pgimeno wrote:That's not very clear in this case. There have been broken marriages, for example. I guess it depends on your own personal view of it, as it can be a lot of things. There's sex, role playing, marriages, sex, travelling, partying, dancing
I can imagine having virtual parties and sex can effect your relationship with friends and family in real life and you can find your self in a place where all your friends lives in a virtual world and this is the only place where you can be your self and enjoy social interactions with others.
It does actually happen to me sometimes when I get really immersed in a game, but usually those are linear games that comes to an end at which point I can feel empty and I wish I could go back and do other things, explore more, interact more with certain characters. So I can in a way relate to the idea a game is not a game for some people and when there is no end, the game is going forever like with Second Life, the boundaries can disappear.
pgimeno wrote:In SL it doesn't take serious money to start a business; it's about the quality of your work.
Fortunately or Unfortunately, social interactions in a game is not that interesting to me. But in case I can start a business without serious investment and I could just create art, clothing, sculptures for example, open a shop and sell my art to people in game and make real money maybe I give it a try. Creating real art, clothing, sculpture and selling it in real life in real shops is just too complicated for me. Last time I was considering I was stopped by a bunch of regulations, certificates to make sure the material is safe and import charges. In some cases import charges can be just as expensive as the material you order + certificates, shipping. Now you got me interested
Gunroar:Cannom() wrote:Talking about VR worlds, anyone heard of Sword Art Online (anime/light novel....
There they had a VR system that would connect to your brain, put you in a kind of comma or sleep, and make the whole virtual world more immersive...
Is that type of thing even possible? Or could it be possible in the near future?
I believe science is capable to do anything. If they manage to discover how the brain can generate dreams, providing there is no spiritual component to it, I am almost certain it is going to be possible to replicate it with devices that can put you in to a sleep like state and generate controlled dreams. Elon Musk already working on an interface to communicate with devices using your brain and to also receive information to your brain. That information can also be a dream I guess and who knows maybe at some point don't even need to be implanted, you can just stick it on to your head, set a wake up time and go. At which point, I could also imagine to distribute games and interactive movies this way.
Some conspiracy theorist believe that this is already happening and we are in a simulation and it could also explain reincarnation, memories from an other life, having natural talent, unexplainable drive for doing this, going places and a bunch of other things. My niece learned to read on her own when she was 4 just picked up a book and started to read, she called my mother her daughter, she looked confused when we told her she is the grand daughter and not the mother and she has a real talent for baking cakes. My grand mother passed away just 2 years before she was born. So, spiritual, simulation or scientific but something is happening beyond what we can sense for sure.
Dangers. 
, I think they make things like pain just a small shock or impact. You'll only be starving if you've haven't eaten in real life. It says if you eat in the game there's a risk of getting malnutrition since you trick your brain that you've eaten. 
