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First a few nitpicks 1. Walking around a gallery and waving your arms is not enough exercise 2. Incremental progress is giving us VR through Tactical Haptics,
by Detrus 12y ago
First a few nitpicks
1. Walking around a gallery and waving your arms is not enough exercise
2. Incremental progress is giving us VR through Tactical Haptics, Oculus Rift, etc. He says his thing is not VR but R or dynamic R. The distinction is unclear, sounds like marketing.
I also had the idea of talking about systems, particularly political systems through models and simulations. Having spent too much time talking about politics, economics, and computer holy wars in text, it feels like a few interactive models could have saved all that time for millions of people.
That said, simulations are widely used to communicate about financial topics, mainly spreadsheets. And the effects of using spreadsheets are pretty interesting https://medium.com/backchannel/a-spreadsheet-way-of-knowledge-8de60af7146e https://medium.com/backchannel/a-spreadsheet-way-of-knowledg...
People start thinking in spreadsheets. A lot of the weird merger acquisitions since the 1980's were basically caused by them. Economists already use fancier models. And as with spreadsheets, garbage in, garbage out. Still I feel they'd be useful in casual conversation.
- dropit_sphere 12y agoThat last part catches my interest. Could someone do to the agent-based model what the spreadsheet did to arithmetic, i. e. make it low-effort and scalable?
- jamesrom 12y ago1. If you are doing it all day, it would almost certainly be sufficient. 2. He's talking beyond VR. He never says VR isn't a stepping stone. But he does make a good point about it being dehumanising.