[entontoent]

This feels like I'm reading a comment written by anti-video game moms in the early 90s talking about the stupid unfashionable nerds and how they were ushering in a frightening new age of fewer values and greater social isolation.

I dunno, I'd love to have elf-like abilities to see systems of energy in the world around me that the human eye can't see, like wind patterns, and be able to zoom in on plants and animals in the garden and woods where I hike. I can't wait to see the skins people create for themselves, just walking around the world on holidays with fun appearances. And I'm excited for all the identity crises coming. Philosophy as physical reality.

But I guess this is as diverse of a human experience as y'all are willing to tolerate. :/

[xboxnolifes]

People already walk around with skins created for themselves. Clothing choices, hair styling, tanning, tattoos, piercings, colored contacts, fur suits, teeth sharpening, surgery for changing the shape of various parts of their body, and probably more that I'm not thinking of at the moment.

I don't think the people who would make AR avatars would exceed the groups of people who do the more uncommon forms of the above. A very niche thing.

[Affric]

That’s not what you see when you wear the glasses, you will see a symbol, a series of symbols, a facsimile of life that you will convince yourself is real.

It’s not elf like, it’s not magic, it’s not a sense, quite the opposite, it’s replacing sensing and processing with reading. The death of aptitude, prowess, and the human experience.

[lmm]

> replacing sensing and processing with reading. The death of aptitude, prowess, and the human experience.

Replacing something all animals do with something uniquely human, perhaps the most important thing that sets us apart, is the death of the human experience?

[BeetleB]

> That’s not what you see when you wear the glasses, you will see a symbol, a series of symbols, a facsimile of life that you will convince yourself is real.

aka the "Digital photos aren't real photos!" argument.

[apsurd]

it’s not wrong. it’s what is unique about the AR medium in particular. “heightening reality” is whats in discussion. we can talk about it, but its not the sane discussion as photos, or video games, or VR.

[gavinray]

  > a facsimile of life that you will convince yourself is real

This already describes our base experience of "reality". It's a predictive sensory hallucination.

[rpgbr]

90s’ moms were right all along!!

[apsurd]

I wouldn’t say that “what if the world was digital!” is some kind of apex creative insight.

More practically the people in power need to own real estate. The metaverse, VR, AR, you’re giving these builders way too much credit by connecting it to creative expression.

They want to own the land.

[sdevonoes]

Technically speaking, yeah, those things are cool. What’s not cool (anymore?) is that people like Zuck and other similar billionaires are behind such tech. I didn’t give a shit of the millionaires of the 80s/90s… but these billionaires of today, simply suck big time. So fuck them