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To be honest that kind of scares me. What will happen when VR is commonplace and we are continually using it to escape reality.

Not to say we don't do that already, but the gradual degradation of reality is truly quite interesting.

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Hopefully the goggles will become comfortable and we ll be able to take them off easily. We ll get used to the escape. It will become as commonplace and unremarkable as headphones

You already escaped reality. Your entire life is a video game, in which you erased your memory and went back to live in early twenty-first century earth, the peak of humanity's uncertainty about the future, near the end of scarcity. When you "die," you will wake up on the orbital platform where you were born six hundred years ago. You've already played this game four times.

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