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Monday, July 13, 2026

An airline pilot skywrites ‘I’m bored’ over England-Wales border

 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/13/airline-pilot-skywrites-im-bored-over-north-west-england 

Is it possible that this pilot is unaware of the most advanced flight simulators?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/13/pilot-writes-im-bored-in-the-sky-during-test-flight/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5vx19ey0wo Is it possible that this pilot has never watched a 1999 movie about a supercomputer on the 13th floor of a building running various world simulations?

https://simpleflying.com/im-bored-pilot-skywriting-liverpool-test-flight

Is it possible that he is unaware of the Earth simulator project in Japan?

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-rvna#409cc8b0 

https://australianaviation.com.au/2021/03/adelaide-gets-overhaul-in-microsoft-flight-simulator 

While the Wright Brothers had no concept of VR or flight simulator technology, they were aware of the telephone and cinematography. 

Several decades after the Wright Brothers first flight, a game designer created SimEarth, Sim City and the Sims, to name a few. 

In the movie Source Code a supercomputer is able to run some simulations just before a crucial event in history. Eventually, the test subject realizes that he might be able to use the SC Simulator to leap into an alternate Earth.

Part of the HBO Westworld story is told from a VR or simulation perspective. 

Riz Virk is one of several people who have reason to think that this world might be part of a cosmic simulation. 

Tuesday, January 06, 2026

New OLEDs and monster-sized ZOO TV screens

 https://www.techradar.com/televisions/embargoed-5th-jan-3am-gmt-samsung-reveals-upgraded-oled-tvs-super-sized-screens-and-a-new-lifestyle-projector-at-ces-2026 

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/most-exciting-tvs-at-ces-2026/

https://www.techradar.com/televisions/lg-announces-the-lg-oled-evo-g6-tv-at-ces-2026-20-percent-brighter-lower-reflections-and-the-worlds-first-with-4k-120hz-cloud-gaming 

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-tvs

https://www.techradar.com/televisions/samsungs-next-gen-oled-tvs-leak-including-a-mysterious-new-elite-model 

https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/best-tv 

From flat and curved screens to VR holographic technology.

https://inairspace.com/blogs/learn-with-inair/holographic-tv-the-future-of-entertainment-is-here-and-its-changing-everything 

https://www.realfiction.com/project-echo , https://www.realfiction.com/holographic-displays 

https://www.realfiction.com/what-is-dpt 

https://www.holoconnects.com/news/exploring-hologram-technology  

In the 1950s-and-1960s, people started to have their living room also be their TV room. 

https://www.vintag.es/2021/07/1950s-living-rooms.html However, they might also opt to have a TV den. Expecting to have a TV in a hotel room or suite became commonplace. Of course the TVs were small, nowhere near the size of a window, door or wall. 

Decades before the concept of the Holodeck, Ray Bradbury thought up a sort of adventure room with 3D printed Lions, Tigers_and_Bears, or whatever other creatures, depending upon the setting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_(1950 short_story) 

The_Veldt was somewhere in-between-augmented-reality-and-mixed-reality and VR.  

https://interestingliterature.com/2022/06/ray-bradbury-the-veldt-summary-analysis

The Future of Entertainment Holograms, AI Actors, and Beyond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA8T95CbNA0 Of course the tech still isn't quite there yet, but at a certain point, things just might become indistinguishable from the-real-thing. 

Several years before the release of the first MATRIX movie in 1999, U2 unleashed their version of the ZOO-TV MATRIX.

U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing 

U2 - The Fly 

WATCH MORE TV 


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ZOO+TV  

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=VR+technology

Monday, December 04, 2023

The GTA 6 trailer, CGI, 3D and VR...

 https://www.gamesradar.com/gta-6-guide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto#Titles

https://www.reuters.com/technology/take-twos-rockstar-games-unveils-gta-vi-trailer-release-game-2025-2023-12-05/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_VI , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0

https://www.techradar.com/news/gta-6-release-date-news-and-rumors-mapping-the-path-to-grand-theft-auto-6

https://www.pcgamer.com/gta-6-all-the-rumours-in-one-place

50 THINGS YOU MISSED IN THE GTA 6 TRAILER! GTA 6 Trailer Breakdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsbZpD3CrBc

The Complete GTA (Grand Theft Auto) 3D Universe Timeline! | The Leaderboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTl80GoMcSM

