"William Mook" wrote in message
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This sort of thing tied in with 3D goggles - that you can wear and
still see things in your environment - to create virtual keyboard and
virtual display and virtual mouse or trackpad - tied to the
orientation and location of a handset. Or placed there and
'released' so you can use the handset AS a handset.

Now that's interesting. Because complexity science always looks
for the best solution as an unstable balance between opposite
extremes in possibility. For virtual reality, the solution would take
the form of first identifying the two opposites in possible behavior.
For this 'system' one extreme is just reality alone with no electronic
interface. The opposite would be total immersion in a virtual world
with no aspects of reality involved.

The solution would then be to, not just merge the two opposites, but
to /maximize each opposite/ then combine the two into a single
system. Such as a democracy being a dynamic balance between the
maximum anount of rule of law, while allowing a maximum
of it's opposite....freedom.

So the ideal virtual world would be like you describe, something that
can place a person in their chosen form of 'heaven' while also
being fully able to deal with reality.

The criteria would then be something that wouldn't negatively effect
daily work, but still provide a personal heaven.

It's almost happening really at an entry level, there are two people at
work that talk on their headsets every minute of the day, to their spouses
or whatever, while working away just fine.

Videa games are too immersive. The Internet and reality also require
all of our attention. So a combination of the three, so that no one
can tell which dominates, dynamically interacting, would be the
sweet spot.













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