Following up from our post ‘How Videos can now be Faked Easily And What It Means‘ and The Atlantic paper ‘The Era of Fake Video Begins‘ (or the reality ends), fake videos increasingly point towards an alternative augmented reality that will increasingly surround us – and we won’t quite need special glasses to be immersed in it.
The Atlantic paints a gloomy picture: “If the hype around VR eventually pans out, then, like the personal computer or social media, it will grow into a massive industry, intent on addicting consumers for the sake of its own profit, and possibly dominated by just one or two exceptionally powerful companies.”
“Designers of VR have described some consumers as having such strong emotional responses to a terrifying experience that they rip off those chunky goggles to escape. Studies have already shown how VR can be used to influence the behavior of users after they return to the physical world, making them either more or less inclined to altruistic behaviors.” Still, it is useful to understand this might be a possible future and respond to it.
Will be prefer to be immersed in a not so rosy reality or flee to a virtual reality that might be more perfect but make us lose sense of what’s real?
