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Wake up, buddy. You okay?” “Auntie Em! Auntie Em!” Homer’s VR came online, smiling. “I guess we got’em.” I snorted with relief. “And their little dog, too.” Homer steepled his fingers in a properly evil mastermindish pose. “All their base are belong to us.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it?

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.

Virtual reality (VR) is a fake world that feels absolutely authentic.

A recluse. A pale-skinned pop culture–obsessed geek. An agoraphobic shut-in, with no real friends, family, or genuine human contact. I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame. But not in the OASIS. In there, I was the great Parzival. World-famous gunter and international celebrity. People asked for my autograph. I had a fan club. Several, actually. I was recognized everywhere I went (but only when I wanted to be). I was paid to endorse products. People admired and looked up to me. I got invited to the most exclusive parties. I went to all the hippest clubs and never had to wait in line. I was a pop-culture icon, a VR rock star. And, in gunter circles, I was a legend. Nay, a god.

A profound impression was created by the discourses of Professor GN Chakravarti and Mrs Besant, who is said to have risen to unusual heights of eloquence, so exhilarating were the influences of the gathering. Besides those who represented our society and religions, especially Vivekananda, VR Gandhi, Dharmapala, captivated the public, who had only heard of Indian people through the malicious reports of interested missionaries, and were now astounded to see before them and hear men who represented the ideal of spirituality and human perfectibility as taught in their respective sacred writings.

Thomas didn't usually mind Thursdays but this had been the sort of day that would eat the last biscuit in the tin and put the lid back on.

He didn’t show any obvious signs of the Black Death but it would have suited him.

Searching for the best solution is by far the best excuse for inaction.

We’re all doing VR, every time we look at a screen. We have been for decades now. We just do it. We didn’t need the goggles, the gloves. It just happened.

VR experience is often better understood not as a media experience, but as an actual experience, with the attendant results for our behavior.

metal-bubble girls. We rock your world and do it quietly from behind our VR systems because we’re too scared to show up at venues.

This “out of sight, out of mind” externalization of poverty and poison doesn’t go away just because we’ve covered our eyes with VR goggles and immersed ourselves in an alternate reality.

TJ frowns; she can’t write about willing wind and water in the official report. Voicing elements is a rumor. However, she remembers what her grandmother said five decades ago when she was a child; (it was shortly after the war): “Anyone who trains hard can be a Grade A by the time they’re forty or fifty. But it takes decades more to become strong enough to voice one element.” “One element?” TJ asked. “Do you want to voice the entire universe then?” “Can’t I?” Grandmother didn’t answer, not directly anyway, as most great masters do. They never say you can’t do this or no one can do that or that thing is impossible just because they couldn’t do it, or because they hadn’t found it yet. True masters answer differently. Wisely. Like her grandmother answered that day. “Do you know why we evolve, Tirity?” “Because we’re supposed to?” TJ replied. “Yes. It’s in the grand design. We’re ‘supposed to’ evolve. Not just in body, but also in mind,” she said. “In time. You see, time is the key. If given infinite time, you can evolve your mind infinitely. But we live only for a hundred years or so.” “A hundred years is ‘only’?” “You’re so young, Tirity! But yes, it is little for a complete cognitive evolution. Most hard trainers can prolong it to a couple of hundred years. They even get to call the wind or grow a giant plant that could touch the clouds. But voicing everything in the universe? I think only God can do it, the God who created everything with only words. And if God created the world so that he could see how far the humans can evolve, then I’d say, yes, even a human could get godly power. Godlier than voicing one or two elements. If. Given. The. Time.” “How much time?” “More than thousands of years, maybe. Could even need millions, who knows? …” TJ smiles drily; she remembers how her eyes sparkled at the thought of becoming a goddess who could voice everything. She dreamed of flying in the air or walking in space. She thought of making her own garden full of giant flowers where only enormous butterflies would dance. Some days, when she played video games in VR, she even dreamed of voicing the thunder and lightning to join her wooden sword. She thought time could help her do it. But she didn’t know then, time only makes you grow up. Time steals your dreams. Time only turns you into an adult.

