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Thursday, April 5, 2018

Having seen RPO the message is not quite "Oasis" as a preferred reality but useful in that time spent "there" will make you want to spend more time in Mr. Hollyway's "Real Reality."


Spielberg's VR a little like sensory deprivation. When ascending from time beneath the Earth, caving, when arriving at the surface your vision, hearing, everything around you seems to convey a sense of wonder.VR is portrayed not as darkly as Robots in A.I. (the misanthrope Stanley Kubrick, Spielberg's mentor, was the guiding force behind A.I.) but it is a cautionary tale. Will it sell headsets, maybe, maybe not. It will do for VR what Minority Report or Ironman did for AR. The best sequences IMO were those in VR where the "Oasis" were indistinguishable from reality i.e. the scenes from The Shining in and around the Overlook Hotel. The Palmer Luckey ideal that people want to "live" in VR in an eternal hunt for Easter Eggs amid archaic reminders of popular culture will be for those already living on the fringes.

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