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Will full dive VR cause the real world to be abandoned?

Started by Eric333, October 26, 2023, 09:02:36 PM

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BoxCrayonTales

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May 11, 2024, 09:18:28 AM
Quote from: Crazy_Blue_Haired_Chick on May 06, 2024, 01:29:51 PM
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on November 06, 2023, 08:37:36 AMIf it does, then it will exacerbate the climate crisis. Why care about the deteriorating Earth when you can live in VR?

I'm currently working on a tabletop setting where people use VR to distract themselves from the worsening climate crisis. And by worsening, I mean people have to wear protective gear to go outside.

You know you might be onto the next big science fiction novel.


sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation.

Maybe. It's not originally my idea, I got from reading TSR's old Kromosome setting book. But I haven't seen any other book or game like it, so it still has novelty value in today's work of "all cyberpunk is a ripoff of Cyberpunk 2077."

Kromosome wasn't your typical cyberpunk setting. It was more interested in the relationship between man and the environment. It was bleak in the sense that Earth was barely inhabitable and million died constantly due to plagues, disasters, heat waves, ozone depletion, etc, traditional centralized nationstates have collapsed in favor of loosely aligned city states, family businesses, and criminal syndicates, but hopeful in the sense that technology (particularly biotechnology) was advancing enough to keep humanity just solvent enough. There was limited solar system colonization, but basically most spacers were on their own.

The premise is still timely, even three decades later.

Omega

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May 12, 2024, 05:32:36 AM
Quote from: Crazy_Blue_Haired_Chick on May 06, 2024, 01:29:51 PM
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on November 06, 2023, 08:37:36 AMIf it does, then it will exacerbate the climate crisis. Why care about the deteriorating Earth when you can live in VR?

I'm currently working on a tabletop setting where people use VR to distract themselves from the worsening climate crisis. And by worsening, I mean people have to wear protective gear to go outside.

You know you might be onto the next big science fiction novel.



Someone did a short movie on that theme. VR/ARG to cover all the enviro and work problems. Theres a few others that explore ARG/VR used to just gloss over how bad things are.

Omega

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May 12, 2024, 05:36:04 AM
Long long ago there was a short story series about a new technology that came to the fore instead of VR.

Recording and then being able to play back and experience dreams.

Forget who wrote it. But one story dealt with the inventor recruiting people who could dream clearly. Another dealt with a rival bootlegging sex dreams.
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