I spent hundreds of hours working on VR.This is what i learned

In all the environments I can enter, I still prefer to orbit the earth. On the left is the Milky Way; in the distance, the moon reflects the pale fire she stole from the sun; on the right, the city lights in Southeast Asia burn for me; just in front of me, an email tells me that I need to change my attendance The billing code on the card and resubmit as soon as possible. The slowly rotating globe shows all the places I can explore and experience if I am not here in complete isolation.

I began to wonder if I would go crazy on this spaceship? I asked Monideepa Tarafdar, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management, about the pressure of using technology, starting with working from home. “You are a bit isolated, and technology is the only object you interact with. Everything becomes bigger. All technical problems become bigger than they really are,” she said. “Now you want to put virtual reality first.”

in a Research PapersTarafdar carefully distinguishes distress, even if we get worse from stress, and eustress, the stress that pushes us to do better. “You are losing a positive source of stress,” the key to it is other people. “I think family life is a good thing.”

The personality of the Immersed app is the “technical brother”. From the introductory tutorial, it says that I “get a crush today!” The weekly email compares my time in VR with the time spent by the seemingly “power user”, which is all about maximizing productivity . It’s true: I was so focused on work and went deep into this area that I didn’t notice that my forehead was numb. Clues like the setting of the sun on another day are invisible to me, and I can’t see the mess in the meat space room. I don’t get up and clean every 20 minutes to distract myself.

The house is getting messy.

But I want to use the headset in a way that is less “smashing imaginary opponents” and more “corpse poses”. About six months after getting this VR headset, I found an inflatable pool raft behind the closet where people can float on it and enjoy the cool water and warm sunlight. I put it on the floor of this room, and now I lay on it, and every muscle was relaxed. A virtual screen hovered over a meter and a half above my head. This method can only be realized on a real-world screen after a lot of carpentry work. I put my hands on my sides, my right hand on the laptop keyboard, and my left hand on the external keyboard plugged into the laptop. I have a hoodie on my head, not because I am an “elite hacker”, but because it keeps me away from the heat. For the same reason, I covered myself with a blanket, only exposed my chin, suppressing the sound of my typing to you.

This is the promise of using VR to work: completely still, but requires an active mind. The world does not bother me, and I do not bother it.

I finally entered the cyberpunk future that I had always dreamed of, joined Matrix, and now changed my name to Metaverse. But in all the excitement I got there, I didn’t realize the choice was there, I chose to disappear from here.

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