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From: JS5DWCPW@miamiu.bitnet
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: Consumer Markets for VR
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Date: 11 Dec 90 07:22:07 GMT
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I am writing a novel (working title: _Thorn's Vision_) that deals with
another possibility of VR. Early LSD studies pointed toward possibilities
of a new type of psycho-therapy, guiding the patient through a series of
archetypal experiences, such as the death/rebirth imagery. Roger Zelazny
then wrote a story called the Dreammaster or something like that in which
a psychiatrist, by means of a neural interface, enters and controls the
patients "dreams" during a chemical-induced hypnotic trance.
 
I think that VR may or may not, as it gets more "real" seeming, have such
applications. We are already getting reports of "VR sickness" from the
disorientation of simulators, so we may assume that the mind is open
to such manipulations.
This is actually only a sideline to the main flow of the novel; a near-future
political thriller.
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