History of Grand Theft Auto (1984 - 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKPUS7pu5Y


Grand Theft Auto Timeline - Part 1 - The 3D Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvIW5w3Y9MA


https://www.sportskeeda.com/gta/what-happened-gta-san-andreas-vr-current-state-release-date-rumors

https://kotaku.com/gta-san-andreas-vr-port-meta-quest-2-canceled-trailer-1850497164

https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-update-gta-san-andreas-vr-quest-3

Evolution of Grand Theft Auto [1997-2023] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbkDZcby0eA


The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine Experience Gameplay Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2gFPwm_EI


Why Unreal Engine 5.3 is a BIG Deal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POwTaVZ_CA0

Evolution of Unreal Engine [1995-2023] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaLiMiyi2g4


Comparison: Characters and Their Cars in "Fast and Furious" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxuA_Jzyppo

Thursday, September 29, 2022

What is an AI generated character?

https://www.inworld.ai/blog/what-is-an-ai-character

https://www.inworld.ai/blog/have-a-chat-with-ai-characters-from-wonderland

AI characters can be fun and exciting things.

https://www.soulmachines.com/technology

https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/gaming/a10698/inside-the-mind-of-the-sims-4

They can be multi-beneficial tools.

https://blog.readyplayer.me/series-b-announcement-a16z , https://wolf3d.io/about-us , https://readyplayer.me

The Sims: 

https://www.techradar.com/news/the-sims-4-could-use-ai-to-automatically-turn-photographs-into-characters

https://screenrant.com/sims-ea-patent-ai-character-create-creator-technology

However, what might happen if ever a fully sentient AI program entity goes into total runaway mode?

The 1995 movie Virtuosity provides an interesting cautionary depiction.

"In Los Angeles, Lt. Parker Barnes and John Donovan are testing a virtual reality system that is going to be used for training police officers. The two are tracking down a serial killer named SID 6.7 at a restaurant in virtual reality. SID (short for Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous, a VR amalgam of the most violent serial killers throughout history) causes Donovan to go into shock, killing him..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuosity#Plot


https://www.cyberpunkreview.com/category/man-machine-interface

What if a brain chip is like its own AI character?

The 2018 movie Upgrade depicts how an AI program eventually takes over a person mind and body. 

"Grey Trace, an automechanic, lives with his wife Asha who works for Cobolt, one of the companies contributing to human-computer augmentations. Grey asks Asha to help him return a refurbished car to his client Eron Keen, a renowned tech innovator. While visiting his home, Eron reveals his latest creation, a chip called STEM that can manage a human's motor functions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upgrade_(film)#Plot


The 2014 Intelligence_TV_series had a fascinating premise.

"Gabriel Vaughn is a high-tech intelligence operative enhanced with a super-computer microchip in his brain. With this implant, Gabriel is the first human ever to be connected directly into the globalized information grid. He can get into any of its data centers and access key intel files..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_(American_TV_series)#Plot


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Upgrade

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

The AR, VR, MR and Metaverse Intersection

 Augmented_Reality is essentially a digital intersection of various kinds of data for entertainment and learning. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality#Comparison_with_virtual_reality

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/augmented-reality-AR

https://www.apple.com/ca/augmented-reality , https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/07/24/apple-tvs-mythic-quest-teaser-targets-teamwork-the-metaverse

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/augmented-reality

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/07/25/2485176/0/en/Augmented-Reality-Market-size-worth-88-4-billion-by-2026.html

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/slideshows/google-expands-list-of-android-phones-that-are-certified-to-run-ar-apps-these-are-the-names/photolist/93102374.cms

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/25/23054367/google-ar-glasses-glassholes-coming-back

https://computer.howstuffworks.com/augmented-reality.htm

https://la.disneyresearch.com/innovations/magic-bench/

https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-augmented-reality-2015-10

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-the-metaverse 2022

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-technologies-that-are-taking-us-to-metaverse-in-2022

https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/the-roles-of-vr-ar-and-mr-on-the-metaverse-593569cfb686

https://pixelplex.io/blog/vr-and-metaverse/

https://101blockchains.com/metaverse-vs-virtual-reality

Why Metaverse is the Future of Work... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgIwgtN7xgU , https://www.youtube.com/c/Aluxcom/videos

Microsoft Metaverse vs Facebook Metaverse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DpJlRbbgGU CNET Highlights

