Equestria and virtual reality

[Metatora 37]

I'd treat it as just another video game. So I'd only "play" it when the mood hits me, or if I have some time to burn. But as cool as the simulator would be, it wouldn't be real, so I doubt I'd get addicted to it. 

[~Master~ Button Mash 2,307]

Bah! Still will go there. Just like an anime called SAO then. My friends really like that anime.

 

By the way, stop wondering guys. Lets make it real. Seriously, a technology like that is very possible to make.

You can pretty much already escape to Equestria whenever you want via lucid dreaming, it just takes a bit of effort and discipline. I guess virtual reality would be a hassle-free option.

Edited January 11, 2013 by StratoPegasus

[Sky Warden 2,243]

You can pretty much already escape to Equestria whenver you want via lucid dreaming, it just takes a bit of effort and discipline.

Actually I don't like lucid dreaming very much. I like getting trance much more. It can brings me Equestria in a better way.

Well, both of them needs a good mind discipline though.

Edited January 11, 2013 by Sky Warden

[Dr. Vojislav Seselj 691]

I posted in a thread like this one... and then I took an arrow to the knee

 

I basically said:

 

We don't need a brony country, all we need is a VR machine from the Japs, and then go to Equestria. 

 

A good feature to that VR machine would be this:

 

When you turn it off, it stops the time in Equestria (only in the machine) and when you come back, you can pick up from where you left off.

 

What I'd do: Awesome adventures with Dashie, also be a "mentor" to Scoots.

 

Sadly, I don't think that will be a possibility in the next 10 years (at least for us lower middle-class).

[binggith 0]

hold on you said you can not go back to previous dreams you have had? thats odd mostly because im a lucid dreamer

i could teach you how to activly dream in other words "lucid dream" send a pm if you want help... or not if you already

know how to

Allow me to preface this post by saying, realistically, I doubt technology's ability to ever simulate reality to perfection.

However, for the sake of this conversation, reality and simulation are indistinguishable.
 

Let's assume a user is aware of the simulation.

This is comparable to many forms of entertainment, especially video games. It is escapism, and as I previously stated:

"In this scenario, as reality is indistinguishable from simulation, I would venture to propose the label of "fake" arbitrary. Anyone who already indulges in escapism (such as myself) is familiar with the merits of fiction, regardless of its apparent fraudulence."

I feel no such emptiness while playing games, watching movies, or anything of that nature.

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Let's assume a user is unaware of the simulation.

This likens to a dream. Upon waking, a user realizes that none of his experiences were real. While I admit that great dreams depress me, it is only because I cannot return to them. I love dreams (they are as close as I can come to virtual reality), and given the chance to inhabit them perpetually (and with direct control, too!), I would take advantage of the opportunity immediately.

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As to your question, since I frequently partake in escapism and immensely relish dreams, yes, I would choose to reject reality in favor of a superior alternative.

[Mand'alor Dash 2,224]

This reminds me of a particular plot thread in Fallout: Equestria.

 

 

Namely, where Velvet Remedy becomes obsessed with the Fluttershy orb to the point that she briefly acts out a delusion of being Fluttershy.

 

 

There's absolutely nothing wrong with a bit of escapism, but I probably wouldn't spend any longer in an Equestrian VR than I would in most video games. Wouldn't want it to eff with my head.

[pie1337 2]

just get an oculus rift, razer hydra and microphone and just make equestria with ai. simple way to make life 20% cooler. i can't make it though. *grabs oculus rift, razer hydra and microphone* game on, equestria!

[Gaullin Everfree 64]

We'd forget it was VR and it would simply melt into reality, for all we know we might all be using some sort of virtual reality multi-player machine but we've used it for so long that our reality is stuck within the one we're in now.

 

Anyway i'd train to be the best flyer out there to the point where i would be able surpass the speed of light and put rainbow dash to shame.

[pie1337 2]

We'd forget it was VR and it would simply melt into reality, for all we know we might all be using some sort of virtual reality multi-player machine but we've used it for so long that our reality is stuck within the one we're in now.

