Jesse Schell | The Cultural Impact of Virtual Reality

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Schell is a video game designer, author and CEO of Schell Games and he joins us for this interesting episode to discuss the present and future of virtual reality and how it will impact humanity. We talk about the difference between tapping 'A' to pull the trigger and having to physically do it in Virtual Reality, where VR is currently at right now and where it will go, the utterly convincing power of VR, how by the end of this century we will have reached the end of humanity and much, much more.

Visit Jesse Schell's website | https://JesseSchell.com

Jesse is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses | https://amazon.com/Art-Game-Design-Lenses-Third

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0:00.0	But what people don't talk about is that by the end of this century we will have likely reached the end of humanity.
0:07.3	And by that I mean we will have conquered death.
0:11.5	I think people don't comprehend the extent to which what it means to be
0:16.2	human is defined by death. The choices that we make moment to moment day to day are all about optimizing our lives
0:26.5	over death given within the constraint of we only have a limited amount of time
0:31.2	death is inevitable for us death is death will be coming and
0:34.8	what does my life mean in the context of death etc that's just what it is to be
0:41.5	human we're going to take it away.
0:44.0	We are going to be creating
0:46.0	digital life forms,
0:48.0	some based on humans, some not based on humans
0:51.0	that really aren't going to die.
0:54.0	I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative
1:01.0	podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most
1:04.4	innovative and creative minds, started movements, built thriving businesses, written
1:08.9	best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.
1:11.8	For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable
1:14.9	Creative.com. This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber.
1:32.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
1:38.0	Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app.
1:44.0	Jesse welcome to the Unmistakable Creative.
1:45.0	Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.
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