Microsoft vs. Zuck's Metaverse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUfCr3hz9FE , https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnCooganPlus/videos

The Metaverse could be a problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgJwPco3wew , https://www.youtube.com/c/Mrwhosetheboss/videos

Trapped in the Metaverse: Here’s What 24 Hours in VR Feels Like | WSJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtLTZUaMSDQ

https://hypebeast.com/2022/7/hbo-game-of-thrones-house-of-the-dragon-dracarys-augmented-reality-app

https://business.adobe.com/ca/resources/5-realworld-examples-of-augmented-reality-innovation.html

The Flux of it all...

https://www.coremedia.com/blog/how-to-elevate-your-digital-business-in-a-world-of-flux

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/562639949/the-metaverse-platform-flux-to-service-the-game-of-24-million-fan-base-fortress-as-its-nft-game

https://fluxofficial.medium.com/flux-shaping-the-metaverse-with-blockchain-technology-1dc36f5d7bd

https://nl.mashable.com/tech-2/6569/metaverse-platform-flux-to-service-fortress-as-nft-game

Poppy - Flux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C68Okt3Qg8M A frustrating flux of a time in the metaverse.


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AR

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The Flight Simulator and the Brainstorm movie...

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2022/06/15/free-world-update-x-adds-united-states-and-us-territories-vistas-to-microsoft-flight-simulator

Microsoft_Flight_Simulator continues to grow in popularity.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1250410/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_Game_of_the_Year_Edition

https://www.ign.com/videos/microsoft-flight-simulator-halos-pelican-dropship-gameplay

https://www.pcgamer.com/flying-a-halo-spaceship-in-microsoft-flight-sim-shouldnt-work-this-well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Add-ons,_customisation,_and_community_involvement

https://www.flightsimulator.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Reception

What happens when flight simulator technology eventually becomes a seamless blend of AR and VR? 

A VR Life_simulation_game can depict any kind of song or story, person, City or world in any era. A bike or a car, an Airplane just Taking_Off or a Starship heading in for Shore_Leave. 

That's what the movie Brainstorm implies in a subtle way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Plot

Brainstorm ends at the Wright_Brothers_National_Memorial with the symbolism of VR being like Aviation,_as_an_emerging_technology. At the start of powered flying machines, the flight simulator-AR concept hadn't caught on yet in 1903, 1904 or 1905. The ending of Brainstorm in 1983 was a time when most people still had no concept of Virtual Reality.

https://www.twiddy.com/blog/north-carolina-movies-guide/Brainstorm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation#Pioneer_Era_(1903-1914)

https://www.twiddy.com/blog/icons-of-the-outer-banks/wright-brothers-legacy-outer-banks

So, the Wright_brothers ideas and inventions lead to the first_powered_flight vehicles with a pilot. This would eventually require the development of the flight_simulator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_simulator#History_of_flight_simulation 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_simulator#Modern_high-end_flight_simulators

While the Wright brothers never went into flight_simulator R&D, another Wright several decades later, became interested in creating simulated cities and human sims... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Wright_(game_designer)

Saturday, June 11, 2022

The ability to upload a brain into a computer versus AR and VR

 https://thenextweb.com/news/when-will-i-be-able-to-upload-my-brain-to-a-computer

A Brain Implant That Turns Your Thoughts Into Text | Tom Oxley | TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fiaew7nDmE

Using A.I. to build a better human | The Age of A.I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrv8ga02VNg

Transferring one's mind or consciousness into a computer is still a Sci-Fi concept. However, a noninvasive Wi-Fi like connection is already around as a Brain-Computer_Interface. (BCI).

This was depicted in the movie, Brainstorm_(1983). A person could experience various moments from another person's life, even their death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Plot

Brainstorm has a subtle implication of Flight_simulator technology eventually becoming life simulator technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_simulator#Amateur_and_video_game_flight_simulation

https://www.twiddy.com/blog/north-carolina-movies-guide/#:~:text=Brainstorm%2C%20a%20sci-fi%20thriller,Monument%20in%20Kill%20Devil%20Hills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_simulator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazu_Rock_Carvings A nice symbolic depiction of the cosmic hard disk drive of life experience. Consciousness, energy and light. Is it a particle or a wave? Do you prefer a HDD or a SSD? https://www.pcmag.com/news/ssd-vs-hdd-whats-the-difference
More people are starting to consider that this world might be part of someone's game or simulation.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hdd-vs-ssd

"All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..."









