Apple’s Vision Pro Goggles Could Rewire the Human Brain, Destroying Common Ground | CLIP

[Music] [Applause] hey welcome to Crossroads folks I want to talk to you today about what's happening with these new Apple goggles and the effects they could have on the human brain because well guess what you start messing with reality then you start toying with the wiring of the brain and you can alter the nature of how people interpret the world around them and of course alter Humanity in unforeseen ways let's talk about it now you might have seen Apple released its New Vision Pro virtual reality goggles and they can overlay the digital world onto the real world this new device is designed in a way so that people can wear them almost constantly this will become the new reality for the individuals who do this and there's now a growing concern of well how's this technology can alter the human brain and possibly warp reality at its foundations by notably destroying the common ground that help shaped societies everyone's going to live in their own little world this is Insider in what it says it says the Vision Pro like the similarly kitted out Quest 3 and Quest Pro headsets from meta Facebook uses what's known as pass through video cameras and other sensors that capture imagery of the outside world and then reproduce it inside the device you think it's real but it's not they feed you a synthe atic environment made to look like the real one with Apple apps and other non-real elements floating inside in front of it and apple and meta it says are hoping that this virtual world this new world that looks like the real world but it's not will be so compelling that you just won't visit you're hope they're hoping you'll live there and this is important when you use these goggles it seems like you're still in the normal world seems like you're still in the normal reality but you're actually not you're living in a world generated by Facebook or apple and of course overlaid with the apps and information they want to place there and of course you're subject to the interpretations of the way reality should be and should not be based on those companies now further in it says that unfortunately this could have some very weird issues and very messy consequences for the human brain researchers had found that widespread long-term immersion and VR headsets could literally change the way we perceive the world and each other they say that our brains are about to undergo a massive society-wide experiment we don't know what it's going to do to us that could rewire our senses our sense of the world around us and it says make it even harder to agree on what constitutes reality now my take there are issues where it affects users perception you know your brains and muscles get used to it and so things like depth perception they start to get warped and this can be significant if you wear these all the time but on a more significant level besides just being like disoriented for example when you take them off because if you wear them all the time you're in that reality and the way that you move your hands to do the gestures to interact with the app and so on your brain in a way gets fooled into thinking that that is reality and when you take them off you're in a different reality which may eventually seem less real than the fake one if you do it too much on a deeper level though it introduces the ability to change your own perceived reality you can remove people you can change locations you can take things out of your environment you can put things into your environment again it's technically like a very realistic video game basically and eventually it'll be that everyone wearing these will have a different world around them everybody is going to live in their own little created world and people will start losing Common Ground the common reality shared by human beings is going to go away and for frequent users you know the world in the goggles will become your normal world it's like the Matrix folks I don't know if any of you folks ever watched the director commentary on that but they actually said something very interesting on some of the experiments on virtual reality and Virtual Worlds and keep in mind when that movie came out and of course it did the director commentary this was very early on in VR technology virtual reality technology they said that based on studies that had been already conducted at the time the human brain once it becomes immersed in an artificial reality can no longer differentiate real from fake the real world becomes just as fake as the fake world and the fake World becomes just as real as the real world when you take them off you're going to be disoriented because your brain believes that the other one is the true reality and I'd say if that happens then What Becomes of the real world around you What Becomes of the real world for you even and what happens as well as these become more integrated where people may not have much of a choice but to use them or you get a you know chip in your brain or something like that and if you add to this the other things like extremely immersive violent video games where people start to think that that's the real world and they take them off and they're disoriented won't be everybody but some people will be affected by it virtual reality pornography virtual reality chat Bots that you can visit your girlfriend or boyfriend that's not real in your imaginary world by you know AI to create people who are around you but they're not really there you're going to have essentially like digital schizophrenia and of course people who decide that the real world's just too much and they decide to completely immerse themselves in this fake reality living there constantly again as it overlaps with the real world and then add to this the other problems the issues of what this will do you know this technology is going to do to the human brain itself if the human brain gets rewired so to speak and of course they're talking about that because the gestures the movements the other forms you start to engage in to interact within that true environment your body's motor skills actually begin to adjust to that new reality it's just like having an artificial limb for example or for example a child learning to walk that becomes the reality you're in and the human brain compensates for it and as it does so it's going to have a hard time moving between realities as you go between digital and fake or digital and real and you know people are experimenting with something really with this we don't know what the long-term effects are going to be but it could significantly warp the lines between what is real and what is fake because there are going to be some people who start to see the fake world is more real and I think as you have people who don't want to accept reality of their bodies or of politics or of anything else uh they're going to be escaping into something that's fake and of course as that becomes more integrated into society itself we're going to have to deal with this in terms of how does law interact with this how does working in school how do these interact driving interact with it already you have people wearing them while they drive cars by the way and because it's going to blur the nature of reality itself this is going to be essentially like digital psychosis a hallucination made to look real to each individual an individual who can of course manifest their delusions into what appears to be a real space but is not and that artificial reality will begin slowly to replace true reality for those people who decide to use it