Disruptions: The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape

This is why I believe a device that gives you access to Virtual Worlds like a Head Mounted Display, one that is consciously put on and taken off, is far preferable to being able to be live in or appear to live in a virtual world without boundaries, one of our own creation. The psychiatric community already has a name for that condition, Schizophrenia. Paging Dr. Frankenstein. I get that this whole VR thing is very dicey in any form.

"Dr. Kaku warned that there were dangers with this technology. “One day, people might prefer to live in a virtual world rather than the real one,” he said.

That is what happened on Star Trek. In one episode, Lt. Reginald Barclay becomes dependent on computer-generated versions of his colleagues for friendships, preferring virtual relationships to real ones. He ultimately requires therapy from Lt. Cmdr. Deanna Troi, the ship’s counselor, to wean himself off the simulations and back to everyday life."

Already the gleam in the eye of "Mr. Virtual Reality" Luckey Palmer creator of the Oculus Rift and his minions:

"Meanwhile, we ended the interview by asking Luckey to imagine a virtual world he'd want to live in.
"A better version of the world we're in today," he said.
And how would that happen?
"By allowing people to be whoever they want to be. VR does a great job of that."

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