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Virtual Reality: Is Technology Alone Enough To Fully Enter A New World?
Recently, a new neural rendering technology called zip-NeRF provided this amazingly realistic video:
We are looking at the future of VR, YouTube & Google Street View.
— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) April 14, 2023
This is zip-NeRF, a 3D neural rendering tech rapidly approaching the quality of a real, high-res drone flight video. Think of NeRF as transporting reality into simulation. Metaverse will finally work this time. pic.twitter.com/MI6jyygz17
The question that science fiction fans ask is: Yes, it is hyper-realistic. But is the technology, the resolution and the frame rate, etc. really enough to make it really real?
In Philip K. Dick's 1965 novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, colonists were able to escape their grim reality by fully entering into the pretend world of Perky Pat, using their Perky Pat micro-world. But the layout itself wasn't enough; they needed Can-D to fully achieve "translation" into the imaginary world.
He had, by manufacturing the Perky Pat layouts and raising and distributing the lichen-base for the final packaged product Can-D, made life bearable for over one million unwilling expatriates from Terra...I mean, somebody has to; they’ve got to have it. Otherwise what good are the Perky Pat layouts to them?
DIck uses the same idea in his 1969 novel Galactic Pot-Healer. A fake window in an interior apartment room is accompanied by an encephalic gadget that causes people who look "out" the fake window to believe that it is real.
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