Virtual Reality Will Affect Actual Reality

Since tech wizard Jaron Lanier made virtual reality popular in the 1990s, many claims have been made about its transformative power. Most of these have proved to be hype and VR remained little more than a fad, popular with video gamers. But in his new book, VR: Experience On Demand, Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of the Virtual Human Interactive Lab at Stanford University, insists that VR is at last coming of age, with new applications from conservation to the treatment of PTSD.

When National Geographic caught up with him by phone from Stanford, Bailenson explained how VR is now being used to raise awareness about climate change, help quarterbacks memorize plays for the NFL, and even help first 9/11 responders suffering from PTSD.

When I interviewed Jaron Lanier, the pioneer of VR, two decades ago, he was ecstatic about its potential. Recently he said the digital “hive mind” threatens to lead us into “social catastrophe.” Which is right?

Jaron is a great colleague of mine. He and I have published papers together and we talk a lot about VR as a tool to make people better, for collaboration and expression. The thing to remember is that VR is a medium. Just like the written word, just like video, and it all depends on what we do with it. Throughout his long, amazing career, Jaron has been someone who pushes us to use technology for good, to think about how to use avatars to make people more collaborative, to reduce prejudice, and increase productivity.

One of the bold claims you make is that VR can help save the planet. Describe the thinking here, and how an experiment on the island of Ischia, in Italy, is helping combat ignorance about climate change.

Climate change science is very abstract, so it’s hard for a person to fathom a world in which there are extreme weather events and higher sea levels and how it’s going to affect his or her daily life. So what we did in Ischia was take a marine site that scientists have been studying for decades, which shows how carbon dioxide is destroying coral and degrading the food web.

I can’t bring the entire world to Ischia to show how CO2 degrades ecosystems. But with VR, I can bring Ischia to people. So we produced a seven-minute journey that shows how all the oceans will look like in about 50 years, based on this one site in Ischia. Using this VR model, people get to be a scientist, explore the effects of CO2 on various species in the ecosystem and organically learn by doing.

We’ve tested it in high school and college classrooms; thousands of people go through it at different museums. We have a permanent installation at the San Jose Tech Museum and we’ve brought it to the U.S. Senate, where senators and congressmen and congresswomen can experience it. I can confidently say that this simulation increases knowledge about climate change by showing them, viscerally, how it is going to affect us all.

How Virtual Reality Affects Actual Reality | National Geographic

This reminds me of this 9/11 VR video. Experiencing reality through virtual reality even though it's a fake reality:

Reality Check VR

USA Gymnastics Sex Abuse Scandal. Theater For The Mind?

Usually I don't read Miles Mathis because I see him put disinfo into his papers and also he gets sidetracked into other topics instead of the focus of the title of his papers. This paper has some good points which I highlighted below about the USA Gymnastics Sexual Abuse Show Trial. I think all these Sexual Abuse Scandals emerging is being put out there for bringing all of American Institutions down and creating more distrust in the United States. These celebrities are perfectly willing to be shamed in front of the unwashed masses. They enjoy the duping delight they derive from events like this.

Here's a masonic pic (one side of face lit up) I found of one of the main gymnast accusers Aly Raisman. This is why I think this is part of a display of Masonic Theater too. Masons love putting on a show. I could also see this being a form of masonic hazing. Masons hazing fellow masons in public. Also what about this as being a way to normalize pedophilia? Showcase people with problems molesting young women and how we have to accept these types of people eventually because of the frequency of these sex abuse cases happening.

In case you don't know, a doctor for the US Gymnastics Team has recently been sentenced to 175 years in jail for molesting young female gymnasts. As terrible as that sounds, there is a very good possibility it isn't true. Why do I say that? Well, because the reports of the trial of this Larry Nassar don't make any sense. My first clue was this quote from the judge at his sentencing:

I've just signed your death warrant.

This Judge Rosemarie Aquilina also said “I wouldn't send my dogs to you, sir”.

That all sounds like theater, since real judges don't talk like that. They actually aren't allowed to, and if she had said that at the end of a real trial, she could be removed from her seat and disbarred. Talk like that from a sentencing judge is cause for an appeal, which is why real judges don't say things like that.They don't want to give an appeals court reason to find bias. But a statement like the first one is way over the top, since it isn't even true. When I first read the headlines, I thought, “Oh my God, she gave this guy the death penalty!” That is what the words mean, after all. But if we read closer, she didn't sign his death warrant at all. She allegedly put him away for life, but that is completely different.

