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Google Funds Creation of Secretive Avatar-Style Virtual Reality

Source: infowars.com
Second Life founder behind new project that plans to immerse people in Star Trek-like CGI environments within six years

Google is funding a secretive project that will use millions of linked computers to create an Avatar-like virtual reality world in which people could live, interact, and even have sex.

The idea sounds like a rudimentary version of the 1999 science fiction thriller The Thirteenth Floor, in which supercomputers create a simulated reality populated by human characters who don’t know that they are living in an artificially generated world.

Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, the program’s architect, says the idea is to “create a virtual place with the kind of richness and communication and interaction that we find in the real world, and then get us all in there.” Rosedale boldly predicts that within six years High Fidelity will allow people to immerse themselves in virtual landscapes that resemble cutting edge CGI environments seen in movies likeAvatar and Star Trek.

The slogan for the project states, “If it doesn’t hurt to think about it, we’re not going to try it.”



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Read the full article at: infowars.com

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