The Digital Labyrinth :: TDL: Search results for VR

Of course a lot of people can hardly wait until there are full Immersion_(virtual_reality) games... Especially with a 1 or 2 hour setting in which the experiencer actually thinks that they are in that particular game world.

https://www.ign.com/articles/cyberpunk-2077-hands-on-preview-what-we-think-after-4-hours-in-night-city

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3#Plot_summary 1963/1964

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity#Gameplay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Simulator , https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nec-build-japans-next-earth-simulator-supercomputer

There are some potential risks, so it still could be a while until such advanced VR systems are available to the public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(virtual_reality)#Detrimental_effects

In the early 1990s, the band U2 helped to promote the ZOO+TV entertainment MATRIX.

Harsh_Realm (1999) looked like it could have been quite a wild simulation experience. https://www.wired.com/1999/05/x-files-creator-goes-virtual Sort of like a military version of SimCity. http://tactdb.blogspot.com/2014/04/harsh-realm-combat-virtual-reality-tv.html A VR war game immersion system sure wouldn't be set up for beginners. http://www.scififreaksite.com/harshrealm.html A full immersion VR effect could be achieved with something like a small version of a Cerebro type device. https://them0vieblog.com/2015/10/14/harsh-realm-review Although extreme caution would be advised, some people would still be pushing things to the limit. http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2016/08/31/the-elevator-ritual-a-terrifying-vr-horror-experience There are all sorts of potential problems and liabilities when things start to get too realistic. https://www.vrfocus.com/2017/10/do-you-dare-enter-the-13th-floor-in-fantas-new-vr-experience

The_Thirteenth_Floor and Source_Code movies depict a level of VR tech where ones consciousness can be transferred into another body. Of course this tech would be at a level that's far beyond any digital sandbox_game even, No_Man's_Sky. (NMS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man's_Sky#Future

Sandbox_game-History & Life_simulation_games

The technology to transfer consciousness into something like a very advanced version of The_Sims & other Avatars, is still a Sci-Fi concept. In The_Matrix world, ones consciousness is only linked to a VR character. However, it is implied that if a sudden disconnect with The_Matrix occurs, there would be dire consequences.

Of course back in the early days when people were first exposed to the SimCity game, the tech and the graphics were quite limited. Yet, something very interesting was started. All you needed was a personal_computer to experience this new digital or Virtual_World. However, any kind of full immersion or consciousness transfer was just Sci-Fi entertainment.

Virtual_World-Entertainment

There was quite a big jump from the SimCity_(1989_video_game) to The_Matrix movie in 1999. The brilliant creators of The_Matrix_(franchise) wanted to depict a warning about, Out_of_Control A.I. run scenarios, where humans are mentally trapped in a simulated environment with various levels and versions. A small group of people try to break others out of the A.I. run simulation and only one human city remains in the "Real_World."

The_Thirteenth_Floor (1999) provided another fascinating version of a VR program with people being in something like a very advanced form of SimCity.

Of course something else interesting happened in the late 1990s. No_Maps_for_These_Territories#Background_and_premise

"It features appearances by Jack Womack, Bruce Sterling, Bono, and The Edge..."

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

So during the 1980s and 90s, Bono and the Edge had obviously become very interested with the writings of William_Gibson_and_the_evolution_of_cyberpunk.

Thus, the unofficial U2 entertainment MATRIX era started. Achtung_Baby,_Zoo_TV,_and_Zooropa_(1990-1993)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Bono_as_The_Fly_Cleveland_1992.jpg

Indeed by the early 1990s, Bono was doing his version of Neo in the SimCity MATRIX Thing. By 1992, the Even_Better_Than_the_Real_Thing-Music_video was ready.

In a way, the Zoo_TV_Tour was preparing people for the first Matrix movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8bnSQ8mR0 , https://www.u2.com/music/lyrics/42

Although it would have been cool for The_Matrix to have been filmed in Melbourne, Sydney was the better choice, overall.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Bono_performing_on_Zoo_TV_Tour_in_Melbourne_Nov_13_1993_3.jpg

"Zoo TV: Live from Sydney is a concert video release by Irish rock band U2. It was filmed on 27 November 1993 at Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney, Australia, during the "Zoomerang" leg of the group's Zoo TV Tour."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV:_Live_from_Sydney

"All but a few scenes were filmed at Fox Studios in Sydney, and in the city itself, although recognizable landmarks were not included in order to maintain the impression of a generic American city. The filming helped establish New South Wales as a major film production center.^[44] Filming began in March 1998 and wrapped in August 1998; principal photography took 118 days."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix#Filming in Australia.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/The_Matrix_Poster.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/NeoTheMatrix.jpg

The Matrix:_Path_of_Neo as the digital fly, doing his Superman Thing.

