One-to-one correspondence

I have been building some VR rooms that correspond one-to-one with actual physical rooms in my life. Being in these VR spaces is an interesting experience.

When I am in the VR version of these rooms, it makes me think of the physical room world. And now when I am in the physical room, it makes me think of the virtual one that I created.

What is interesting about this is that the rules are very different in VR and in real life. In VR I can walk through walls, float up to the ceiling, teleport from one side of the room to the other.

But of course the real world is vastly richer in visual detail and in so many other ways. For all of its many magical possibilities, I don’t think the virtual could ever replace the physical.

Yet these virtual worlds can certainly help us to think about our wonderful physical world in new ways. And that’s pretty awesome.

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