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VR is as good as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence

VR is as good as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence

As we inched nearer, I worried about infringing upon the other participants’ personal space. Then I remembered that oceans and thousands of miles separated me from them—and wasn’t ditching the notion of personal space the whole point? So I tried to settle into the intimacy. “What happens in VR is that sense of completely forgetting […]

The metaverse is just a new word for an old idea

I have spent a lot of my career, both in Silicon Valley and beyond, insisting that all our technologies have histories and even pre-histories, and that far from being neat and tidy, those stories are in fact messy, contested, and conflicted, with competing narrators and meanings.  The metaverse, which graduated from a niche term to […]