Touchy VR

I shared this article a number of years ago.

Virtual reality objects you can FEEL just like on Star Trek’s holodeck move a step closer thanks to new ‘universal law of touch’

I shared it to a Discord group I’m part of again today. I’ve searched for this article so many times on my own Facebook page, that I knew that it was time to put it here.

Then there also This VR accessory is designed to make your mouth feel stuff, which uses a different methodology (I also shared it years ago).

Both technologies have the potential to “dis-embody” us. They also have the potential to embody us in ways we cannot yet see.

Will this lead us to being pod people of the Matrix? Maybe. Does that invalidate our experiences?

This is a core question I am trying to resolve.

As a person who treasures the Eucharist (i.e., Last Supper, Communion, The Lord’s Table), I see a huge win on one hand experiencing the Eucharist in VR (a VR Means of Grace). On the other hand, what does that do to our theology? How does transubstantiation (Roman Catholic view), consubstantiation (Lutheran view), spiritual (Methodist/Anglican), work in VR?

I’m pretty sure I know where the Roman Catholic church will land (physical), but the rest of us, perhaps not. I have no answer, and I likely won’t until I experience it.