U2 and Neo:

"Neo was the oldest^[2] or one of the oldest^[3] running nightclubs in Chicago and was a hangout and venue for a variety of musicians and artists, including David Bowie, Iggy Pop, David Byrne, the Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and U2." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(nightclub)

There is a vast interconnected web of synchronicity with the concept of VR and advanced A.I. simulations in general. Its all part of The Simulation Hypothesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer#Background

"Seven years after the events of Neuromancer, strange things begin to happen in the Matrix..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Zero#Plot_introduction (1986)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa_Overdrive#Legacy

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

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

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Cyberpunk+2077

What is Synchronicity? What is The+MATRIX?

What is The Nature of Reality? (TNOR)

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

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

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Harsh+Realm

Saturday, July 03, 2010

ZOO TV, The MATRIX of VR and Holographic Data Storage...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/events/stadium-rock/zoo-tv-tour ,

https://www.u2.com/zoo_tv_tour/id/54 , http://fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html ,

Earth's location/ in the galaxy-zoo. + http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080210.html

ZOO_TV DVD Hybrid_drive

Bono_as_The_Fly_Cleveland_1992. Neo in 1999. Watch more ZOO TV. http://www.thematrix101.com/matrix , http://fusionanomaly.net/virtualreality.html

What is reality & how is all this cosmic information stored?
There could be many-worlds & levels within the Cosmos. VR technology has a long way to go until it attains what's depicted in some movies. Of course the universe might actually be a super advanced cosmic VR program. See: Michael_Talbot_(author)#The_Holographic_Universe &
http://www.theuniversesolved.com
Indeed, Jim Elvidge has quite a unique book & web site that provides compelling data about reality.
http://www.theuniversesolved.com/news.htm

Hopefully, many more people will start to ponder the notion of a Cosmic Operating System, figuratively or literally.
Detailed simulations of the Earth, this galaxy & even vast parts of the known universe can be constructed. Its just a matter of how much accurate data can be entered into a Sim program. Obviously, the closer to earth the more accurate such simulations can be.

September 17, 2008 - Films Showing Our Best Visualization of the Ocean's Circulation
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/ocean410/ocng410_course_schedule.html ,
http://www.top500.org/system/5628 ,
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/04/necs-updates-its-supercomputer-earth-simulator-system-breaks-record ,
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.php?DocID=239 ,
http://colossalstorage.net/home.htm ,
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/tech-5d-storage-dvd-polarization-colours-3d-swinburne-chon-nature.html

Eventually these simulations could become very realistic & cause many more people to wonder if they are already in simulation created by someone else?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS88G5WBcfQ&feature=related ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVsHjnY-o9s&feature=related
Indeed, most religions imply that a creator or force has already constructed the universe. Such an immensity of data would have to be organized like cosmic computer programs in the sky. The concept of Akashic_records has been around thousands of years before the development of Virtual Reality & the avatar-machine. Holographic-environments exist in a way & in a way they don't, its a quantum sort of thing.

Ashoka_Chakra ,
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/bud_wheel.htm

In ancient times, it would be difficult for most people to grasp the concept of a crystal ball. 3D images in a sphere or ovals are depicted on this disc of lives from the 1200s. These life experiences are part of the wheel of Karma concept. It could also be seen as an ancient depiction of a cosmic hard drive. Reincarnation#Buddhism & the big interactive recording of space & time.

http://www.harekrsna.com/philosophy/truth/karma.htm ,
http://www.buddhanet.net/wheel2.htm
This ancient wheel is depicting a video-disk. Its full of bubble images of various life experiences.
Douglas Trumbull would later expand on this image bubble concept in the movie, Brainstorm.
The Multiverse Disc Theory is just the modern version of the wheel of time & space concept.

Hard_disk_drive#Capacity_measurements
Today when most people see a hard drive or DVD, they know that sounds & images can be stored on them. Hard_disk_drive#Integrity Single-molecule_magnet#Future_applications ,

http://www.smarthdd.com/en/magnetic_record_technology.htm ,

http://hddscan.com/doc/HDD_from_inside.html ,

http://www.duxcw.com/digest/guides/hd/hd6.htm ,

http://hddscan.com/doc/HDD_Tracks_and_Zones.html ,

http://www.quickercomputer.com/quicker/defrag.html ,

Hybrid_drive Virtual_reality#Timeline ,

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/artem-rubtsov/9/97/19 ,

http://www.librarything.com/tag/virtual%20reality&more=1 ,

http://thefutureofthings.com/site/7895/galaxy-zoo.html ,

http://thefutureofthings.com/news/8295/-darkfield-lasers-let-mice-track-on-glass.html ,

http://thefutureofthings.com/news/9710/western-digital-tv-live-hd-media-player.html ,

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/tech-5d-storage-dvd-polarization-colours-3d-swinburne-chon-nature.html

Metaphor: Suppose a galaxy is essentially like a giant holographic_disc of space-time & other forms of data. There is shape & form that's like a pattern & program, so then what if the universe or cosmos is like a vast hard drive?

