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pseydtonne · 3882 days ago · link ·
This is one of the best breakdowns I've ever read about what VR can and cannot yet do. This part: I've tried VR a couple times, but only once with something where I felt inside it enough to hit an uncanny valley moment. You get enough sensory data that realize you expect more. Chasing that dragon, man...My body was so confused by the lack of heat—no warm breath on the nape of my neck, not even a single heartbeat—that I felt it as a phantom sensation. I realized that I didn't feel like I was with another person so much as I was being "stroked" by the intangible ghost hand of some eerie automaton, a one-size-fits-all skeleton wearing intimacy's skin...