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Hear everything, for the first time
It is in the same week that a video appears on YouTube in which you can see how 40-year-old Joanne Milne, born deaf, reacts when her hearing implants are tested for the first time. The days of the week are mentioned, the months of the year, her own voice, she hears everything, for the first time, her mother films a sobbing daughter. She hears birds twittering , a beautiful image in this day and age.
The virtual future announces that it has bought Oculus . bahamas mobile phone number list Oculus developed a very large ski goggle with headphones. Images can be projected on the inside. Roller coasters, waterfalls, battlefields, and if you move your head, your vision changes too. Facebook paid two billion for it, that is how much it believes in the virtual future. On YouTube you can see impressive examples of falling, startled, screaming and hysterical people as soon as they watch a scary video with their goggles on. It is the paradox of virtual reality: it is anything but reality.
Everything is filled
In the Muzieum you can experience what happens when the functioning of a sense is taken away from you. You start to make more intensive use of all your other senses. You create images. The couch is brown. Why? The imagination is working overtime. The Oculus glasses do the exact opposite; the imagination is not given a chance, everything is filled in, every pixel, every frequency.
Everything in Muzieum is reality, and the visitor creates his own images. Oculus does exactly the opposite. Nothing is real, everything is provided. Two billion for Oculus. Muzieum receives no subsidy and is dependent on sponsors. Something is wrong somewhere.
This column was also published in Het Financieele Dagblad.