dale_glass

The supernatural is a nonsensical concept. If it exists, it's automatically natural, as the laws of nature are descriptive and not prescriptive.

If something exists that doesn't fit in the current idea of the "material world", the definition of "material world" will change to accomodate it.

How old were you when you escaped? Was it difficult, and did it take a lot of planning?

Do you notify the person that is getting tested in such cases? Like "this looks bad, you should probably see a doctor"?

I get the VR part, what I never got was the intended business model and how it could be made to work despite the architecture.

The former High Fidelity was similar to Second Life in many ways, but I think one thing SL did masterfully that HiFi never did was to come up with a solid business plan.

SL still exists because it's excellent at drawing people to it and keeping them from alternatives. Third party grids are mostly a failure because SL is built in such a way that leaving it difficult. You lose the huge amounts of content that the creators have made, lose contact with the userbase, etc. This means that SL finds itself in a very secure position.

The 3D HiFi however never tried to do any such lock-in, and with self-hosted domains and content, nothing much binds user to one specific company. Anybody else is free to just take the software, run it themselves and pay you nothing. Whether VR went big or not it had little hope of maintaining itself with a virtual economy because the design made it very difficult to make everyone pay. And there was little sign of any other plan. Within an hour or showing up I was wondering how it'd ever make any money. It was hard to even give the company any.

What you're talking about is the former High Fidelity, which died in 2019. The new High Fidelity is a different project, which oddly enough keeps the same name.

If you want VR, then you may want to try forks of the old codebase. It was open source and still lives in Vircadia and Tivoli Cloud.