Is VR For Our Own Memories A Good Idea?

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What are your thoughts on using virtual reality for your own memories? In some ways it seems like it would be cool as hell but, on the other hand, it could be kinda creepy too. Most of us would probably just use it for sex memories anyway. :D

“I’ve recorded similar things too, little fleeting moments,” he said. “Sitting with my grandmother in her home. Having breakfast with my son. Here’s the thing: A few years from now, when my grandmother is gone, I’ll be able to sit with her. Twenty years from now, when my son is an adult, I’ll be able to put on some goggles and sit across the breakfast table from him as a little boy.”
 
I had an experience that was weird. I use Google Photos - it occasionally stitches together photos and animates them. My wife and I were going through these, and found it had created a movie of her grandfather who passed away about 10 years ago. He was moving around, laughing in the movie. Honestly, it caught us both off guard and was a little jarring. Not sure why, but I don't think they have any videos of him.
Now, if you do this with VR, holy cow - that would be the next level. It might be like the scene in Minority Report. Good or bad? IDK. For my generation, I'll just label it as weird for now. When my kids are grown up, it might be totally common place.
I wouldn't mind the sex memories...what was the movie with Christopher Walken, Brainscape? Brainwaves? Something like that.
 
On the one hand, could be great to treat people with PTSD and or remembering details about crimes, or relive great memories like a photo or video.

On the other, people could abuse it for never learning to let go of something mentally and moving on.
 
This sounds like it could cause some serious mental problems.
 
On the other, people could abuse it for never learning to let go of something mentally and moving on.

That's the problem I'm seeing. Suppose someone loses a child or loved one. Why would you leave those memories. You'd want to spend all the time with them. It wouldn't be healthy. You'd probably whither away in a depression in VR, just so you could keep those memories...

I like historical stuff in VR, but not personal memories...
 
Great way for people who have a twisted sense of reality to further enforce their delusions. Everyone has that cousin who remembers some event way back when yet you remember things differently, now the question is which of you is mental :D
 
Great way for people who have a twisted sense of reality to further enforce their delusions. Everyone has that cousin who remembers some event way back when yet you remember things differently, now the question is which of you is mental :D

You still think you're right? Damn, dude. Let it go.

:D
 
That's right folks, we're so desperate to find a use for VR that we're exploring the possibility of letting you relive tea time with your dead mum. Only $29.99 for the 'experience!'
 
No doubt, in the future, VR will be used for things we can't even imagine of or now think of as being creepy. Who is to say in 50 years there will be "photographs" as we know it.. it all might be more akin to "Harry Potter" photographs that aren't static images. Perhaps everything will just be 3D, 360 degree VR video.

Whatever will be used in the future to share memories will probably just be that era's/generation's equivalent to yesterday's scrapbook.

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I see this leading to a lot of possibly depressed people. reliving memories of ex's or lost loved ones. I lost my mom when i was 17 about 10 years ago and if there was a way i could relive the moments that she was alive in VR I probably wouldn't do it, couldn't handle it.
 
tony stark already did this, cost him 6.5 billions dollars...
 
Just wait until the court cases roll in where your own memories are used against you because "memories stored on (insert location here) aren't protected..blah blah blah"
 
Sex memories!!!!

If you can sell it...... OMG... even old porn actresses can make tons of money.
 
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