Beyond Virtual Reality: Synthetic Reality And Our Co-Created Futures
Later this century, virtual environments may become experienced comprehensively as new versions of reality, as we have explored in past articles in Forbes and HuffPost. The only way you will know they are virtual (i.e. not the “default world”) is that you will know they are so, similar to how dreams feel real while dreamt.
As computational systems become more capable of deciphering and anticipating human preferences, such systems could generate customized environments in real-time with less conscious input from users. Eventually such systems may not require conscious input to capture and respond to shifting user preferences, though user intervention might still remain an option.
We propose a new moniker to describe where we’re heading: synthetic reality. Such systems will synthesize our will and preferences, whether or not consciously provided, into new, ever-evolving realities.
See the full story here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwolcott/2017/08/18/beyond-virtual-reality-synthetic-reality-and-our-co-created-futures/#3af3a58a1320