I Have Seen the Future.
And I don’t have any idea what to do with it.
Last night, I was shown the future of entertainment as it pertains to augmented reality and artificial intelligence. I thought it was a dream, but when I woke up, my first thought was, “You were shown,” and I truly believe I was. If you’re not a religious person, put it in the locker with subconscious processing, realization and synthesis of disparate encountered threads of information. Either way works for me.
Here is what I saw:
A theater, filled with people. We were there for a demonstration of technology. There was a big screen, but it remained blank throughout. Everyone wore glasses, myself included. Once the show started, it was shockingly, fully-immersive VR. Not just 3-D, but immersively visual and tactile.
The whole theater was in an uproar, people standing, waving, fighting with nothing, reacting to what they saw as if it were happening in front of them. But my show was different from other people’s. I could tell that the guy next to me was seeing something different than I was. Everyone’s movie was different.
More or less, that was when I woke up. But as happens in dreams, the visual was only the tip of the iceberg and as I processed it in that semi-lucid state between dreaming and waking, I understood a lot more.