Survival tip for immortals of all sorts:  Librarians are the secret masters of the universe.  Whether they be dusty archivists or VR data-gurus, they have access to lots of information.  Stay on their good side.

Imagine that a scientist creates a human clone in a lab based on the genes of a real man called Raghu. It looks exactly like Raghu. Through virtual reality (VR), its mind is fed with experiences and memories of Raghu so that now it believes that it is Raghu. Now both of them -Raghu and the clone - behave exactly the same way. They cry on same things, laugh on same things. How would you find out which one of them has a soul?

There seemed to be so many implications even to thinking about sitting up and standing up and exiting V.R.5 and taking a certain variable-according-to-stride-length number of steps to the stairwell door, on and on, that just the thought of getting up made me glad I was lying on the floor.

Peabody wandered off, scanning the entertainment units lining the wall, wondering what it would be like to be able to afford any amusement available: music, art, video, holograms, VR, meditation chambers, games. Play a set of tennis with the latest Wimbeldon champ, dance with a hologram of Fred Astaire,

Virtuality is the cultural perception that material objects are interpenetrated by information patterns. The definition plays off the duality at the heart of the condition of virtuality—materiality on the one hand, information on the other. Normally virtuality is associated with computer simulations that put the body into a feedback loop with a computer-generated image. For example, in virtual Ping-Pong, one swings a paddle wired into a computer, which calculates from the paddle’s momentum and position where the ball would go. Instead of hitting a real ball, the player makes the appropriate motions with the paddle and watches the image of the ball on a computer monitor. Thus the game takes place partly in real life (RL) and partly in virtual reality (VR). Virtual reality technologies are fascinating because they make visually immediate the perception that a world of information exists parallel to the “real” world, the former intersecting the latter at many points and in many ways. Hence the definition’s strategic quality, strategic because it seeks to connect virtual technologies with the sense, pervasive in the late twentieth century, that all material objects are interpenetrated by flows of information, from DNA code to the global reach of the World Wide Web.

According to Business Insider, VR headsets alone will grow from a $37 million dollar industry in 2015 to $2.8 billion in 2020—growing by a factor of 75. Goldman Sachs predicts revenue from all categories of VR including software will reach $110 billion by 2020, making the category bigger than the TV industry in its first five years. We

Unless we keep the dollars we receive as salary under the pillow, we undertake some form of investing.

Living on our planet requires a lot of imagination. Reading fosters it.

Without realising how far he had walked or how quickly he had walked it, there stood the imposing edifice of Emmanuel, rising like an iceberg - the frozen water variety not the vegetable - from the bustling metropolitan sea.

Probably, it was when I noticed the guy standing next to me at VR sharpshooters. He was about thirteen, I guess, but his clothes were weird. I thought he was some Elvis impersonator’s son. He wore bell-bottom jeans and a red T-shirt with black piping, and his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl’s on homecoming night. We played a game of sharpshooters together and he said, “Groovy, man. Been here two weeks, and the games keep getting better and better.” Groovy? Later, while we were talking, I said something was “sick,” and he looked at me kind of startled, as if he’d never heard the word used that way before.

VR addictions take it to a new level. People are found dead everyday in their beds or couches, with their VR helmets still on, their games still running. They die of starvation, thirst, heart attacks. It's a big problem, and zombies—people with severe addictions—are as common as alcoholics or drug addicts these days. Many of them can't function in the real world anymore. They don't go to school or work or go outside. They couldn't even if they wanted to. The way Hakeem's mom explained it to us—in an effort to scare us from ever letting ourselves go that route, I guess—people with severe VR addictions have flipped the real and virtual worlds in their minds. To them, reality is the simulation, and VR is reality.

YEARLY OATH AGAINST CORRUPTION “I ________________ do swear in my name, in the name of my spouse ________ and my children _______, … and _______ or my parents _______, ________ or Mother India that I will not take bribes in any form, cash or kind, while holding the office of the ________ and I will not knowingly allow anyone under my charge to take bribes in any form, cash or kind.

