I've had an Oculus Rift before. As a gamer, I think it was mega fun and awesome, but these guys are definitely not selling VR short.
VR is a long long way away from competing with LDing. We're still comparing video games to lucid dreams. Apples and oranges.
I mean sure, instant gratification with VR. But that doesn't make up for how much it lacks. You can still feel your buttocks against the chair. Your body movements are still heavily constricted. No sensation apart from sound and crappy vision.
LDing is only limited by your imagination and your ability to stabilize the dream.
The day that VR feels like real life, is the day that LDing is being challenged.
And that will ONLY happen through brain-to-computer interfaces.
And to be honest, it will likely use our existing dreaming-engine in our brain to power the graphics. So it will be more like forced lucid dreams (forced shared dreams for multiplayer), where the dream is half-controlled by a computer.
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