When you play your favorite MMORPG, do you look and wish you it could ever be real? Wouldn't it be wonderful to live 2 different lives? There will be so much possibilities that you can think of. The idea of Virtual Reality now comes to hand with many scientists.

The mind is a wonderous thing. It enables you to "feel" everything around you. It allows freedom of your body to learn. If you touch fire, it burns, it hurts, your mind tells you to pull away. Let's think about it differently - You touch fire, it burns, it's SUPPOSED to hurt, your mind tells you it doesn't hurt so you don't feel anything. The ability to alter our mind's thoughts are what scientists are working on now. To be able to make your mind BELIEVE it is in a different situation than it is right now is what makes the word Virtual Reality so special.

So you're thinking: What has all this got to do with MMORPGs? Well for one thing, in Virtual Reality, it is as what it says - based on reality in a different form or universe. What is reality? Reality is you, the world, and other "you's"(people and animals). Thus we can say that in Virtual Reality, you would be viewing a different world in a first-person-view. MMORPGs are based on a one-person-view, thus it is Virtual Reality in itself.

But when we think of the many wondrous possibilities of Virtual Reality, we think abouts its cons too. When you get hit or stabbed in Virtual Reality, your mind tells you that this hurts, and you feel pain. When you are stabbed to DEATH in Virtual Reality, your mind tells you that you are supposed to be dead. But you're not. What happens? In theory, you would be brain-dead. Your mind just stops working because it thinks it is dead, it thinks YOU are dead.

When we look at the future of MMORPGs, we think Virtual Reality. We dream about being able to lead another life where you are the boss and control everything. In real life, you are influenced by everyone else. In Virtual Reality, you get to choose your paths and if you think something is wrong, you change it. So is this considered Virtual Reality if you can change your life?

The questions are endless, but I'll stop at this point and leave most of you thinking about what the world can bring us - both good and bad.

 

 

 

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Wow... that was inspiring...

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If what you say is true and scientists are actually trying to do this real "virtual reality"... you trying to say that it could be like those holodecks in star trek... but instead of a deck.. its in your mind.. thats where you can obviously see where some problems will occur if they do by chance learn a way to make the "virtual" reality.

It would be the Biggest Addiction to the worst since Cocaine and Heroine. *sniff*

yes it would be sooo amazing if i could play my favorite MMORPG... and make it reality. but then you see people wont leave it..... they will literaly starve to death...
If your mind thinks its eating... .. no i dont think so. doesnt work that way.
there wont be the REAL sense ure thinking of. because its to much for the body to handle.. living 1 life is hard enough to control. but your saying.. Give us a chance to live 2? 3? . 4? as many as we want... When it gets to that point. what one would you know is real.
People living one life ALREADY and they belive their god damn in Dungeons and dragons... Like c'mon... you might aswell give children .. Or Adults Crack.
At least when u get off that.. you'll know whats real.

 

 

 

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Virtual reality would be somethin reall cool but with a few downsides. You couldn't die in the game or atleast feel it to make your mind think it's dead. I think it would just be really cool to like control your character by your body movements / fight using your movements. It would definetely add more life to the game.

Thought it would have many bugs / fixes to work out before it would be released.

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sounds like something outta .hack//, the whole idea is very appealing, but i think if it went that far people would start to lose their lives.....not good

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Hmm...that would be pretty cool...and i think most likely will happen sometime in the future. I dont know if i'll have that gaming passion still by that time...but i bet it will be a major fad in the future. Haha and yea it does sound kinda like dot hack.

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It'll be cool to have virtual reality. I always thought that was a cool concept in the .dot hack saga. If that was possible, I wouldn't mind wasting my life on it every free chance I would get Games being virtual reality will truly be a far off next generation ownage.

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I agree and in addition, don't you feel something simmiliar, maybe even better than virtual reality when you have one of those dreams which you understand that you're dreaming and or you feel the touch, pain there etc. all the emotions, but for it, this effect does not last long, I believe in we could have something like a dream machine, it could be something like our second live ? because as i understan virtual reality is made by computer ? when dreaming we see real stuff. :S

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Have you ever seen the movie "Lawnmower Man"? The beginning shows people using a system just like this. There were connectors at the temples of your head that fed all the "virtual reality" data into your brain so everything was "real". All the touching, pain, etc, as well as the death, were expressed by your actual body (or more so in the brain since even when those things happen in real life it all happens in the brain).

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It only depends on your point of view of what is REAL, my friend. Shame the huge majority of people only considered that after Matrix came out.

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