A door to a long-awaited game-world has opened for those who found its key. This includes Dan Harvester, a guy who lives in a run-down apartment with his cat and runs a gaming channel. He's almost through playing and testing VR games, but is this his one last chance to - really - level-up? What can it promise to him, and its first 'Beta-pioneers'? 'Fountellion' is a nature-world full of artificial life that mimics the laws of 'the Source', our own nature with its force of evolution. It promises to be more than a 'survival experience', for there are six 'Insights' scattered and every player can find their own path to them. How much will Dan be changed? There is only one way to find out: experience and tune in to his 'avalogs'. For only by completing them together with fragments from its development, can you too discover the vision and legacy of 'Fountellion'.

With exponential development of AI-powered multisensory immersive technologies, within 10-15 years most of us could immerse in 'real virtualities' akin to lifestyles of today's billionaires. Give it another couple of decades, each of us might opt to create and run their own virtual universe with [simulated] physics indistinguishable from the physics of our world. Or you can always 'fine-tune' the rule set, or tweak historical scenarios at will.

It is technically without fault," David observed. But it lacks heart.

A bunch of VR nerds want to hang out after curfew and they can’t just use WAVEchat? Come on, people. It’s not 2020.

I'm proud to be part of a team that cares deeply about victims of human trafficking. Through technology like VR Eval and thanks to the generosity of donors and valued supporters, we believe we can help save lives. That is a good feeling. (Carlos Wallace speaking as a Board Member of More Too Life)

They’re forming mutual-interest groups for all kinds of things.” “Like Starfleet, and the Borg.” “Mm-hmm. And the Skippies—” “Skippies? Skippies?” I could feel my eyes bugging out, even in VR. “What, they’ve changed their avatars to beer cans and started calling people monkeys?” Bill snorted his coffee and had to take a moment to compose himself. “No,

Старушки и старики сделали то, о чем мечтал каждый из нас, – укрылись в своеобразной «слепой зоне». Их не касалось ничего, кроме эсэмэски о поступлении пенсии. Их жизнь похожа на ту, какой изображают ее у геймеров в фильмах. Они тоже целый день сидят дома, едят, болтают по телефону, только вместо VR-очков у старушек телевизор. У моей соседки он включен на полную мощность дважды в сутки: утром и вечером. Всегда, каждый день. Утром – прогноз погоды, вечером – новости. Я слушаю их принудительно. И вместе с тем получаю сообщение, что с соседкой все в порядке.

Skippies? Skippies?” I could feel my eyes bugging out, even in VR. “What, they’ve changed their avatars to beer cans and started calling people monkeys?

What is “virtual reality”? It’s where people HIDE from real reality. What is the spectacular society? It’s where people watch other people having the spectacular life of which they dream. Why don’t they try to make it happen FOR REAL? There’s no high higher than REAL highs. There’s nothing better than being a real hero, not a fantasy hero. Ironically, all the spectacular people are a crashing disappointment in real life. They don’t have their scriptwriters with them to give then something clever and witty to say. They don’t have their make-up artists with them or the airbrushers or digital image enhancers that make them look so good on screen.

We are not migrating to VR and AR merely because they are a fun, new technology, but because humans have binocular vision with depth perception, and these are the only interfaces that match our biology. They will increasingly become more useful, enabling us to perform more efficient and more effective interactions in the world, driven by the biology of the human brain and nervous system.

VR is programmable imagination.

Volunteer Reserve (VR) pilots had also been weekend flyers before the war, but of an inferior social rank.

There was class distinction in the RAF, as there was and still is in British society as a whole. It was said, for example, that a regular officer was an officer trying to be a gentleman, an auxiliary was a gentleman trying to be an officer and a VR was neither trying to be both.

