Virtual Life
This article is for everyone to understand how Irreni Society interacts with virtual life.
First remember that each MGO is sovereign and dictates the policy for virtual life for its members. However, Irreni management needs capabilities to help with its mandate to improve MGO societies by managing membership.
The primary device that Irreni management uses is the fancy pants idea; the device of loving life (DOLL). The DOLL is any computing device such as a laptop or smart-phone that has a sweet of Irreni applications. Further research on the DOLL is provided elsewhere.
The secondary device that Irreni management uses is another fancy pants idea; the virtual Earth, reality you (VERY).
The VERY is an exact duplicate of Earth in every way with no embellishments. What we see on Earth is what we see in the VERY. Simulation like the VERY is always incomplete so the VERY is just an approximation missing information. However, the VERY is mandated to only provide environment found on Earth.
The VERY in some respects is the same as a holodeck on Star Trek, “Voyager”. The biggest difference is that it is not programmable. The VERY is a static representation of Earth in real-time. Otherwise the holodeck notion applies.
One enters the VERY by entering a room. That room can be as simple as having one wall projecting the VERY or it could be any entire room projecting a 360 degree view on all walls, ceiling and floor.
For this article assume the room containing the VERY projections is similar to a living room for single-family home, say 10ft x 10ft. There is a couch in the middle of the living room, a couple of single chairs, and perhaps a desk. The VERY starts simulation by showing the perspective of that room itself. Then one navigates anywhere on Earth by using various mechanisms, including teleporting.
There will be restrictions about where one is allowed to go in the VERY just as there in reality Earth today. Research on further details of the VERY can be found elsewhere.
Most of the addictions and afflictions of virtual reality and social media today are not found in the VERY. For example, you can’t be anonymous. How you are dressed in in the verydeck is how you appear. Only things on Earth exist in the VERY and so there are none of the CGI visual addiction stimulations. The most “addicting” aspect of the VERY is much larger access to people, places and things.
Work environments can be set up such that people are in real-time in space on virtual Earth and are able to talk and meet in almost identical fashion as reality, by walking around.
The VERY is key to Irreni management. The VERY provides the world AI with the best information for monitoring and evaluating human relationships. These evaulations then inform Irreni recommendations for continuously improving MGO life by changing members based upon character fit.
MGO virtual life relies on the VERY and not web browsers and the Internet as we know it today. Social media and virtual reality today is inducing mental health problems. However, we don’t want to limit people’s access to each other or information. The VERY gives access to people. The MGO and world AIs give access to data.
The VERY has many other positive contributions. For example, working “remote” is no longer “remote”. People are able to work in the exact same location as they would in real Earth.
The VERY also has some obvious limitations. One shouldn’t have to build something in the real world just to have a place to congregate in the VERY. The VERY concept then also includes allowing copies with their own rules. This concept is similar to the movie, “The Matrix”, where reality is mostly approximated.
The VERY prohibits “jacking in”. Holodecks are required, where we call them verydecks. Verydecks are required for many reasons. One key one is that verydecks are expensive and shared resources. They provide familiar environments for people to congregate within the MGO. If the Verydeck can hold thirty people then all the MGO can participate in a VERY experience.
One can also call up an audio-only version of the verydeck anywhere given certain protocols are enforced. One could think of this as a “party-line” in the old days of wired phones.
So will web browsers exist in the future? Certainly the software will. However, I suspect that cold network browsing will be the favored protocol by most MGOs due to all the afflictions of social media today. Again, MGOs are sovereign and decide to use the hot network, aka Internet, versus cold network of curated, shaped information to the MGOs specifications.
You’ll be able to be tourist, take vacations, and be lost in a crowd in a VERY the same as on Earth today.
It is important for the future of space-life to establish the VERY. Once we start venturing into space on the Moon or Mars then we will do so by establishing MGOs. These MGOs will use the VERY to experience Earth.