Then several of these HDs could be part of a multiverse. The wheel of karma is an ancient concept & eventually VR programs could simulate vast parts of the known universe. What's astounding is that several people since ancient times believe that a creator has started everything in the cosmos. So, if that's the case, then the whole thing is running like an immense & intricate cosmic program. Several scientists already have arrived at this conclusion. They just view nature & the cosmos as a running program without a creator. Whether by chance or created design, the universe is running like a well organized system.

The oval & the spiral are found throughout nature & space.

Some how since ancient times, humans have associated the shape of the wheel or disc as being connected to transportation & information.

http://www.theuniversesolved.com/theuniversesolved/blog/post/2009/02/First-Evidence-of-the-Multiverse.aspx

The Roots of the Matrix
http://fusionanomaly.net/cybernetics.html ,
http://www.thematrix101.com/matrix/symbolism.php ,

http://www.thematrix101.com/books , http://www.thematrix101.com/games

Since ancient times, several people had the idea that the earth & universe are in a created field of consciousness & data. Eventually sophisticated VR life experience worlds will be created.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/holographic-environment.htm

So, various ancient writings & legends imply that we are already in some kind of cosmic running program.

Nanotechnology: Big Things Emerging From The Smallest Components Of Matter
http://thefutureofthings.com/category/technology-2/nano-tech ,
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Nanotechnology

http://amal.net/?tag=technology

Dimensions: The Dimensional Ecology of the Multi-verse by, Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2008/10/post.html

(http://www.exopolitics.com)

http://thefutureofthings.com/category/science/physical-science/astronomy-space ,
http://thefutureofthings.com/category/ai-robotics

http://fusionanomaly.net/nodebase.html

Is The Holographic Universe concept just another wild theory?

Are people like lab mice in someone's cosmic game of life and death?

What would VR+technology be like after a century of development? What would VR be like after 1,000 or 100,000 years? It might seem to be Even Better Than The Real Thing.

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

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

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

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Quantum+Machine+Learning

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Researchers study mice brains with VR goggles

https://www.wionews.com/videos/researchers-study-mice-brains-with-vr-goggles

Mouse VR, WTH?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/15/health/video/mouse-vr-headset-alzheimers-research-ldn-digvid

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-mice-headsets-easier-brain-response.html

https://femtonics.eu/moculus/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02540-y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pose_tracking#Optical_tracking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display#Further_development_and_experimental_uses

Mouse Droid | Robot Chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbBdixsqC3U

What Do Mouse Droids Actually Do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aacaSFfo4s

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

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

Friday, April 22, 2022

The Story of Mankind, VR, ETc.

The_Story_of_Mankind is a cautionary movie from 1957.

It was shown on TCM this April.

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91525/the-story-of-mankind/#overview

A celestial court setting is the main focus of the movie. Key points in history are reviewed in something like a holographic theater format. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't reveal exactly how this interactive cosmic recording & projection of history is done. The story is clearly depicted from an anthropomorphic or humanoid perspective. There is no direct reference in the movie as to whether or not there are other inhabited worlds in this higher perspective.

A_Matter_of_Life_and_Death was released in 1946 and also deals with an otherworldly realm.

"On 2 May 1945, Squadron Leader Peter Carter, an RAF pilot, is flying a badly damaged and burning Lancaster bomber over the English Channel, after a mission over Germany. Carter is expecting to die, after ordering his crew to bail out, without revealing to them that his own parachute has been destroyed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Matter_of_Life_and_Death_(film)#Plot

Here_Comes_Mr._Jordan was released in 1941.