Tolerance is a key feature of addiction, but can occur without developing all the brain changes seen in full-blown addiction. Substance addicts attempt to overcome CREB’s effects by taking larger doses. Gambling addicts might place larger bets. Today’s internet porn users may find they need more videos, or VR porn, or cam-2-cam, or perhaps acting out a fetish to get the buzz their brain is desperately seeking. More often than not they try to overcome tolerance with new genres, usually more extreme, or even disturbing.

average electric field in a spherical control volume | 119 R θ x′ x Figure 5.9 Geometry used to evaluate the surface integral in (5.41). and hence ¿ SR dS |x − x | = żπ 0 (2πRsinθ)(cos θ x/ x )(R dθ) (Rcos θ − |x |)2 + (Rsinθ)2 = 2πR2 x |x | ż 1 −1 χ dχ R2 + |x | 2 − 2R|x |χ , (5.42) where χ = cos θ. The integral on the second line of (5.42) may now be evaluated using the indefinite integral ż χ dχ √a − bχ = 2 b2 a − bχ 3 − a a − bχ, and after a little work we obtain ¿ SR dS |x − x | = ⎧ ⎨ ⎩ 4π 3 x, x < R, (5.43a) 4π 3 R3 |x| 3 x, x > R. (5.43b) Thus our integral of E over VR becomes ż VR E(x)dx = VR 4πε0 ż |x|>R ρe(x) (−x) |x | 3 dx − 1 3ε0 ż VR x ρe(x )dx, (5.44) or equivalently ż VR E(x)dx = VREqout(0) − pqin 3ε0. (5.45) We have arrived back at (5.39), albeit after a great deal of integration. Although this particular derivation of (5.39) is rather long-winded, some ofthe results we have deduced on route, such as (5.43a, b), will prove useful when it comesto our discussion of magnetostatics.

And the number of virtual explorers continues to mount. In 2017, according to an eMarketer study, there were 22 million monthly users, which increased to 35 million by 2018. By the middle twenties, estimates put the VR market around $35 billion or so, and it’ll be hard to find a field not touched.

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This is the power of VR... to make sense of life. To provide a space where you can share your experiences for the better.

Susan smiled. “You didn’t have to wait until you were being chased by VR terrorists to come visit me, you know.

Paralyzed Reality (The Sonnet) Newspaper to smartphone, rabbit r1 to apple vision pro, social disconnection only changes face, nothing more. Nobody is busy enough to need VR while walking. People are meant to own tech, Yet the opposite is happening. Every tech has its place and purpose, How many reminders are enough reminder! First you buried your head in your phone, Now you walk around as donkeys with blinker. Companies are not to blame, Real culprit is consumer idiocy. In a world of unawareness, VR and AR make paralyzed reality.

Companies are not to blame, Real culprit is consumer idiocy. In a world of unawareness, VR and AR make paralyzed reality.

In a world of unawareness, VR and AR make paralyzed reality.

VO: A UN regional court has ruled that there is nothing inherently illegal in a piece of gear that follows a user into virtual simulations and does harm to that user’s simuloid unless it violates the laws pertaining to that node. Amanda Hoek, a seventeen-year-old South African schoolgirl, has been pursued online by a piece of code created by an ex-boyfriend and, in the words of her lawyer, “systematically stalked and assaulted numerous times.” (visual: Jens Verwoerd, Hoek’s attorney) VERWOERD: “This poor girl cannot use the net— vital to her schoolwork and her social life— without her online character being followed into every node by the defendant’s avatar, a piece of code designed specifically to harass her. She has been insulted, attacked, and sexually assaulted numerous times, both verbally and through the tactors of the VR nodes, and yet this court seems to think this is nothing more than the horseplay of adolescents on the net. . . .

Augmented Reality (AR) is different from Virtual Reality (VR) in that users typically interact with real-world objects and environments while wearing AR headsets or AR-enabled glasses. With VR, users don’t see real-world objects and environments instead of interacting with a virtual environment presented on a screen.

Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that creates the illusion of real-life conditions. It does this using computer games, movies, and other programs where fluid images are displayed on a video screen or headset. A virtual reality video game or movie can provide fully immersive experiences for users with full interactivity and 360-degree views. Virtual Reality headsets are used to create the illusion of a virtual environment by using a computer known as an HMD (head-mounted display) that connects to a computer and/or gaming console.

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You don't really think about it until you see something burn out there. You light a match in zero grav, the flame will be perfectly round. Like the way Terra looks in the old 'casts. And just like Terra, the flame won't flicker orange or yellow or even white out there in the black. It'll burn blue as a VR sky. Blue as a pretty girl's eyes.

