u/Own_Eagle_712

I've been thinking about what I want to see right from the start. The first seconds, minutes, hours. What's the plan? So, here's the dream come true, do whatever you want.

Personally, I imagine it will be late evening, somewhere on the shore of a coastal town. I'll definitely summon my own AI companion to guide me through all the possibilities of FDVR, and I'll sit there for a few hours, trying to take it all in.

And cigarettes. Lots of cigarettes, damn it! I quit in real life a long time ago, but I'm looking forward to safely returning to the habit.

What about you?

I recently sat down and tried to honestly figure out how far we really are from the first versions of FDVR. Turns out we're not as far as I used to believe.

Basically, for the early versions we need:

1. Solid real-time world generation with AI that can run on regular PCs. This feels pretty close already. Look at how fast image/video gen is moving and stuff like Project Genie.
2. The ability to stimulate the right parts of the brain and feed them the generated information. This seems tricky, but BCI companies are already doing it quite successfully. We're not talking about super deep brain layers we can't reach. So, yes, it's difficult, but it's not at the level where we need to study the ENTIRE brain. (That's what I thought until recently.)
3. Much more stable internet, something like 6G with latency under 20ms. From what I know, China is planning to roll it out around 2029.
4. And of course go through the usual public denial phase, which is literally happening right now with AI.

Obviously I'm skipping a lot of steps, but most of them are already being worked on anyway and aren't the real blockers. With how fast AI is developing and research is accelerating, my personal estimate moved from 2045+ to something like 2035±.

The biggest challenge won't even be inventing the tech itself, but making it actually accessible to normal people — that’s going to require a huge economic and societal shift.