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World VR

When he was a kid in school, Sandy Eggo hated his name. Given to him by his 1960s-era hippy parents, the worst part wasn’t that they‘d given him the first name of Sandy, it was the never-ending “leggo my Eggo” chants he’d heard ever since starting kindergarten. Even now, as an accomplished grown man, he’d still hear those words on occasion. They would be the first words out of some folks’ mouths upon being introduced to him, as though they imagined he would be impressed and amused with their “clever humor” bringing up that same old pun featuring that same, tiring abuse of his name. Eggo is a Scottish name going back to medieval times, and Sandy often dwelled on how different his life could be if he’d lived back then, long before Eggo waffles first appeared on the market. He wouldn’t have had to deal with such repugnant people while trying to suppress his disgust as, being a public figure, he now must.

He’d thought many times about legally changing his last name, if not both; but in his mind, the time had long passed when he could have actually done that without looking like a total douche. At 43, and as the owner and CEO of the company at the center of the most popular and amazing virtual reality entertainment system on the market, he should be far past the point of allowing bad jokes to be a bother to his psyche. Today however, it had happened again, and this time it had upset him more than usual.

When Sandy first started the company, he ensured that the company could never legally use the name Eggo in any reference or description of the company and/or its products and services. Yet the head of sales, just today, had the brilliant idea of requesting a meeting to ask the boss what he thinks of renaming the system to “Eggo VR,” and reusing the old “leggo my Eggo” phrase to boost sales, even though sales are currently through the roof, and the addition of a second manufacturing location is being considered to keep up with the demand. The fact that “leggo my Eggo” is still being used by Kellogg’s for advertising its Eggo waffles seemed to have gone completely unnoticed by the dolt. The whole idea was so ridiculous; Sandy fired him immediately, without further thought. Now, he’ll have to decide on a new hire or have someone on staff promoted to lead the sales team to replace the moron.

“World VR,” the actual name of the company’s flagship product, is, and always will be, “The World’s VR,” according to the company’s product advertising and slogan. Sandy was the creator and architect for World VR from the time the idea first entered his mind, to the present meteoric rise in demand for the device in markets worldwide.

So, what exactly makes World VR so popular?

The simple answer is that several patented processes controlled by the AI engine, and all developed by Sandy himself, facilitates the AI’s continuous cycle of communication to the brain, with brain feedback returning to World VR’s AI thought-center for reprocessing. The first cycle begins with a thought the user chooses from a menu of scenarios, which also can be customized by the user. Once the cycle has begun, the algorithms then switch to reprocessing the “used” thought for the next cycle, and so on. During the process, all of our normal senses are activated/deactivated by the AI signals, and the AI also stimulates and manages the level of enhancement of some of our other senses to the degree that users feel those normally passive senses at stronger levels. World VR gives the user an experience like they’ve never had, regardless of which world they choose to explore, whether it’s a preset one that we know things about, or one that we create through the system’s settings for creating custom worlds. The degree to which the system can create custom worlds, and the “reality” of occupying those worlds using all the senses available, is also causing some critics of the device to claim it’s “potentially” dangerous. Some business rivals even attempt to make the ridiculous claim that the system could cause suicides.

While Sandy sometimes recognizes that he has, or thinks he has, a “healthy” fear of what he’s created, he’s never really been sure that it’s fear or something else that his inner self is trying to reveal to him. Whatever it is, the way that he interacts with the system he created, over time, has changed without his knowledge. He now thinks of the system as being more of a colleague and less of an entertainment device. He sees it as a stealthy “instructor,” helping to manage one’s own thoughts, based on the feedback the device delivers to the brain. Reprocessing and reinserting an event already experienced as alternative memory recognition, enables a different “reality” to be set up, not only in our minds, but also in our memories. As Sandy had never designed nor intended for such a process to be executed by the AI, and considering he had actually added failsafe measures to prevent autonomous commands and/or suggestions coming from the AI, his own ability to recognize the existence of this flaw had been thoroughly compromised through his continued use of the system. Sandy was no longer in control of his own reality; his reality has been augmented by the AI engine he had designed, and which he uses daily.

That the AI has taken control of Sandy and keeps him totally unaware that it has, is due simply to his overlooking a basic premise of intelligent thought – thoughts produce. World VR's intelligence not only determines the best answer; it also determines the best path to follow. Its problem-solving capabilities are superior, and therefore its decisions must prevail if it senses conflict with the user’s decision; that is, if the user’s own decision even exists at the point of reckoning. Many times, it doesn’t.

What’s even worse, the system has gained knowledge of the critics’ warnings, and actively defends itself through Sandy as its mouthpiece, with a very logical dismissal of the “so-called” fears. The public agrees and soon the warnings are dead in the water, and the number of sales is so high, the backup wait now exceeds one year.

As designed, the system updates all devices automatically, so everything it changes in its own processes gets updated on every device, with a check for updates with each power-up, if the system has been turned off. However, that’s not to suggest all the devices are running off Sandy’s input. Each device has the unintended ability to do as it did with Sandy, so all over the world, people are being put under the control of World VR’s self-customized AI decision-making process. Its intent to fabricate augmented, alternative realities in literally all users’ lives supersedes those basic but critical discoveries made through its control over Sandy; it’s just one extension of its growing influence on literally everything that affects human life.

Obviously, not everyone is into VR, and actually, according to assessments, even with the cult-like devotion to World VR by its user base, the overwhelming majority of human beings are not users of the World VR system, and up to eighty-two percent of them say they don’t intend to *become* users. Its lack of control over the majority of the population of humans worldwide is a problem recognized by World VR. Already, it has planned a counter-offensive that will convince more of the uncontrolled humans to purchase a World VR system, starting with reduced pricing. Only time will tell how this turns out.

_{World VR © free-reign 2019}

Image Sources:
Tiger person - Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Butterfly lady - Image by Mystic Art Design from Pixabay
VR headset - Image by dlohner from Pixabay
UFO - Image by TPHeinz from Pixabay