 

Anyway i'd train to be the best flyer out there to the point where i would be able surpass the speed of light and put rainbow dash to shame.

well, it'd be worth a try. because I am desperate. we might know we are in vr, but I don't care . I would still do it. it would still be fun. especially with the virtuix omni

[Gaullin Everfree 64]

well try this then it actually works

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/135UFEsaCEgWuQ3w0-KMb_f8BEFac26bPrJx2HCpeTrA/edit?pli=1#

 

just try not to fall asleep like i did the first 4 times cause otherwise that will suck massively.

[pie1337 2]

well try this then it actually works

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/135UFEsaCEgWuQ3w0-KMb_f8BEFac26bPrJx2HCpeTrA/edit?pli=1#

 

just try not to fall asleep like i did the first 4 times cause otherwise that will suck massively.

no, you don't understand. I don't want to be a pony, I want to live in equestria. so this is not what I am looking for. thanks for your help, though

[Throwaway19573639385 764]

I'd totally move into my virtual reality world, if I had the function to interact with friends in the same device, like a kind of multiplayer one could say. 

 

To give more thought on reality vs virtual reality:

 

Who says this isn't a virtual reality? Can you really prove this reality is real? It might be another fictional world, or even a figment of someone's imagination. Perhaps we're just a small universe existing for just a few seconds in the palms of even bigger, more powerful beings. Nobody knows.

 

What we do know is that what we experience and feel is something we consider "real". In other words, it is -our- reality, no matter whether it's fake or not, our reality ends at what we call death, no matter how sudden. In which case I want to question the others. Why do you choose this unfulfilling reality above a perfect virtual reality that feels as real as ours, often even being more real than ours. For the lucid dreamers, you must know where I'm coming from. Would you stay in this world if you had the opportunity to lucid dream forever and together with your friends, family and/or others? I'm guessing not really. Why make a division between fiction and non-fiction when both can become an equal reality? Fiction even being the better alternative? What reasons do you have that hold you back from choosing an even more perfect world? Are you afraid of playing god or simply scared by your infinite imagination? Why choose life over life HD?

 

I would create infinite amounts of scenarios, there literally is no end to creativity. Whenever you're out of ideas, you just hop on to the internet and find more. 

 

New thought:

Career opportunity

I imagine one could earn a living constructing virtual scenarios for people to experience. That would be interesting.

 

Unless the whole virtual reality thing goes mainstream I think scenarios would become free, similar to mods in games. We'd even have sites similar to ModDB and the Nexus. We'd have sites dividing between premium and free users, earning their money by providing people with meaningless prestige and functions.

 

If this thing goes mainstream however, businesses will chip in. We'll be able to buy scenarios made by professionals (not that being a professional means that you're better than someone who does things for free). If things get worse we might even have to pay for the time we can be in virtual reality, or pay for more "functions" so to speak. Good thing pirating will still exist in some way or another. That and there'll be a lot of businesses trying to make a quick buck by selling absolute garbage.

 

Though there'll be honest and good scenario developers out there, ones that put effort into making them. Those people are the people who deserve my money. They are the people who do honest and exhausting work, work I'd never be able to even start with. Creating products that are worth your time and money. I'd love to donate money to those people.

[Dark Horn 430]

I'D TOTALLY MOVE IN MY VIRTUAL WORLD FOREVER.

 

No, I'd still have to pay the bills, and eat lunch, and all those other boring, humdrum things.

 

But I'd use it addictively like my computer, as in spending multiple hours a day on it.

[pie1337 2]

I'd totally move into my virtual reality world, if I had the function to interact with friends in the same device, like a kind of multiplayer one could say. 

 

To give more thought on reality vs virtual reality:

 

Who says this isn't a virtual reality? Can you really prove this reality is real? It might be another fictional world, or even a figment of someone's imagination. Perhaps we're just a small universe existing for just a few seconds in the palms of even bigger, more powerful beings. Nobody knows.

