Virtual reality is extremely powerful in this stage. It's mental, but with powerful killswitches to prevent mind hacking. It's vast, being able to simulate near infinite amounts of NPCs, worlds, timelines, hell entire multiverses near instantaneously. Generation becomes so sophisticated through taking mental scans of all players and creating to subatomic detail the structure of the world and near limitless amounts of others.
To say it in short, anything you could do in, say, the Doctor Who universe given control over a TARDIS and Christian God levels of control is possible in virtual reality. The only limitation with future travel, however, is that there is no one future, as even the simplicity of human choice multiplied by billions fucks even the strongest computers up the north mountain.
Even memories can be altered here. Though all memories are returned upon exiting, and there are ways to pick and choose which VR memories remain with you, one can live for eternities in real life seconds, alone or with thousands if not millions of other players/AI, in worlds that can either be as outlandish as the mind can imagine or even near-exact replicas of real life.
How does this effect society? How does the government regulate VR so that users don't waste away their lives in simulated realities of their own choosing? How does the internet change when entire subcommunities are building universes in seconds? In fact, how does real life change when simulations are so terrifyingly accurate that you can predict (one way) how tomorrow goes down? What other unintended side effects pop up as a result of this?
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