here I sit...

[miriam_e]

Here I sit in darkened room, facing a glowing screen and surrounded by trance thud and sparkle... aaaah, beautiful music energises the core of my being. Here I sit, groping my way toward a glorious future borne on the backs of those geniuses who labor for love of knowledge... better beings than I, by far. Here I sit trying to help in some small way... here in my darkened room before a glowing portal immersed in cascades of trance... beautiful music. Here I sit, illuminating, painfully and slowly, corners of the wondrous architecture, intricate and self-evolving under clever hands guided by many scintillating minds. Surely it is not far now... will I see? Will I feel? Will I live? and live... and live... and live? and grow... and learn... and love? Will this be the time? So many ones, better than I, have passed before, the gift denied. Will we be the ones who hold it? Born to us in the hands of those shining ones -- those who labor for love of knowledge. Here I sit in dark comfort, daylight outside, but here I sit in my enfolding burrow... words dribble from crawling cursor. Here I sit. I wait... building and learning while I wait, hoping I have time. Having tasted the pale shadow of godlike realities in the worlds I visit while I sit here... here I sit wanting more... the hunger... the ache... appalled at the thought that it could be snatched away at the last moment... like so many before... many before... better people than I. They could not even hope. At least I can have the hope. So here I sit in my warm dark room, hoping, bathed in music and the glow from the strange window before me -- window to many worlds. Here I sit... hoping that soon I'll not be here, nor sitting, not in light or dark... hoping to be a god among gods with endless worlds of my own creating... with endless time for my living... endless knowledge for my exploring... Here I sit... learning... creating... feeling... hoping... waiting... Here I sit

Comments

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

One of the problems of trying to do this with conventional film is that 2 camera angles doubles the size of the files. Multiple preset viewpoints can be implemented in VR with almost no increase in filesize. It is better than that though. In VR the user is free to wander at will and even record their own viewpoints.

In fact I expect this will be a source of outlet for aficionados of VR shows. I can imagine that people will post online their own viewpoint camera angles of particular shows, and that some particularly skilled people will become so good at it that they will become recognised as especially brilliant directors, eventually gaining employment in future productions.

This discussion has prompted me to post online most of the piece from which I cut that example paragraph earlier about sitting back and watching a VR story.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

oops... didn't give the link: http://werple.net.au/~miriam/VR-fiction2.html