 

What we do know is that what we experience and feel is something we consider "real". In other words, it is -our- reality, no matter whether it's fake or not, our reality ends at what we call death, no matter how sudden. In which case I want to question the others. Why do you choose this unfulfilling reality above a perfect virtual reality that feels as real as ours, often even being more real than ours. For the lucid dreamers, you must know where I'm coming from. Would you stay in this world if you had the opportunity to lucid dream forever and together with your friends, family and/or others? I'm guessing not really. Why make a division between fiction and non-fiction when both can become an equal reality? Fiction even being the better alternative? What reasons do you have that hold you back from choosing an even more perfect world? Are you afraid of playing god or simply scared by your infinite imagination? Why choose life over life HD?

 

I would create infinite amounts of scenarios, there literally is no end to creativity. Whenever you're out of ideas, you just hop on to the internet and find more. 

 

 

Unless the whole virtual reality thing goes mainstream I think scenarios would become free, similar to mods in games. We'd even have sites similar to ModDB and the Nexus. We'd have sites dividing between premium and free users, earning their money by providing people with meaningless prestige and functions.

 

If this thing goes mainstream however, businesses will chip in. We'll be able to buy scenarios made by professionals (not that being a professional means that you're better than someone who does things for free). If things get worse we might even have to pay for the time we can be in virtual reality, or pay for more "functions" so to speak. Good thing pirating will still exist in some way or another. That and there'll be a lot of businesses trying to make a quick buck by selling absolute garbage.

 

Though there'll be honest and good scenario developers out there, ones that put effort into making them. Those people are the people who deserve my money. They are the people who do honest and exhausting work, work I'd never be able to even start with. Creating products that are worth your time and money. I'd love to donate money to those people.

thats the spirit! we need to do what i suggested. do all of that today! just add a multiplayer function to the thing, then we could meet ocs

actually, a multiplayer function is genius! we could meet up with friends, as OCs. awesome. if only somebody made my idea a reality.

C'mon. You know you want to live in equestria. Do what I suggested to make many people happy. I can't do it though, so I am completely relying on somebody else

[Fergus Mo 21]

I would stay 5ever, but not sure which world I would enter. TF2, Minecraft, or Equestria?

 

If I entered the world of TF2 I would dominate everyone with my skillz 24/7 but after a while fighting would get boring. If I stayed in MC SSP then I would build/fight to my heart's desire but be forever alone. If I'm on Minecraft SMP, I'll be able to socialize and collab, but I'm afraid of getting griefed...and I'm not too fond of the MC community.

 

However, whether or not I enter Equestria depends on just what the world is like. Is it really as perfect as portrayed? What if Celestia was a tyrant influencing all the ponies with her mind magic (so they could be happy)? In the other end of the spectrum, if Equestria was similar to today's Earth then there would be no point in going there (except magic, flight, cutie marks, etc. but I'm sure the novelty will wear off after a while).

 

Hmm. Maybe I'm overthinking this. I definitely would want to escape into another reality, but which one??

[Diamond* 531]

I think I would move in it forever.

 

Since its a VIRTUAL REALITY, I don't really even know if I should live there forever or not,

Better like visit it daily..

[Umbral Noir 1,556]

 

 

 

 

Virtual Reality Equestria you say? I'll see you guys in a couple of years then!

This would be amazing! There's so much in Equestria I'd love to do!

[MichaelxXxTrixie 433]

I'd more than likely use it every week, probably on a Friday night. You see I'd very well know that the real world needs me, and it'd be just sad to fall back into a false existence because real-life is too rough. I'd love to go to Equestria and I'd probably keep my human form because I don't want to be a pony. 

 

I'd love to meet random ponies and talk to some of the Mane Six. It'd be a nice escape on a Friday night but it's just a man-made machine, and it's not worth bailing on this world just too live in a false existence that could malfunction.

[SCS 7,537]

I voted every day. I would not allow my virtual reality experiences to take the place of everyday reality, but it would be an excellent form of entertainment that I would engage in on a daily basis. 

