VR & Lucid Dreaming

VR & Lucid Dreaming

The other night—most likely in anticipation of the Vive Pro 2 release—I dreamt that I was in VR. It was a really good dream. I was in total awe of the quality of the new VR gear I was wearing. The resolution was incredible and…
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Who Will Own The Metaverse?

Who Will Own The Metaverse?

Metaverse [mɛtəˌvɜːs] (noun) A shared, persistent, virtual, collective space—created by a convergence of virtual reality technologies and the Internet. From Meta (popular speech: beyond, higher, transcendental) and Universe (all that exists in time and space.) Since the beginning of the World Wide Web nearly thirty years…
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Virtuality & Emptiness

Virtuality & Emptiness

In Buddhism, the notion of suññatā, or, Emptiness, is seen as describing the fundamental reality of the world. It teaches that the world is anitya; impermanent, and simultaneously anatman: that there is no self. In other words, it teaches that there is nothing to grasp,…
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