{"id":324,"date":"2005-10-06T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T17:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=324"},"modified":"2024-11-26T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T00:42:09","slug":"how-real-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"How Real Is Real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired is carrying an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,69035,00.html\">article<\/a> on a service that uses Photoshop to composite photos to create an illusion of freedom and happiness for prisoners and their loved ones; in effect, to create a kind of virtual reality from elements of reality. Check this comparison shot out:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/pic\/prisonvirtual.jpg\" alt=\"prisonvirtuality\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now remember this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?p=72\">post<\/a> from shortly after I joined the Second Life virtual community? Back then I said &#8220;who&#8217;s to say what&#8217;s valid and what isn&#8217;t?&#8221; Look at the image below of two SL residents meeting virtually in cyberspace and explain to me how it&#8217;s arguably any less real than the composite above:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/pic\/slreality.jpg\" alt=\"SL reality\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say there are a few people who have never been in an online virtual world who might prefer to have a say in what&#8217;s valid and wouldn&#8217;t put up an argument. This reminds me of the scene from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083658\/\"><em>Blade Runner<\/em><\/a>&#8221; where Roy asks Leon: &#8220;Did you get your precious photos?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>{Top image source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsbeyondthewall.com\/\">Friends Beyond the Wall<\/a> ; Bottom image Copyright \u00a9 2005 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluniverse.com\/pics\/Default.aspx?Name=Erelas+Night\">Erelas Night<\/a>}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired is carrying an interesting article on a service that uses Photoshop to composite photos to create an illusion of freedom and happiness for prisoners and their loved ones; in effect, to create a kind of virtual reality from elements &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-transreality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}