Thursday, April 14, 2022

Sinking of the Titanic

Was the Sinking_of_the_Titanic something that could have been prevented? Or, was it all prerecorded?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic#14_April_1912

If this world is part of an interactive cosmic recording of space and time, then perhaps some writers are able to occasionally and unknowingly, tap into a flickr of some data from a future point in time. Could that have been the case with, The_Wreck_of_the_Titan:_Or,_Futility in 1898? 

https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/futility-or-wreck-of-titan

https://titanic.fandom.com/wiki/Futility,_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785360.Futility_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan

It's not that a writer or visionary will always sense or see all the details, sometimes it might just be a few perceived points, or less.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/the-wreck-of-the-titan

The_Time_Tunnel TV series depicted the_possibility_of_time_travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Tunnel#Episodes

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holosuite

https://headhuntersholosuite.fandom.com/wiki/Time_travel

https://www.iann.net/timetunnel/index.htm

https://headhuntersholosuite.fandom.com/wiki/Time_Tunnel:_Rendezvous_with_Yesterday

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060036/mediaviewer/rm413040641

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org


Visual technology has finally reached a point where anything from history or even comic book characters, can be depicted in a virtual 3D setting.

https://theconversation.com/star-treks-holodeck-from-science-fiction-to-a-new-reality-74839

How Avengers: Endgame's Visual Effects Were Made | WIRED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHCp62jC84

Even simulated or VR Time Travel is possible.

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Virtuosity and Gamer, etc...

The movies Virtuosity and Gamer are in some ways, like two stories that are at opposite ends of the spectrum. 

"In Los Angeles, Lt. Parker Barnes and John Donovan are testing a virtual reality system that is going to be used for training police officers. The two are tracking down a serial killer named SID 6.7 at a restaurant in virtual reality. SID (short for Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous, a VR amalgam of the most violent serial killers throughout history) causes Donovan to go into shock, killing him. The director overseeing the project, before Commissioner Elizabeth Deane and her associate, William Wallace, orders the programmer in charge of creating SID, Dr. Darrel Lindenmeyer, to shut down the project..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuosity#Plot (1995)

Virtuosity is an interesting story about a psycho runaway AI-VR program that escapes into the physical world. In essence, it's a digital entity that wants to unleash its monstrous ways upon the world.

In Gamer, a psycotic computer programmer is enthralled with the prospect of using nanotechnology to turn some people into remote-controlled puppets.

"In 2034, computer programmer Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) invents self-replicating nanites that replace brain tissue and allow humans to control other humans' actions and see through their eyes. The first application of Castle's "Nanex" technology is a virtual community life simulation game, Society, which allows gamers to manipulate live actors as their avatars. Society becomes a worldwide sensation, making Castle the richest man in the world. He then creates Slayers, a first-person shooter where the "characters" are death-row prisoners using real weapons in specially created arenas. Unlike Society actors, Slayers participants are not paid; instead, they volunteer in exchange for the promise that any Slayer who survives 30 matches will earn his freedom (though no one ever has).

John "Kable" Tillman (Butler) is the crowd's favorite, having survived a record 27 matches (no inmate before him has managed to last more than ten). He is exclusively controlled by Simon (Lerman), a seventeen-year-old superstar gamer from a wealthy family.

An activist organization called the "Humanz" hacks a talk-show interview with Castle and claims that his technology will one day be used to control people against their will..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamer_(2009_film)#Plot


The 'Gamer' Movie... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwRYze6ZikU , https://www.youtube.com/c/Joeseppi/videos


In the first Avatar movie, genetic ET copies are grown. Then a person can link and remotely control their physical avatar like a puppet on another world (Pandora). As long as people want to be free in this worlds reality, they might want to think twice about ever fully becoming someone's DNA Avatar or VR puppet. However, since the protagonist in Avatar (Jake_Sully) was a paraplegic, it was advantageous for his consciousness to eventually transferred into a younger, LARGER and stronger body. https://james-camerons-avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Tree_of_Souls   


Digital entities and DNA copies.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=digital+actors

Friday, December 24, 2021

Alastair and The Sims...

Alastair_Sim was a human actor that stared in the Scrooge_(1951_film), in which he encountered a few sim like ghosts in his earthly reality. The concept of sentient entities or ghosts from a different frequency of the universe that can temporarily intersect and interact on this dimensional plane of existence, has been around since ancient times.