The journey back to civilisation was often a whole lot faster and just as dramatic. On an MI-17 helicopter no less! Sitting atop and around military cargo. The best way to describe the Tawang sojourn was to compare it to a VR game, where one went from 'Jack and the Beanstalk' to the land of Black Hawk Down, all within nine weeks

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Cos’è, esattamente, il metaverso? Può essere definito come una nuova realtà digitale che combina elementi di AR, VR, realtà mista, social networking, gioco online, shopping e lavoro. Alcuni potrebbero etichettarlo come realtà estesa (XR), ma è difficile affibbiare una label comunemente accettata al concetto perché – chiariamolo il prima possibile – il metaverso non esiste. Almeno, non ancora.

Il metaverso non è solo VR e AR, ma anche mixed reality. In pochi anni, potremmo essere in grado di unirci ai nostri amici a un concerto sotto forma olografica e goderci l’esperienza seduti sul nostro divano mentre i nostri compagni sono fisicamente all'evento.

She wore not just the usual noninvasive modern interface-contacts, skin conductivity and brain activity sensors, the invisibly fine wires that lay along the skin and detected nerve impulses and muscle micro-movements-but a full immersion suit.

Her mother pulled the collar of the VR suit open so she could ruffle the fur of the violet-and-teal striped skinpet nestled up to the warmth of her throat. It bumped in response, probably vibrating with a comforting purr. Ferron tried not to judge, but the idea of parasitic pets no matter how fluffy and colorful, made her skin crawl.

At the far end of the ice cave, four seventh-century Norse dwarves delved a staircase out of stone, leading endlessly down. Heat rolled up from the depths. The virtual workmanship was astounding. Ferron and Indrapramit moved past, hiding their admiring glances. Just as much skill went into creating AR beauty as if it were stone.

SHE’S ALWAYS BEEN A GAMER, BUT SINCE FATHER DIED…IT’S AN ADDICTION. SHE ARCHIVES EVERYTHING. AND HAS SINCE I WAS A CHILD. WE’RE TALKING TERABYTES. PETABYTES. YOTTABYTES. I DON’T KNOW. AND SHE’S AFTER ME TO “BORROW” THE MONEY.

In recent years, the integration of virtual reality (VR) technology into classrooms has sparked a wave of excitement and innovation in the field of education. As educators seek new ways to engage students and enhance learning outcomes, VR presents a promising frontier ripe with potential.

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So keep your eyes wide open when you're in VR. A door might appear in the fabric of your world, one that doesn't fit. Open if you dare. If it's the Game, you'll know it by the snow.

It is very often, that after a great deal of effort expended in our investigative endeavours, we find no plausibility or connection at all. That is a perfectly acceptable outcome in our line of work.

My home has always been my sanctuary, but with you in it, it's my heaven.

The advent of digital reality eliminates the constraints imposed by geographical boundaries on business, educational institutions, and workplaces, transforming these limitations into immersive geographical experiences

Dreams Are The Wishes of Life

What is impossible today can become possible tomorrow only if we do what is possible today.

Every Race Is In The Race To Win The Race

If the majority cannot be punished then they can only be transformed; and the transformation requires change of heart.

Though It Is Enough As Much YouwHurt Me But I Still Care About You

Pride is not a quality wholly to be lamented, but pride, when not kept in careful check, too often makes us our own worst enemy.

VR and AR will eventually converge, and smart glasses will take over our digital interactions.

Auntie Em! Auntie Em!” Homer’s VR came online, smiling. “I guess we got’em.” I snorted with relief. “And their little dog, too.” Homer

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los seres humanos estamos programados, desde la infancia, para juzgar, temer y desconfiar.

Virtual reality is finally, well, reality—and it’s getting a lot of buzz, thanks to platforms like the Oculus, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear and the Microsoft HoloLens. But a lot of the talk about VR focuses on video games. While exciting, we believe this technology is capable of doing a lot more, including applications that literally save lives.

We make such gods and monsters of men, do we not?

At times we'll want to escape our polluted reality... not augment it with digital Debris

ser feliz por una sencilla razón: la felicidad está estrechamente ligada a la realización de los sueños.