"On May 11, 1941, boxer and amateur pilot Joe Pendleton, affectionately known as "the Flying Pug", flies his small aircraft to his next fight in New York City, but crashes when a control cable severs. His soul is retrieved by 7013, an officious angel who assumed that Joe could not have survived. Joe's manager, Max "Pop" Corkle, has his body cremated. In the afterlife, the records show his death was a mistake; he was supposed to live for 50 more years. The angel's superior, Mr. Jordan, confirms this, but since there is no more body, Joe will have to take over a newly dead corpse. Jordan explains that a body is just something that is worn, like an overcoat; inside, Joe will still be himself." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Mr._Jordan#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1978_film)#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_to_Earth_(2001_film)#Plot

These fantasy stories imply that there is another reality on another dimensional plane of existence.

https://retellingthetales.com/myths-legends-fables-and-fairy-tales

Full immersion VR can be used to bring various fables, myths & legends into 3D life. It might also reveal more clues about the nature of reality. (TNOR) People kill each other all the time in video games & movies. However, there could be serious problems if people try to kill each other in full+immersion VR environments.

"Parents in a futuristic society worry about their children's mental health when their new virtual reality nursery, which can produce any environment the children imagine, continually projects an African veldt, populated by lions feasting on carcasses. A child psychologist suggests that the automated house is not good for the children's development, nor the parents', and insists they disable the automation and take a vacation to become more self-sufficient.

Ray_Bradbury was already exploring the VR concept in the very early 1950s. https://raybradbury.com

"The children are not pleased with this decision but later coolly agree to it. The children trap their parents in the nursery, where they become prey to the lions. They later have lunch on the veldt with the child psychologist. They then see the lions feasting but do not recognize what has happened." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man#The_Veldt (1951)

VR Mind Control Tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMXfyZc_Gvg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodeck , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis

If this world is part of something like a cosmic simulation, is it run by humans or some other kind of life or consciousness?

Alien Life: Will We Know It When We See It? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNtR5da5LIE

Of course given the perceived size of the universe, life might have evolved or have been started on various other worlds.

Why We May Be Surrounded by Older Alien Civilizations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrrNu_m_9K4

A Journey Beyond the Boundaries of the Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMA2wVYfdzc Kosmo

How Big Is The Universe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn3euL8Tbfw Cool Worlds

How Many Multiverses Are There? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jmNzlTd09E

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

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

Thursday, May 27, 2021

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

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

Friday, December 24, 2021

The Challenges and Future Possibilities of AI and Virtual Reality

https://bernardmarr.com/what-are-the-challenges-and-future-possibilities-of-virtual-reality

AI & VR will eventually become very intertwined.

https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/why-do-ai-and-vr-go-together-so-well/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/01/06/tech-experts-predict-13-areas-ai-and-vr-are-set-to-revolutionize/?sh=9448c8a25b02

https://www.xrtoday.com/mixed-reality/xr-predictions-2022-virtual-and-augmented-reality-in-the-future-of-work/

https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/why-are-photographic-avatars-vital-for-work-in-the-metaverse/

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

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

Monday, January 05, 2026

The Blazing Saddles of Westworld in the 1970s

Blazing_Saddles was released half a year after the 1973 Westworld_film. While Blazing_Saddles and Westworld aren't connected, they are both Westerns set in a fabricated environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(film)#Plot Of course in the 1970s, most people didn't have a frame of reference as to how amusement parks might evolve over several decades & generations. There wasn't a general frame of reference for Virtual-Reality (VR) , AR , MR_and_XR , yet.

https://bernardmarr.com/the-important-difference-between-augmented-reality-and-mixed-reality

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/beyond-ar-vs-vr-what-is-the-difference-between-ar-vs-mr-vs-vr-vs-xr?

https://www.argenie.ai/blogs/augmented-reality-artificial-intelligence-in-robotics-shaping-the-future-of-smart-factories

https://ilab.ucalgary.ca/ar-and-robotics , https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949882125000416

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3517719

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/mixed-reality-robots/overview/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/robotics-and-mixed-reality/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896319312613

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7354138

While Westworld consisted of a few interconnected amusement parks, Blazing Saddles broke the 4th wall to reveal a larger aspect of the backlot and production facilities within a modern urban setting.

https://collider.com/mel-brooks-fourth-wall-breaks

"The resulting brawl between townspeople, railroad workers, and Lamarr's thugs literally breaks the fourth wall and bursts onto a neighboring movie set where director Buddy Bizarre is filming a Busby Berkeley-style top-hat-and-tails musical number. The melee then extends into the studio commissary for a food fight and spills out of the Warner Bros. film lot onto the streets of Burbank.

Lamarr escapes the brawl and hails a taxi, instructing the cabbie, "Drive me off this picture!" He hides at Mann's Chinese Theatre, which is showing the premiere of Blazing Saddles. As he settles into his seat, he sees onscreen Bart arriving on horseback outside the theatre. Bart blocks Lamarr's escape and shoots him in the groin. Bart and Jim then enter the theater to watch the end of the film.

