The Future of 3D Animation - The Virtual World on Steroids and Life As Simulator

The future of animation is nearly upon us, wheresimulation, rather than facing a reality. Another
you become your own avatar in a virtual world,thought came out of the conversation which is
interacting with characters and becoming oneintriguing and that is the use of a human collective
yourself. Let me explain, a few years backy Iof minds of those who were currently in their
met an interesting Gentleman at a Coffee Shop,simulator. Since many parts of the brain would not
Robert V. Ries, was his name. Bob expressed tobe used they would be hooked together at a
me that he felt our life experience was nothingquantum level to work on problems and being fully
more than a really good simulator which put usexercised while the other parts of the brain were
into organic bodies to experience the Earthlingsfully engaged in the simulator. In fact we
Realm and to test our will and strength ofdetermined by lengthening the dreamtime of the
character in a variety of situations.participant we could extend their life by ten fold
He went on to say that we were interacting withand still borrow some of their brain capacity while
many other is the same simulator. We talked foridling the body.
hours and his theories seemed somewhatWe further surmised that we could use brain in
far-fetched, although he did go into a longthe simulator during their pretend dream times
scientific explanation of how this might work. Heand take them down to 1-5 Hz frequency for
explained our advancement of Artificial Intelligence,super immune healing of the body, blood filtration
Simulation, Electronic Gaming, as well as moderncleaning and ion-therapy. Meanwhile while operating
day movies such as Vanilla Sky, The Matrix andat such low frequencies the mind would be
Fight Club. We discussed the Department ofstraddling what we perceive as time. We could
Defense's Net-Centric Battlespaces where yourthen send others into the simulator for brief visits
targets came up in augmented reality and howto ask questions of the participant to see how
your night vision and eye-tracking systemstheir life simulator was progressing, interact with
became human brain-mind-eye interfaces with thethem and then report back the findings and
silicon world in a 4D world where you could seepossible futures that their brains had picked up on.
below, beyond and 360 degrees.When the person woke up they would feel
He explained paradigms of time, space and mind.younger, be in perfect health, be many years
Additionally I brought up other concepts whichforward in their actual life and then return to
assisted the conversation; concepts of NASA'ssociety free from psychological issues, health
ten screen Air Traffic Control Simulators, Sci-Fiissues and in the future. But who would volunteer
writer Ben Bova's insights on the future of Marsfor this? Rather who might pay for this. Our
and space for entertainment tourism, Bill Gate'sthoughts were anyone dying of a disease, anyone
investment in Six Flags Magic Mountain andwho could not cope, anyone who felt that they
DARPA's research with mapping of a human lifewere living in the wrong time period or anyone
studying the experiences, emails, movies,who really wanted to experience an extreme in
conversations and events from birth to death.life. Extreme pleasure, adversity or challenge
The discussion in fact went thru all theseekers would be worthy candidates, also it would
technologies of simulation from truck driving tobe great for offenders of society or prison
first responders. It became apparent to me thatrehabilitation as they would be donating brain
even if the life experience was not a simulator,capacity to the collective for important projects,
well with the rapidly approaching technology, itlearn a new lesson, be cured of their disruptive
certainly could be. We also discussed issues ofbehavior and so on.
one in a state of animation where their bodies didOur conversation ended abruptly as he noticed he
not move but they remained in the life simulationneeded to get to the airport top catch his plane
event, which they had chosen, and their bodiesback to the UK, although I had not gotten his
were flipped over and biometrically watched as toemail address for further dialogue to continue this
prevent entropy; similar to the movie Coma.conversation, perhaps me passing it on to you
We decided that perhaps it would not be such amay be just as good. Think on this for me.
bad life as you could chose your dream or