But love is not selfish longing, Archer. It is not desire, and it is certainly not possession. It is the overwhelming concern for another’s happiness beyond one’s own.

He can’t change the decisions he made in the past any more than you or I could ours.

Love comes with a risk. We all know that. We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow…hell, we don’t even know what’s going to happen the next second. So we just love the person we love by the second and pray to God that we get another one with them.

If rumor really has it, and that rumor fails cease, then it was never a rumor.

best solutions will not fall into our lap if we fail to grab the best available solutions and improve upon them continuously.

If millions of voters are jointly responsible to ensure stability of the Government, then the system is inherently faulty.

If we are following the same colonial systems and procedures in Free India, are we not actually idealizing the colonial rule?

La cantidad de rumores inútiles que un hombre puede soportar es inversamente proporcional a su inteligencia”. Arthur Schopenhauer

Leer es amueblar tu propio departamento interior”. Jostein Gaarder

Virtual reality: Since 1991, Sega had been quietly developing a sci-fi-like set of virtual-reality goggles in order to provide the most immersive gaming experience imaginable. Nicknamed the Sega VR, this futuristic visor consisted of dual LCD screens, which merged together three separate 3-D technologies, and a series of tiny inertial sensors that tracked movements of the user’s head. Completion of this project and proper safety testing were still more than a year away. 5.

Para Mandela, la venganza te rebaja al mismo nivel que tu enemigo, mientras que el perdón te hace superior. Él fue capaz de demostrarlo, y gracias a esa convicción su país, Sudáfrica, a punto de estallar en una guerra civil, logró eliminar el oprobioso apartheid de la manera menos traumática posible.

It’s not the good we see in the people we love, but what we refuse to see that gives us strength.” “What the hell is that supposed to mean?” “Sometimes when we care about someone, we deny what’s right in front of us so we can move forward, so we have a reason to continue to love.

I assure you, Miss Durham, there is always recourse. Consequence is a faithful companion in all deeds, whether good or bad, and it can teach us like nothing can to change our ways when we have done wrong. Besides, if there is no repentance, then what was the point of God’s great sacrifice?” “I do not know,” she answered

I can’t know if she lied about Sohtyr or not. Maybe she did trick us, I don’t know. But what I do know is that I have to go after her.” “Damn,” Leth said. “It must be so confusing to be you.”  

Good news,” Leth said. “They can die.” With the help of a foot, he pulled his sword from the statue’s chest, and just as he did, the creature climbed back onto its feet. “No, spoke too soon!” He

I dismissed my VR and frame-jacked up to maximum. At this level, I could sense jitter in my perceptions as my hardware attempted to pixelate reality.

I was immediately obsessed with the potential for multiple people to share such a place, and to achieve a new type of consensus reality, and it seemed to me that a “social version” of the virtual world would have to be called virtual reality. This in turn required that people would have bodies in VR so that they could see each other, and so on, but all that would have to wait for computers to get better. I was fifteen years old and vibrating with excitement. I had to tell someone, anyone. I would find myself running out the library door so that I didn’t have to keep quiet; rushing up to strangers on the sidewalk out in the hard New Mexico sunshine. “You have to look at this! We’ll be able to put each other in dreams using computers! Anything you can imagine! It’s not just going to be in our heads anymore!” I’d then wave a picture of a cube in front of a random, poor soul, and that person would politely navigate around me. Why were people so blind to the most amazing thing happening in the world?

I was immediately obsessed with the potential for multiple people to share such a place, and to achieve a new type of consensus reality, and it seemed to me that a “social version” of the virtual world would have to be called virtual reality. This in turn required that people would have bodies in VR so that they could see each other, and so on, but all that would have to wait for computers to get better. I was fifteen years old and vibrating with excitement. I had to tell someone, anyone. I would find myself running out the library door so that I didn’t have to keep quiet; rushing up to strangers on the sidewalk out in the hard New Mexico sunshine. “You have to look at this! We’ll be able to put each other in dreams using computers! Anything you can imagine! It’s not just going to be in our heads anymore!” I’d then wave a picture of a cube in front of a random, poor soul, and that person would politely navigate around me. Why were people so blind to the most amazing thing happening in the world?