And if you think the 175 years also seems like theater, you aren't alone. It is unprecedented, and that is admitted in the accompanying literature. For example, go to the Wikipedia page for this case and you will find a long backstory, which includes previous offenders in gymnastics. One of these is former coach James Bell, convicted of molesting three gynmasts in 2003. He is allegedly serving 8 years.Note that is 8 years, not 175 years. You will say 8 years in jail is nothing. But go spend a month in jail and then get back to me.

Another curious thing we are told is that at the sentencing the judge read aloud a letter Nassar had written to the court after pleading guilty, in which he accused the girls of lying and said “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. Yeah. And you believe that? You believe that guys already in prison write letters to the court like that, jeopardizing their own trials? I guess he just wanted another hundred years in jail or so. You don't write informal “letters” to the court. You might petition the court through your attorney for some reason, but those petitions are not public and would not be read in court by a judge. Such an action would be considered highly unusual—or insane—by any appellate court and might be reason for tossing the whole trial. The appellate court might also recommend the judge for a psychiatric evaluation.

Nassar's sentence is also weird, since we are told he was sentenced to 40 to 175 years. Well, which was it? And what is the spread based on? If you went to the doctor and he told you you had 10 to 100months to live, you would say, “Thanks, Doc, but that isn't really helpful.” It looks to me like these numbers are being published to add to the confusion. Most people will read this stuff and just give up trying to understand any of it, which is what they want. They don't want you understanding anything,they want to just accept it and move on.

Next, we find the prosecuting attorney is actually the Assistant Attorney General of Michigan, Angela Povilaitis. Is anyone involved here not Jewish, I wonder? Povilaitis is a prominent Lithuanian/Jewis hname. Just look it up. But regardless, it is strange to see this trial in Federal(circuit) court, prosecuted by the State Attorney General's office. I don't really understand why the Attorney General would be involved in such a case. Yes, the case became very high profile, but only because the media turned it into their usual circus.

Which brings us to the way this case hit the headlines. Although Nassar wasn't charged for these crimes until November of 2017, in February of that year three former gymnasts went on 60 Minutes to air their claims. Others went on Twitter under the #MeToo hashtag accusing Nassar. This isn't the way it is done in the real world. The procedure is to go to the police and hire an attorney. Both will tell you to keep the charges out of the media until after the trial—at which time it can be publicized all they want. But normally such girls don't want any publicity either before or after the trial, because they don't want people to know that nasty man had his finger up their wazoos. It should be very embarrassing, but curiously we don't see that here. These girls couldn't wait to talk about it

Judge Aquilina has also had her own syndicated radio talk show,Ask the Family Lawyer. Pretty strange for a circuit court judge. She was also in the Michigan Army National Guard, where she was the first female member of the Judge Advocate General's Corp. This links her to Kelly once again,as you see. She has published two novels with pretty strange titles: Feel No Evil and Triple Cross Killer.That last one came out in 2017, and it is about a serial killer who diverts Santa letters to himself.Intrigued? As usual, we find ourselves being pulled down the same old rabbit hole. Even the most skeptical must be seeing the lay of the land by now. Also, if you thought Aquilina was Spanish, you are wrong. Her father is given as Maltese and her mother as German. That already looks like a clue,since if we go to Wikipedia on the question, we find this: “In the time before World War II many Jews fleeing Nazism came to Malta as it was the only European country not to require visas of Jews fleeing German rule”. So my guess is Aquilina is also Jewish.

Which brings us to the fact this was filmed at all. Cameras used to be prohibited in courtrooms, but  Ias I showed in my O. J. Simpson paper, that severely limited the propaganda value of these fake CIA trials. So any time you see a trial filmed and released nationally, you can be sure it is a CIA/Hollywood project

So am I saying the girls just flat-out lied? Yep. But you have to understand they don't see it that way.They think they are part of a movie about women's rights, you see. That is how it was sold to them.They were probably told that bad guys like this really do exist, so it is important to educate people about it. And, since Nassar isn't really going to jail, no one is hurt here: they aren't lying, they are just part of a fiction. A morality play. I assume a lot of the middle level players in these projects justify their actions like that. I don't think the directors do, since the directors know the know the score. They know why this is going on, and it isn't to educate anyone. It is to mess people up on purpose. But I don't imagine these girls are that evil. They are simply being manipulated, like the rest of us

