Is There a Future for Virtural Reality?

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The technology's pretty primitive for now. But i always say, don't look at where it is right now. Look at where it's going. There's gong to be a glasss version of this eventually. It's going to be super high quality. They'll figure out how to avoid the motion sickness, you dont get sick a. In 20 or 30 years, these things are going to be ubiquitous. We're goingto be spending a sometime in virtural reality, but also in what they call augmented reality. Maybe it'll recognize people for you and walk into a room, and it'll say, atom above your a abone your head to to help me me recognize you

We spend more time in digital, virtual spaces than ever. But are those places really real? If they are, does that mean we could be living in virtual reality right now? Or does it even make sense to ask such a question? Philosopher David Chalmers joins Adam to talk about consciousness, the nature of reality, and the limits of digital technology. Pick up David's latest book, Reality+, at http://factuallypod.com/books. Support Adam at http://patreon.com/adamconover Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.