He said BCIs will lead to gaming experiences far better than a player could get through their "meat peripherals" — as in, their eyes and ears.
"You're used to experiencing the world through eyes," Newell said, "but eyes were created by this low-cost bidder that didn't care about failure rates and RMAs, and if it got broken there was no way to repair anything effectively, which totally makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, but is not at all reflective of consumer preferences.
"So the visual experience, the visual fidelity we'll be able to create — the real world will stop being the metric that we apply to the best possible visual fidelity.
"The real world will seem flat, colourless, blurry compared to the experiences you'll be able to create in people's brains.
"Where it gets weird is when who you are becomes editable through a BCI," Newell said.
At the moment, people accept their feelings are just how they feel — but Newell says BCIs will soon allow the editing of these feelings digitally, which could be as easy as using an app.
"One of the early applications I expect we'll see is improved sleep — sleep will become an app that you run where you say, 'Oh, I need this much sleep, I need this much REM,'" he said.
Another benefit could be the reduction or total removal of unwanted feelings or conditions from the brain, for therapeutic reasons.
theglaze wrote on Jan 25, 2021, 17:34:
I've had some pretty intense moments in Half-Life:Alyx with VR... not sure if I am onboard with experiencing those alien encounters in my brain.
PTSD will be a thing
El Pit wrote on Jan 26, 2021, 05:35:
Gabe, just do it.
Man, the illegal software market for this will be huge! How much will the "XXX Date with Marilyn Monroe and Anne Hathaway" software cost?
Kxmode wrote on Jan 26, 2021, 02:23:jdreyer wrote on Jan 25, 2021, 14:00:Cutter wrote on Jan 25, 2021, 12:53:"The real world will seem flat, colourless, blurry compared to the experiences you'll be able to create in people's brains.
Sounds like the most addictive drug ever. Hard pass.
I want the blue pill. Ignorance is bliss.
That steak is juicy and delicious.
VaranDragon wrote on Jan 26, 2021, 08:52:Well, I do. The question is should I be happy or sad about it?
You guys do realize that most of us will probably be dead of old age (or Corona 22) by the time any of this is anywhere even close to the tech level that Newell is talking about?
Razumen wrote on Jan 25, 2021, 19:12:Whichever it is, I'm going to be getting one at some point.
Brain-Computer interfaces mean the computer is interpreting signals from your brain, not sending signals to it. There's about ZERO chance of you going into a coma or something else ridiculous from it. It's Computer-Brain interfaces that you guys are thinking about which might prove to be more problematic depending on how invasive they are and how they function.
WannaLogAlready wrote on Jan 25, 2021, 14:12:
Bill Gates, doctorate or none, has achieved so much.
He has dedicated years of his life to mankind welfare, and the poorest and more needful people, indeed.
Of course he has done wrong things and is not perfect, he is human, but has shown admirable traits.
Today the less capable, uninformed masses asume that disrespectful, jaded posture that no one is good enough.
No one meets their *high* standards.
All achievements are tainted, so if anyone seems to do good, it is with an ulterior motive (greed, power grabbing, harm groups, etc).
To them, Gabe Newell who has brought so many excellent possibilities to gamers, is just an ignorant, despicable money seeking man, you name it.
If all are as mediocre as themselves, they feel less inconsequential.
I think they don't respect themselves, and tend to think that no one deserves better.
And, not surprisingly, they support people that show that ugly demeaning disposition.
jdreyer wrote on Jan 25, 2021, 14:00:Cutter wrote on Jan 25, 2021, 12:53:"The real world will seem flat, colourless, blurry compared to the experiences you'll be able to create in people's brains.
Sounds like the most addictive drug ever. Hard pass.
I want the blue pill. Ignorance is bliss.
Cutter wrote on Jan 25, 2021, 12:53:I can imagine the crustaceans of the past said much the same thing about books, then TV and movies, and later videogames. XD"The real world will seem flat, colourless, blurry compared to the experiences you'll be able to create in people's brains.
Sounds like the most addictive drug ever. Hard pass.
Razumen wrote on Jan 25, 2021, 19:12:
Brain-Computer interfaces mean the computer is interpreting signals from your brain, not sending signals to it. There's about ZERO chance of you going into a coma or something else ridiculous from it. It's Computer-Brain interfaces that you guys are thinking about which might prove to be more problematic depending on how invasive they are and how they function.
BurntSoul wrote on Jan 25, 2021, 15:41:
As long as they can kill the majority of the, 'Total Recall' type bugs, I'm in.
Take my money.
The system is 100% bug free.
Now get your ass to Mars.
...get your ass to Mars.
...get your ass to Mars.
theglaze wrote on Jan 25, 2021, 17:34:It could also be good therapy.
I've had some pretty intense moments in Half-Life:Alyx with VR... not sure if I am onboard with experiencing those alien encounters in my brain.
PTSD will be a thing