One Thing About Virtual Reality That Everyone Should Remember
Bloomberg via Getty Images You might think it's annoying when people stare at their smartphones, but just wait until they have screens strapped to their faces. If Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg is to be believed -- and hey, he's been right about this stuff before -- virtual reality may be the next major evolution in consumer technology. But the most startling and insightful bit within the article comes neither from Zuckerberg nor Oculus lead Palmer Luckey: It comes from Jaron Lanier, a dinosaur at 55 years old compared to the mavericks celebrated in today's Silicon Valley. Lanier, author of books like You Are Not a Gadget and Who Owns the Future?, helped pioneer virtual reality as a concept in the 1980s. His quote in the Vanity Fair piece is a masterstroke of sensible forward-thinking: The most amazing moment of virtual reality is when you leave it, not when you’re in it.. You have really never seen reality until you’ve just come out of virtual reality.
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