Why I think the whole USA Gymnastics Fracas is Fake | MilesWMathis.com 

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Markus Allen Needs To Release His Archive Of Audios

Markus Allen from Truthin7minutes.com had some good talks with Chris Kendall at HoaxBustersCall.com and with other like minded people. I know his audios go back to 2008, but it's hard to find many of those audios on the internet. I'm sure a lot of people would like to hear some old Markus Allen audios from back in the day. This one with Adam Curry was good because we learned Adam Curry comes from a family that works in intelligence. Markus Allen if your reading this could you consider releasing the whole archive of Truth in 7 Minutes Audios going back to when your first started in 2008???

Proof Super Bowl 52 Was Scripted?

There are predictions, and then there are scarily-accurate-weirdly-prescient-can-you-see-the-future predictions.

Sheil Kapadia, who covers the Eagles for The Athletic Philadelphia and hosts the Birds with Friends Podcast, gave one of the most precise predictions to come true in recent memory on Feb. 2, two days before the Super Bowl.

He predicted that with 2:16 left in the fourth quarter of a close game, the Patriots would have the ball and that Brandon Graham would come up with the decisive sack fumble.

Seriously.

"I think it's gonna be a game in the fourth quarter with both these teams," Kapadia said. "I think like you that the Patriots are going to get the ball with 2:16 left on the clock. That's when I think the guy you mentioned earlier on this podcast, Brandon Graham, is heard from. I don't know if he'll be rushing from the inside, if he'll be rushing from the edge.

"I think Fletcher Cox will be in Tom Brady's face. He'll step, he'll have nowhere to go. Brandon Graham will come up with the sack-fumble, the Eagles will recover, and the Patriots dynasty will come toppling down."

Of course, Graham did come up with the decisive strip-sack of Tom Brady, and the play's snap happened with exactly 2:16 left on the game clock.

That Youtube video was posted on Feb. 6, so I was initially skeptical that maybe the podcast was recorded after the game. But as you can see on Stitcher, iTunes and SoundCloud, the prediction was clearly made on the "Superb Owl Week - Prediction Time" episode which was posted on all three sites on Feb. 2. The prediction happens in the last three minutes of the podcast.

Eagles Writer Predicts Brandon Graham's Game-Winning Strip Sack to the Exact Second | Sports Illustrated

Jay Dyer Was On Alex Jones

I did not know Mr. Jay Dyer appeared on Alex Jones and Infowars. Yeah nothing to see here. Just Jay Dyer hanging out with obvious controlled opposition Alex Jones. How does one get on Alex Jones without being controlled opposition or at least a Freemason since all who appear on Alex Jones have ties to the occult if you some digging.

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Thomas Jefferson Owned a Qur’an

Two hundred and three years ago this month, President James Madison approved the act of Congress purchasing Thomas Jefferson’s private library. Intended to restock the Library of Congress after its previous holdings were destroyed by British arson during the War of 1812, the transfer of books from Monticello to Washington also highlights a forgotten aspect of religious diversity in early America.

Among the 6,487 books that soon traveled north, Jefferson’s 1734 edition of the Qur’an is perhaps the most surprising.

Historians have attributed the third president’s ownership of the Muslim holy book to his curiosity about a variety of religious perspectives. It’s appropriate to view it that way. Jefferson bought this book while he was a young man studying law, and he may have read it in part to better understand Islam’s influence on some of the world’s legal systems.

Why Thomas Jefferson Owned a Qur’an | Smithsonian.com

Virtual Reality Church

The first time D. J. Soto strapped on an Oculus Rift and stepped into virtual reality, he felt like the ancient prophets must have felt—arriving in the promised land that would fulfill his destiny. It was a summer Friday in 2016, and the virtual world he was visiting, AltSpaceVR, was just a year old. Billing itself as a free social network in virtual reality, AltSpaceVR allows its users to toggle between 2-D and 3-D, using a virtual-reality headset or a computer monitor to explore the space. When Soto entered, he found a virtual world that was practically empty: just a few avatars attending quiz shows or cheesy comedy performances. Still, the young preacher was electrified.

This Pastor Is Putting His Faith in a Virtual Reality Church | Wired.com