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Ghost

https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/ts4-ghosts

"A guide to all ghost powers and abilities in The Sims 4, including interactions with other sims and with objects." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgT8eaCsdg4 , https://www.youtube.com/c/PeteyPlaysIt/videos

So what if Alastair_Sim as the Scrooge character, was in a simulation story interacting with sim-ghosts? What if this world is part of some kind of a cosmic construct of reality? 

"The Sims series is part of the larger Sim series, started by SimCity in 1989."


The 3D characters & the ghosts are all sims in the computer game & program.


Charles_Dickens was essentially writing about ghost-sims in the earth reality or simulation back in the 1840s.


A world where ghosts, vampires, monsters, tricksters and Jokers can pop in or out of this reality in an instance.



From a cantankerous old man story to a kids story playing in a very high-tech sandbox or VR room. 

The_Illustrated_Man was published in 1951, the same year as the Scrooge movie.

https://wikimedia.org/Holodeck



https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Holodeck2.jpg (What if your life is a lemon? Then you might try to see if you can improve things.)

U2 performing Lemon in the Holodeck MATRIX. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcx9F_FW2U


There is a line in the movie, The_Thirteenth_Floor. Someone asks, how many worlds are in the simulation? 


Elon+Musk: Are We Living in a Simulation?
"Among popular public thinkers advocating for the simulation hypothesis is Elon Musk who stated: if you assume any rate of improvement at all, games will eventually be indistinguishable from reality“ before concluding “that its most likely we’re in a simulation. Elon Musk is known in the philosophical community to make "outrageous" claims, whether its about the advent of digital superintelligence, or in this case, according to some skeptics of the simulation hypothesis, Elon Musk exaggerates the probability that we might be living in a simulation. Another high-profile proponent to the hypothesis is famous astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, who said in an NBC news interview that the hypothesis is correct giving “better than 50-50 odds” and adding: I wish I could summon a strong argument against it, but I can find none In a review of the literature on simulated realities, philosopher Nick Bostrom argues that although it is difficult to prove that we are living in a simulation, "It is nevertheless generally considered acceptable philosophy to question the reality of our own existence. A typical member of an advanced civilization would have a high probability of being among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones. Therefore, if we are typical, we should consider that we might be living in a simulation. Thus, the possibility that we are living in a simulation is greater than we might have supposed. Some hypotheses hold that if it is possible to simulate reality, then it is also possible to leave behind copies of everyone within these simulations. It has further been suggested that these simulated people may be conscious or sentient, although this idea belongs more in the realm of philosophy rather than scientific inquiry.  
Although the simulation hypothesis has sound philosophical arguments, before its taken seriously scientifically, proponents of the hypothesis have to produce experiments to support the idea with evidence." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3VPRow8xI4 , https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceTime24/videos




Donald Hoffman Proves That We Live in a Simulation


2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?




Digital Combat Simulator World https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoIiSS0lfL7aX4BtbC-YGQA


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=simulation 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Alastair+and+The+Sims

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Sims Humanoids from clay to digital dolls. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Nature+Of+Reality

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis

Thursday, December 23, 2021

From the Simulacron-3 story to the Earth Simulator 4 Supercomputer

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3

http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2016/12/review-of-simulacron-3-by-daniel-galouye.html

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/807801.Simulacron_3

"McBain at this point has realized the nature of his own reality, and jokingly asks Jane, "So, is somebody going to unplug me now?" She answers "no", so McBain follows with the request "Look, do me a favor, when you get back to wherever it is you come from, just leave us the hell alone down here, okay?"

David's death as Hall in the 1990s simulation allows Hall's artificial consciousness to take control of David's body in the real world. He wakes in 2024, connected to a VR system. He disconnects the system and finds Jane and her father, the real Hannon Fuller. Jane wants to tell Hall more about the simulation, but as she begins the film ends, the screen image collapsing to a thin line of light before going dark like a computer monitor being turned off." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor#Plot


At the end of The 13th Floor movie, was it merely artificial consciousness or a digital copy of the original? In the movie Source Code, the actual persons consciousness is transmitted into another timeline. 


About half a year after the release of The 13th Floor and The Matrix, construction commenced on The Earth Simulator. 

