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So, for example, full-immersion virtual reality from within the nervous system, the nano-bots shut down the signals coming from your real senses, replace them with the signals that your brain would be receiving if you were in the virtual environment, and then it'll feel like you're in that virtual environment.

Now, we’ve saddled light with information and redirected it to run along a fiber optic superhighway— with many different integrated photonic exits— to build an even more expansive, virtual world.

These fluctuations are driven by the continuous creation and destruction of virtual particle pairs, which consist of a particle and its oppositely charged antiparticle.

You know, I guess the first question is, why build a virtual world at all?

And I think that Second Life and virtual worlds more generally represent the best we can do to achieve that right now.

You know, another way to look at that, and related to the content and, you know, thinking about space, is to connect sort of virtual worlds to space.

And I think that if you really sit and think about it, virtual worlds, and where we're going with more and more computing technology, represent essentially the likely, really tactically possible version of space exploration.

We are moved by the idea of virtual worlds because, like space, they allow us to reinvent ourselves and they contain anything and everything, and probably anything could happen there.

In fact, Second Life virtual worlds are a lot like the Internet in the early '90s today: everybody's very excited, there's a lot of hype and excitement about one idea or the next from moment to moment, and then there's despair and everybody thinks the whole thing's not going to work.

Everything that's happening with Second Life and more broadly with virtual worlds, all happened in the early '90s.

It's about 20,000 computers connected together in three facilities in the United States right now, that are simulating this virtual space.

It was critical with the virtual world that it be this space of truly infinite possibility.

That's one way of organizing information, but there are two things about the way you access information in a virtual world that I think are the important ways that they're very different and much better than what we've been able to do to date with the Web.

And so virtual worlds are the best way for us to essentially organize and experience information.

And so I think, again, that it's likely that in the next decade or so these virtual worlds are going to be the most common way as human beings that we kind of use the electronics of the Internet, if you will, to be together, to consume information.

Is a virtual world likely to be a utopia, would be one way I'd say it.

That idea of infinite possibility, that magic of anything can happen, only happens in an environment where you really know that there's a fundamental freedom at the level of the individual actor, at the level of the Lego blocks, if you will, that make up the virtual world.

And as you can imagine, this is going to be used to give virtual assistants a body and a face.

I already love it that when I talk to virtual assistants, they answer back in a soothing, humanlike voice.

You'll be able to tell when a virtual assistant is busy or confused or concerned about something.

Now, it could be that motion pictures and eventually, virtual reality, or something equivalent to it, some sort of immersive display, is going to provide us with our most efficient escape from the world that we're in.

You can imagine building up some library, whether real or virtual, of fingerprints of essentially every virus.

Alex has this interface just underneath his thumb, and if he were to use this with VR goggles and hand controllers, now the virtual reality is no longer virtual.

But now we needed to get Brad's performance to drive our virtual Benjamin.

Well, at enormous expense, TED has arranged a high-resolution immersion virtual reality rendering of the view from intergalactic space.

So if you just imagined them all being part of some big, virtual documentation system in the sky, say on the Internet, then life would be so much easier.

Finally, for those of you who perhaps are more cynical about all of this, who maybe don't think that virtual worlds and games are your cup of tea.

All the technology behind virtual worlds is different.

Group C got the same financial incentive, but it was framed as a loss rather than a gain: $1.40 a day is 42 dollars a month, so we gave these participants 42 dollars at the beginning of each month in a virtual account that they could see, and we took away $1.40 for every day they didn't walk 7,000 steps.

A productive path can be physical, like Darwin's, or a virtual one, or an unforeseen detour from a path we had laid out.

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