My Twitter account is now updated with photos from two recent experiences: In virtual reality, at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality conference in May, and doing the pillbox hike in Kailua, Hawaii, during a short visit back home in June. I'm fortunate to love both virtual and actual reality, but over the next few decades, the two are going to be in more active competition than they've ever been before. Or as Palmer Luckey put it at SVVR:
"This is one of those crazy man topics".. but "it's going to be impossible to give everyone everything they want", such as expensive consumer items. With VR, however, you can do that. It's easy for us to say, living in the great state of California, that VR is not as good as the real world, but a lot of people in the world don't have as good an experience in real life as we do here.
Then again, the Kailua photo of the pillbox also has its own virtual reality going on:
Thanks to cropping, you can't see that my feet are actually just 2 feet off the ground. So I've avatarized myself to be the rock-climbing badass I totally not am in, like, you know, real life.
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