Bizarre as this might sound, considering the possibility that one day computer graphics will become so realistic you wont be able to tell them from the real thing and at some point someone is going to invent vr that'll let you experience something pumped directly into your brain
when all this happens and we've got past the stage of cheating on our girlfriends with our very own virtual natalie portman or keira knightly wooyah!
people will start to use this to experience things that they wouldnt be able to do normally, like learning to fly a plane, but at some point people will start experiencing things that they just cant physically do.. like dying.. like if you were falling from plane with no parachute what would be your last thought.. how would you react.. would you face down towards your destiny.. or would the fear take hold and you'd face up so you dont expect the moment of death
this would have some uses, imagine how much better a driver you could be if you could do things that would normally be dangerous to learn, once you've gotten good at the skilled stuff the mundane stuff would be easy, or you'd experience an action movie in first person leaping between train carriages, you'd be bound to get it wrong first time and wipeout on the top of a tunnel entrance but you could take your own experience much further than reality would allow
but how far would this go, would you get those who not only 'try' death but then go on dying in different ways, would there eventually become extreme stuntment/athletes those who not only do it but try to do it in their own unique way.. imagine if it eventually became a sport.. points awarded for style, technique, splatter.. i spose similar in a way to say crash mode on burnout
and would it strenghten your character, would you loose your fear or become a shivvering wreck
(im sure someone whos watched the matrix will instantly say that if you die in a game your body would die too, well maybe but we dont know for sure until it happens now do we)
when all this happens and we've got past the stage of cheating on our girlfriends with our very own virtual natalie portman or keira knightly wooyah!
people will start to use this to experience things that they wouldnt be able to do normally, like learning to fly a plane, but at some point people will start experiencing things that they just cant physically do.. like dying.. like if you were falling from plane with no parachute what would be your last thought.. how would you react.. would you face down towards your destiny.. or would the fear take hold and you'd face up so you dont expect the moment of deaththis would have some uses, imagine how much better a driver you could be if you could do things that would normally be dangerous to learn, once you've gotten good at the skilled stuff the mundane stuff would be easy, or you'd experience an action movie in first person leaping between train carriages, you'd be bound to get it wrong first time and wipeout on the top of a tunnel entrance but you could take your own experience much further than reality would allow
but how far would this go, would you get those who not only 'try' death but then go on dying in different ways, would there eventually become extreme stuntment/athletes those who not only do it but try to do it in their own unique way.. imagine if it eventually became a sport.. points awarded for style, technique, splatter.. i spose similar in a way to say crash mode on burnout
and would it strenghten your character, would you loose your fear or become a shivvering wreck
(im sure someone whos watched the matrix will instantly say that if you die in a game your body would die too, well maybe but we dont know for sure until it happens now do we)
