PROFESSOR DAVID LANE
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Post by PROFESSOR DAVID LANE on Nov 2, 2015 2:44:22 GMT
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José
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Post by José on Nov 5, 2015 18:39:59 GMT
I woke up after a bad dream and couldn’t sleep anymore. I decided to hit my schoolwork instead of attempting to go back to sleep. The first thing I open is this link to extra credit. I’m going back to the dream for a second. The dream was so vivid, that I woke up angry and crying (specifics are unnecessary). I couldn’t tell if I had just woken up from a bad dream or the dream actually had happened. It took me a few minutes to realize, it was just a bad dream caused by recent stresses. Then, I watch a video on the eventuality of us being lost in the near future between what is real and what is not. At first, I was taken back by the idea. As I have never experienced VR, (as in the case of Professor Lane). Half way into the video however, I begin to get lost in the lightshow, it overwhelmed me, it drenched me and I felt somehow empowered, even if for a few seconds. Then I realize, something odd has just happened. Either VR, really does work in all its form or I’m in a really bad need for coffee. There’s a mention that next year VR gadgets will be all he rage. It reminded of an attraction at the Magic Kingdom in Florida, Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress, where you sit on a gondola-type of cart and go through the years of technological advancement. Indeed the predictions of tomorrow are happening. It made me think of how and whether we will be able to tell the difference between reality and not. If VR can create an out of body experience similar to the way we can via concentration, how will we know the difference once the goggles come off?
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Post by marie on Nov 8, 2015 23:41:10 GMT
Watching the video, The Avatar Project reminds me of the movie, “Her” in that the main character is captivated and transported into another world thru virtual reality.
Theodore, the main character, and Samantha, the operating system, fall in love and into a relationship. Theodore, also doesn’t need a physical companion to fulfill his pleasures, it is accomplished through virtual reality. Will these be “alternative” relationships? Theodore plays a video game. The character, an alien, is a hologram and interacts with him during the game. Eventually, they can interact on a personal level as the alien learns to adapt on a higher level.
Virtual reality started out as the View Master and a Kaleidoscope and has evolved to sophisticated head-sets and computers. As stated in the Avatar video, “virtual reality will become our magic carpet for out-of-body transport.” It very well may be that we can take that vacation we always wanted but couldn’t afford. Put on a virtual reality headset and pick your vacation destination, a date or the evening’s entertainment. We will be able to jump on the VR plane and be transported anywhere with anyone. We are conscious about our wants and needs and meditate about what the future brings in regards to technology.
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Post by Henry Gonzalez on Nov 9, 2015 8:40:09 GMT
The Video “The Avatar Project” is about how the future one will transcend into the subtle realm through technology of virtual reality than the actual reality of meditation to reach enlightenment. The Subtle level which Ken Wilber describes is the point where one starts to transcend into the light of a higher plane where they meet the highest form of existence like a God and begin to see the reality as not as a physical being but at another lever of existence that is only reached by Higher forms of beings. The Reality of this persons self and meaning of life is left behind and they see other dimensions and beyond, in this realm of transcendence leaving the physical into the ultimate awareness of mind and the psyche. So how does one reach the subtle plain using Virtual reality? The Video shows how we will become avatars or oneself is transported into the virtual and is represented as a digital character than actual physically being there. It represents ourselves virtually. V.R. can help in the transcendence cause one don’t have to meditate or practice years to reach a higher plane of awareness they can instantly be in a virtual instant subtle plane of existence. Technology of V.R. would develop so profound that reality would be indistinguishable with the virtual and the person in the V.R. would not know unless be told about the reality that they are in a V.R. Ken Wilber’s Subtle realm is realized because through the technology of V.R. one can reach any level of awareness it’s just a matter the advancement of the technology so one day it will be the reality and a point where it is true. He describes how one can reach the subtle plain through meditation where one can transcend to another plane of existence but you don’t need all that just the machine to get there instantly. What the Avatar project means that people could reach a point of bliss by just entering the virtual reality and they can experience anything they want.
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Post by cdelatorre17 on Nov 13, 2015 0:29:11 GMT
So after watching this video I felt like there has been many movies that have shown this same type of idea. The first movie I thought of was "Repo Man", and in that movie people use machine made organs to survive versus using human like organs. But the other thing that they show in this movie that relates more to this topic is when people go into a coma and you can't let them go or pull the plug on them you plug them into this cerebral machine that gives them nice and good dreams, but the person attached does not know it is. It seems so real the person is actually living but they are actually paralyzed to the world and are meaningless. Another movie was "Her" and how people make these relationships with technology and then the technology decides to do it's own thing and they leave the humans, and go into la la land. The humans have a hard time accepting this and that is where the movie ends. It is very sad to see that that is the way our generation is going. Do we really need a machine attached to ourselves to be disconnected with the world? Most children that I know cannot even function if it were not for video games or the ipad, everyone is so eager to be plugged into some sort of social media who is to say that we are lost now?
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