VR has already impacted so many areas of modern life, and is poised to influence so much more in the coming years. Right now, I’m most excited about the ways it’s causing us to reflect on the very notion of reality. Bear with me—this isn’t half-baked rambling.
What is Reality?
VR has already begun to help us analyze the ways we construct our own realities. More and more, it’s also illuminating the ways we have the power to construct new ones.
Despite a hefty name, the idea of a “reality tunnel” is actually pretty simple. Each of us has lived a unique life with unique experiences, and our minds have crafted an understanding of “reality” around these subjective experiences. The sum of these experiences is our reality tunnel, our individual expression (and perception) of “the world as we know it.” Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins’s keynote at Unity’s Vision Summit does an excellent job revealing the many ways that reality is created in the mind:
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Source: VR Scout