Back in the film, Bart announces to the townspeople that he is moving on because his work is done and he has grown bored with protecting them. Riding out of town, he finds Jim, still eating his popcorn, and invites him along to "nowhere special". The two friends briefly ride into the desert before dismounting and boarding a limousine which drives off into the sunset." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Saddles#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkmfmFYobE

Blast the bowl.

https://www.facebook.com/blazingsaddlesmovie/videos/blazing-saddles-breaks-the-4th-wall-and-shatters-all-the-rules-own-now-on-4k/783870567206187

The HBO Westworld_TV_series didn't break the 4th wall, but it told an updated and expanded story from various points in its timeline. The ultimate reveal was telling the last part of the story from a VR or simulation program perspective. There were some hints or clues of this right from the first season.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(TV_series)#Summary

https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld , https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory

World_on_a_Wire was released 2 months after Westworld (1973) and might as well be in another universe like Alphaville is set.

However, they are all various takes on a fabricated reality, as is The_Truman_Show.

https://theasc.com/articles/the-truman-show-cinematography

https://www.avclub.com/the-truman-show-was-a-delusion-that-came-true-1826535781

https://www.thestudiotour.com/archive/movie/the-truman-show-1998

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2sff5q/the_climactic_wall_used_in_the_truman_show/

Whether or not the Earth is part of someones simulation or creation, exploring the concept of synchronicity can reveal peculiar things about the nature of reality.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Blazing+Saddles

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

Sunday, October 02, 2022

Don't Worry Darling had a very different VR ending

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a41441914/dont-worry-darling-ending-original-changes/

Don't_Worry_Darling might not appeal to people that like big budget VR or alternate reality themed movies.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/shelbyheinrich/dont-worry-darling-details

However, it certainly provides another interesting glimpse into the VR trap scenario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Worry_Darling#Plot

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Don't+Worry+Darling

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

Wednesday, September 09, 2020

the-best-vr-games-to-lose-yourself-in

https://www.vrfocus.com/2020/05/the-best-vr-games-to-lose-yourself-in

That is until there are VR games like Total Recall, The 13 Floor and The+Matrix movies, of course.

Thursday, January 08, 2015

Reality, VR and AR, etc.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1183686-7-weird-glitches-in-the-matrix
Essentially every religion implies that this world is part of some sort of cosmic construct.
http://www.infowars.com/will-vr-become-bigger-than-the-bible
Coincidence can usually be ignored or discarded by the less curious.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10451983/Do-we-live-in-the-Matrix-Scientists-believe-they-may-have-answered-the-question.html
However, those that really observe & question the nature of reality are more likely to perceive synchronicity.
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/dec/09-do-we-live-in-the-matrix
2, 3 & 4D are just the basic levels of this multi-dimensional cosmic reality.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2014/2-D-Hologram-20140826.html

http://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix2.html

http://news.discovery.com/space/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation-2-121216.htm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2216189/Do-live-Matrix-researchers-say-way-prove-do.html

http://io9.com/there-is-some-hope-that-we-arent-living-inside-a-comput-1605357671

Then within this cosmic construct, there is a real push to capture & transcend a persons consciousness.
http://io9.com/an-irreverent-guide-to-transhumanism-and-the-singularit-1678511853
Unfortunately, the end result might just be a digital copy of a persons mind & their physical data that's merged into an A.I. program.

A.R. vs. V.R.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/5078/20140406/augmented-reality-vs-virtual-reality-what-are-the-differences-and-similarities.htm

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/06/augmented-reality-vs-virtual-reality ,
http://www.nextgeninteractions.com/virtual-and-augmented-reality

http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/AI ,
http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Simulated_reality ,
http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Matrix_betas

http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/The_Source...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code#Plot ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkTrG-gpIzE ,
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/source-code-2011 ,
http://io9.com/5788795/duncan-jones-unravels-the-mysteries-behind-source-code

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/search?q=A.I.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Source+Code

Saturday, March 23, 2024

The 3 Body Problem VR headset

https://www.theverge.com/24108802/3-body-problem-vr-headset-review

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2024/3/22/24108591/3-body-problem-netflix-video-game-vr-virtual-reality-explained

3 Body Problem Series Creators on the Headset Game and Episode 3 | Netflix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeM3TDC7q9I

3 BODY PROBLEM Ending Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFAYQoEpgfY

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+3+Body+Problem

Friday, March 17, 2017

Buzz Aldrin-turns-to-VR-to-explain-how-we-can-get-to-Mars

https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/16/buzz-aldrin-turns-to-vr-to-explain-how-we-can-get-to-mars/
Cool stuff.

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

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