Legendary programmer John Carmack, co-founder of id Software stone Facebook’s Fame and Oculus VR consulting technical director said it would be “positive” to build a virtual reality world where “people want to go back to their headsets.” Carmack compared virtual reality to the rise of the Internet and said: “Really, it will be like the Internet slowly taking off, like a frog slowly warming up in a pot of water.”
Carmack described virtual reality as a great alternative reality experience in an interview with Lex Friedman on Thursday’s podcast of the same name.
Carmack described the definition of a possible future as “dystopian” with the increasing prevalence of virtual reality. He said that “the whole point of virtual reality” is to create a superior digital alternative to physical reality.
There was a time when we were almost asked to think [a response to the question]: “What do you think of virtual reality?” and I argued that the inside of the headset should be better than the outside. This is the world you want and everyone thinks is a dystopia. For example, “Oh, will you forget about the outside world?”
I don’t understand this thought. … If you can make the world inside the headset better than the world outside, you will make the headset person’s life better. [and] wearable.
There are many things in the real world that we cannot do for everyone. Not everyone can have Richard Branson’s private island, but everyone can have a private VR island and have whatever they want on it. There are many competing products in the real world where VR could be better. [providing]. We can do a lot with these things that can be very rich.
So yeah, I think it’s going to be a positive thing, this world where people want to go back to their headphones, it can get better than that. [reality]. A person living in a small apartment can have a luxurious fortune in virtual reality. They can invite all their friends from all over the world and everyone can visit them without getting on a plane, meeting somewhere and dealing with all the other logistics issues.
Carmack expects the rise of virtual reality to be similar to the rise of the Internet, using the slow-boiling frog metaphor to describe what he predicts will accelerate the spread of virtual reality on an ever-widening spectrum. He predicts that future ubiquity of virtual reality will be the result of gradual development rather than a milestone:
It would be nice to gradually replace the net in which you are a frog in a slowly warming pot. survived [the rise of the Internet]I remember how shocked I was when I saw the address of the first website on a billboard and thought, “Hey, my computer world is messing with the real world.” It’s spreading somehow.”
However, you can turn around and ask, “Well, will the web come out?” when you say. This isn’t a big bang moment. Lots of little things that aren’t even relevant today.
Not because something is exponential. This is because we have hundreds of small sigmoid curves that overlap each other and they are constantly being added so you have an exponent at each point, but none of them are critical. . There are dozens and dozens of things.
Carmack made several references to the 1992 science fiction novel. snow accident – This is where Facebook got the inspiration for its new company name Meta. – where the internet of the future world becomes a virtual reality-based meta-data.
Facebook bought Oculus VR in 2014. Carmack noted that the company spends $10 billion a year developing its virtual reality and metaverse, and annual spending is expected to increase in the future.
Source: Breitbart