"Construction started in October 1999, and the site officially opened on 11 March 2002." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Simulator (TES)

However, TES wasn't meant to simply be a giant video-game console.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/09/27/jamstec-goes-hybrid-on-many-vectors-with-earth-simulator-4-supercomputer

Unlike the ending of the Source_Code movie, the technology doesn't exist yet to transmit a persons consciousness into an alternate time-line.

"Being more sympathetic to his plight, Goodwin sends Stevens back one last time and promises to disconnect his life support after eight minutes. This time, he sets a date with Christina, defuses the bomb, apprehends Frost, and reports him to the police. He calls his father under the guise of a fellow soldier and reconciles with him, and sends Goodwin an email. After eight minutes, Goodwin terminates Stevens' life support.

As the world around him continues to progress beyond eight minutes, Stevens confirms his suspicion that Source Code is not merely a simulation, but rather a machine that allows him to create alternate timelines. Christina and he leave the train and go on a date. In the same (alternate) reality, Goodwin receives Stevens' message. He tells her of Source Code's true capability and asks her to help the alternate-reality version of him." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code#Plot


Source+Code Emotional Scene (Phone call)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHOUYa5dvJA


"A man travels back in time to get help from his younger self to confront their late father." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adam_Project#Premise


Digital Combat Simulator World https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoIiSS0lfL7aX4BtbC-YGQA 

DCS World is just one of the many ways that a person can simulate time travel. (TT)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems#D-Wave_2X_and_D-Wave_2000Q

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Q_System_One  


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+13th+Floor

Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Oculus Quest VR

 The Oculus_Quest VR system is good but a big visual leap does indeed, remain to be seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Quest#Software

https://www.oculus.com/quest-2 , https://www.oculus.com/experiences/

Of course the big leap is when the VR tech finally becomes so photo-realistic that you almost forget that you are using VR in the first place.

https://www.androidcentral.com/oculus-quest-2-update-adds-space-sense-and-android-phone-notifications

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/2/22759688/oculus-quest-2-vr-headset-meta-space-sense-passthrough-guardine-software-update

https://kotaku.com/oculus-quest-update-helps-you-not-punch-children-1847984765

https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/oculus-quest-2-virtual-reality-vr-headset/

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/oculus-quest-2

https://www.theverge.com/21437674/oculus-quest-2-review-features-photos

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/16/review-facebooks-oculus-quest-2-is-outstanding/

https://360rumors.com/oculus-quest-2-vs-rift-s-oculus-link-wireless-pc-vr-tutorial/

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/09/introducing-oculus-quest-2-the-next-generation-of-all-in-one-vr

https://about.facebook.com/technologies/portal 


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=VR+technology

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AR

What’s really behind Facebook’s rebrand to Meta?

 https://www.retailwire.com/discussion/whats-really-behind-facebooks-rebrand-to-meta

This is a big step for FB and Mark+Zuckerberg, indeed.

https://www.theverge.com/22749919/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-meta-company-rebrand

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/051815/top-11-companies-owned-facebook.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms#Revenue

Of course AR and VR tech is the way of the future.

https://www.theverge.com/22752986/meta-facebook-andrew-bosworth-interview-metaverse-vr-ar

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/11/update-on-use-of-face-recognition

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/04/oculus-gaming-showcase/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/02/meta-parallel-metaverses-facebook-name-change-challenged

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse

https://carrus.io/5-key-differences-between-working-at-google-and-facebook

FB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGbWn6iwHw

https://www.retailwire.com/discussion/is-retail-ready-to-enter-the-metaverse


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+metaverse 

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Are we all living in a Cosmic Matrix?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/04/a-glitch-in-the-matrix-documentary-rodney-acher

A lot of people just never bothered to deeply ponder, The Nature Of Reality. (TNOR)

TRON is just Sci-Fi entertainment, as is THE+MATRIX , etc.

https://builtin.com/hardware/simulation-theory

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50

Many people were already busy with life in general to really think of the big picture.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/10/18275618/simulation-hypothesis-matrix-rizwan-virk

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-matrix-do-we-live-in-a-simulation-2019-4

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=THE+MATRIX

By this point in history or the cosmic interactive recording and projection, people have science as well as legends and myths to explore and compare TNOR with the help of VR technology. https://www.fusionanomaly.net/virtualreality.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-america-thinks-theres-a-50-chance-we-live-in-a-matrix-2016-9

