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Such as the upcoming Oculus Rift, cyber-esque goggles that have newest technology in them to completely immerse the consumer in it. The chosen title has a kinda bad aftertaste for me, creating a rift by using the senses of our eyes. A rift for what? A rift for an artificial reality "ontop" of this reality we live here. I say this because I know how immersed one can get by simply sitting infront of a screen, with enough reality around it. But will that be all or what potentially could let this rift in into the human system? I have no complete knowlege about it yet. Dont take this lightly like products from the last years stating that this is or will be the next VR (virtual reality) thing. No, Oculus Rift has already criques that it messes around with the sense of gravity the brain allows us to feel. For example: Using the OR-device for more than a certain amount of time recommended by the developers lead to falling-over feeling when taking it off. You remember when you were spinning into one direction and your kinestetic consciousness that lets you sit "perfectly" in your body gets flung into one direction and you feel you fall and then actually fell, even tho there was no gravitational pulling from the outside, rather all coming from inside you? Similar to it. When testers put on the device they immediatelly felt that they were drawn backwards, something was drawing their head backwards like it and you was falling back. This then somehow stabilized itself until the above mentioned next phaenomenon appeared when taking it off. The immersion factor itself is apparently so complete like nothing there was before. Shockingly complete as some people mentioned. The field of application is stated to be broad: From threatment to gaming. Everything inbetween one could think of. But it will definitelly go live and available for consumers somewhere 2014/15. Any ideas or thoughts how this could affect people? Affect the planet? And most importantly affect consciousness in general? I am aware that no technical creation will ever go live and hit masses of human consciousness by some higher form allowing it. So I do not want to create any form of end-game scenario, which would be just exaggerated (like with everything before). Curious, feel free to let us know what you think