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Ariadne
Myself
Monstrada a straw hat with a round crown and two little bunches of lilies-of-the-valley pinned to the brim at the back The hat had a veil of thick lace with round holes, so I couldn&039;t see my face behind it at all It all looked very beautiful, but sountil suddenly I recognised that bronze htened me, and then the dreaanizoona virtual reality helmet Honest I did
Nutscracker
That&039;s not any kind of virtual reality helmet; it&039;s soht to kno a virtual reality hel like it
Organizm(-:
And how does it work?
Nutscracker
Maybe I don&039;t understand too hich way the current flows and what it&039;s transformed into and all, but I do know perfectly hat someone in one of those helmets sees and thinks, because I&039;ve dealt with it as a professional, by studying the problem of choice in an interactive environanizm(-:
I&039;ve never heard of that probleine you decide for yourself who&039;s going to shoot hen you&039;re watching an action ets killed in the first shootout, then what happens to the rest of the plot? If you had genuinely free choice, the results could be pretty miserable But art is supposed to make us happy, not miserable
Monstradamus
That&039;s for sure And even when it does make us miserable, we should feel happy in our ht! So there never is any genuine interactivity, only the appearance of it Or rather, it is pere where no choice you e the fundamental situation The main problem is to elily tohis firm belief that his choice is free In scientific terms it&039;s known as coercive orientation
UGLI 666
What&039;s that?
Nutscracker
That&039;s a long story
Organizm(-:
We don&039;t have much else to occupy ourselves with
Monstradaht Tell us about it, Nutcracker Let&039;s give our brains a break
Nutscracker
I suppose there&039;s no need to explain what the Helanizon that&039;s what they call the guy in the helmet A Helmholtz is someone who&039;s located in an artificial dimension that totally isolates him from the real world and moves around in it, or rather, thinks he moves around in it Let&039;s assume this dimension takes the for on it And e have to do to keep the action ht direction is to lead the Helanizm(-:
Three identicalto put the helmet on
Nutscracker
Instead of vases they could be doors, turns at a road junction, any kind of choice at all in fact It&039;s not i you see in the helram can be set up so that, every time, the Helanizraot his own progra
Nutscracker
That&039;s the whole point When the helle whole, you can edit the reader as well as the book, if you get y can be external or internal Although there&039;s no clear boundary between theain?
Nutscracker
External technologies affect e see, internal technologies affect e think
Organizm(-:
How about an exaram is &039;Sticky Eye&039; That&039;s when, as you turn your head, one of the vases gets stuck in the field of vision and lingers there longer than it should
Monstradamus
But what about the two other vases? They&039;re standing next to it According to the laws of perspective
Nutscracker
How perspective operates inside the helmet is decided by us and our client Another ht&039; When the Helram slon his movement And when he approaches, it speeds his ht to his foot and it keeps disappearing and reappearing again That makes it easier to move towards the chosen vase than in any other direction, and disorganised series of rando the Helanizht That&039;s beautiful
Nutscracker
The next technology up is &039;Pavlov&039;s Bitch&039; That&039;s an interanizm(-:
So it&039;s named after that Russian scientist who noticed his sto?
UGLI 666
No he didn&039;t, he just studied conditioned reflexes in dogs
Nutscracker
I didn&039;t invent the name When you look at the vases that ant to exclude fro and you get a horrible buzzing in your ears, or even an electric shock So you won&039;t look at thehtaway
Nutscracker
We want you to notice it straightaway, draw the right conclusion and look in the right direction in future It&039;s a cheap technology for third-world countries But if the budget&039;s big enough, then for instance we can use infrasonics The Hel, but he&039;ll experience a dark, mysterious horror when he turns towards any vase except the one ant The obverse method is stimulation of the pleasure centre when the correct choice is made They used to insert an electrode, but now it&039;s done by phar the brain to delta rhythall that stuff to us if atch interactive movies?
Nutscracker
I don&039;t think so These techniques weren&039;t developed for the movies, not even for virtual spaces They were just modelled there The topic is not in the public domain But since you and I aren&039;t in the public domain either, I suppose it&039;s okay for anizrams like?
Nutscracker
Well, for instance, take &039;Sunny Kiss&039; The vase we have to choose is endoith positive e universally accepted aesthetic codes, given a positive inner content, if you like
UGLI 666
Inner content Would that be inside the vase or inside the viewer?
Nutscracker
That&039;s a difficult question You could say it&039;s inside the helmet But all that&039;s just words It&039;s easier for ht falls on our vase, or you hear a soulful melody in the air when it enters your field of view The reverse technique is &039;Doom and Gloom&039; For instance, when you look at a vase we don&039;t like, the sun is covered by dark clouds, a grey fog coanizh What else?
Nutscracker
There&039;s another technology called &039;The Seventh Seal&039; The vase that has to be chosen is ns that attract interest or sti - a hand print on its surface, arrows pointing to it on the ground, a dove sitting on its edge, raffiti, and so on and so forth The obverse method is &039;The Le Pen Club&039; That&039;s when the vases ish to exclude are covered in the crudest obscenities you can iine, preferably not even in paint, but xxx Virtual, of course
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