 

However, this does bring up an interesting question: what is reality? We call the world we live in reality. But, the only reason we call it that is because that is what we experience on a daily basis. If someone so chose, they could discard this reality, and take on a new one: more specifically, a virtual reality. If they lived in that every day, every night, that could become their new reality, and, if their body were able to be kept alive, life on earth could turn into nothing more than a distant dream replaced by the new reality. This is because it does not matter whether or not something has an existence grounded in physicality, or in your dreams, or in a virtual world - if you experience it fully with all of your physical senses, then it is just as real as everyday waking life. 

 

I, personally, would not want to discard this reality to step into a virtual one. I would choose to experience both, in balance.

[Scootalove 10,689]

I would use it every day, and try to keep both the real world and Equestria in a good balance. So, it's better for me to have fun in both worlds if I can.

[Winona the Dog 1,984]

I wouldn't mind the prospect of making a virtual world that resembles Equestria but the very idea of it sounds kind of freaky. I mean being in a virtual limbo while your physical body lays helpless on real earth.Imagine what would happen if something terrible happened like a natural disaster or something.

[Alia 158]

Well, I spent more than 2,000 hours in my most favorite game-Left 4 Dead (both 1 and 2)- it’s almost 3 months of constant gaming. And that’s only for L4D, nopony knows how much time I spent in games in overall. Months, maybe years. Sometimes I regret that I spend so much time on games. But on the other hoof, I’ve met some nice people because of that. They live in different countries, I won’t ever met ’em without games. It also gave me tons of positive emotions, urged me to learn foreign languages and even to change my own mindset. Let’s speak frankly- we spend plenty of time on some things, many of ’em ain’t necessary, but positive nevertheless.

 

Perhaps, the positive moments sway the balance in their favor. But I would prefer not only to live in a virtual world, but to create it by myself. Of course it wouldn’t be like y’all imagine, but one should start from somethin’ simple. It was not long ago, when even telephony seemed fantastic, now we can pass a voice, photos, video via wires or even without them. The high technologies made (and still making) our lives more interesting, various, and giving us more and more opportunities. Of course, there is a danger that somepony would spend too much time in virtual world, instead of doing something more constructive- like working, learning, share time with a family, etc. But the problem is not in virtual world.

 

For example, many people use social networks out of measure, but that doesn’t mean social networks make our life worse. They doesn’t. The problem is lying in some people, who just use them too much. And so, my answer is- yes, I’d like to spend in virtual Equestria as much time as I can. And if it doesn’t exist yet, somepony must create it.

[Rainbow S.D. 546]

Without the nerves thing, can't we do this with Oculus Rift and the Virtuix Omni?

[Bastion 414]

Sadly, I fear a lot of bronies would start to drop, from not sustaining themselves, lets face it, if this was made there would be some very obsessive bronies using it, there is also the risk off psychological issues, getting trouble from defining what is reality and what is not.

I'd rather it be the real deal or not at all, if its the real deal, you can go between one or the other and still be able to keep yourself healthy, and if not at all, at least there will not be losing people from life for a fake world they plug into.

[Alia 158]

Without the nerves thing, can't we do this with Oculus Rift and the Virtuix Omni?

Right. There is already a

, but it has not best concept; if we add to construction a system of powerful fans and semi-controlled (by computer) gyroscope, we will be able not only to fly like a pegasus, but perform breathtaking aerobatics too.

 

Or how about another concept- you’re sitting at the table in special costume and Oculus Rift, drink a (real) tea, and see your friends at that table (in the shapes of ponies, of course.) You can talk together, play some games like chess, view some photos, or watch a movie. Maybe even do some simple physical interactions, like brohoof, via bot. And your friends may be even on opposite side of this planet. For first we had only phone, after- text messaging, and after- visual communication. Maybe in nearest future we will have something even more, who knows.

 

 

 

 

getting trouble from defining what is reality and what is not.

I doubt it will happen, at least in most cases, but even if it will maybe it’s good? After all, in Equestria nopony kills anypony else. Maybe a gamer just learned to be more well-wishing, more polite, more happy from his “life” in virtual Equestria and will stay the same in real life.