are already there, that will be one thing. But odds are that we will instead use it to see things that aren't there.
Poor quality article.
AR is merely a tool, how we as individuals chose to use it will define what impact is has on each of our lives.
No, we evolved to jump sharks. Just like that straying into purpose-driven evolution and just so stories did. Motivated reasoning.
He had me until then, though.
good of luck escaping out into a real metaverse, planet earth. few large participants on your planet will shoot for that greater good.
