Virtual reality

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    Why Enceladus’ Ice Is Part of the Climate Change Conversation

    To imagine the absence of the Arctic and Antarctica produces something like the opposite of sublime, a pang of emptiness and a longing to appreciate that terrain in person before it passes.Image by NASA / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Beneath the icy surface of Saturn’s sixth-largest […]
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    The Self Is Other People

    “We’re constantly bouncing off other people and looking at other people as a mirror of us. Our very sense of who we are is intertwined with what we see when we see other people look at us.”Photograph by Saly Noémi / Fortepan / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now […]
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    The Antidote to “Black Mirror” Virtual Reality

    We will take VR far, in creative and unanticipated ways, but it will also be mundane, contrary to the bleak alarm peddled by Black Mirror.Image courtesy Netflix / YouTube Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Both of Black Mirror’s virtual-reality episodes, “USS Callister” this season and “Playtest” in last […]
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    Virtual Reality Poses the Same Riddles as the Cosmic Multiverse

    Alt-realities, whether cosmic or VR, would undermine the laws of physics.
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    These Tricks Make Virtual Reality Feel Real

    Realistic digital spaces need delusions as much as they need detail.