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/07/tech-billionaires-think-we-live-in-the-matrix-and-have-asked-scientists-to-get-us-out.html , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nFdlvYxjpI

https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-america-wonders-about-the-matrix-2016-9

People have had over 2 decades to gradually absorb the various concepts of reality.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3788735/There-50-chance-living-Matrix-world-simply-SIMULATION-says-Bank-America.html

What if the universe or multiverse is in something like an IMAX or a VR Planetarium?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9625703/Physics-Scientists-capture-highest-resolution-images-atoms.html

How would we even know? https://www.fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9625141/Largest-map-dark-matter-created-using-light-100-MILLION-galaxies.html

Various religions and philosophies have implied that this cosmic construct is the product of some kind of Superintelligence , a creator or programmer... 

Thus, from their perspective this world is part of a cosmic Simulation. 

https://hackernoon.com/religion-and-the-simulation-hypothesis-is-god-an-ai-part-i-e2ac0016ca1e

https://www.zenentrepreneur.com RV https://www.zenentrepreneur.com/more-info

https://hackernoon.com/tagged/the-matrix , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis

RV and NB have such interesting perspectives that sometimes intersect or overlap.

https://www.nickbostrom.com

Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfKiTGj-zeQ

Nick Bostrom & Ros Picard • God, AI & the future of humanity: Is technology the key to immortality? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHcrLpWICm8 , https://www.youtube.com/c/Unbelievableshow/videos


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+MATRIX+intersection


https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Simulation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetstemwedel/2015/08/23/the-philosophy-of-star-trek-the-kobayashi-maru-no-win-scenarios-and-ethical-leadership/?sh=3c00441d5f48

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/incredible-star-trek-the-next-generation-simulation-ordered-to-stand-down/

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holodeck

https://theconversation.com/star-treks-holodeck-from-science-fiction-to-a-new-reality-74839

https://www.healthysimulation.com/14175/the-kobayashi-maru-lessons-on-simulation-from-star-trek

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Picard



https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=simulation

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=TNOR 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=VR+technology

Full Immersion (VR) Virtual Reality

Full Immersion_(virtual_reality) could still be decades away. Unless...?  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(virtual_reality)#Types

https://medium.com/tech-topics/how-close-are-we-to-full-dive-vr-20e128fd1f19

https://elarasystems.com/full-immersion-vr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(virtual_reality)#Immersive_virtual_reality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environment

Of course Plato wrote about the allegory_of_the_cave a long time ago.

https://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm

Then make the jump from an ancient cave to an IMAX#Theatre or a planetarium. 

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/12-astonishing-planetariums-you-have-to-see 

https://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/story/news/local/2021/05/07/worlds-most-advanced-planetarium-system-comes-peoria-riverfront-museum/4992398001

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/virtual-reality-planetarium-patrick-mcpike

https://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/360-video , https://www.es.com/digistar

https://creativeplanet.pl/en/services

Then think of a hybrid of IMAX#Virtual_reality and a VR Planetarium. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave#Influence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(virtual_reality)#Immersive_digital_environments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Benayoun#In_virtual_reality_and_augmented_reality

At a certain point some people might start to ponder that the Cosmos is in the equivalent of someones Planetarium. 

The Flammarion_engraving from 1888 is a fascinating depiction of a person that has been able to see beyond the realm of the cave, theater or planetarium. Nature and technology on a higher plane of reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion#Quotations

Then it becomes a case of how vast is this cosmic projection of space and time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/03/15/this-is-why-the-multiverse-must-exist/?sh=a21ae736d086 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvcOQk6G0Q

https://www.space.com/18811-multiple-universes-5-theories.html

The Multiverse Hypothesis Explained by Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6OoaNPSZeM

A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnETCBOlzJs Dec 29, 2014

Leonard Susskind - How Many Universes Exist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuWDzQ-tiZ8 Dec 23, 2015

Whether there are many or its just the Universe, this world seems to be part of an interactive recording and projection of data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Physical_properties

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-improbable-existence-is-no-evidence-for-a-multiverse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime#Introduction_to_curved_spacetime

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Simulation Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcrG7ZZKUc Mar 17, 2020

Are You In A Simulation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d9i_0Ty7Cg Sep 21, 2017

The Simulation Hypothesis | Rizwan Virk | Talks at Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHlfe2HE_gQ Aug 7, 2019


The-Nature-Of-Reality :: 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Nature+Of+Reality

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis