The virtual world has always existed, originally in human fantasies. With the advent of writing, he received a fixation already in physical reality. The next step was the advent of cinema, and the last milestone that we have the pleasure of seeing at the present time is computer reality.
Any of us can immerse ourselves in computer virtual reality, if we have the right equipment. It is also not difficult (not yet) to leave the computer virtual reality back to the native physical reality. However, until now, it has not been possible to stably transfer objects of the virtual world to the material world, although such attempts have been made repeatedly.
In 1880, the French artist Pierre Boucher got drunk as hell, which he discovered in the morning captured on photographic plates taken the day before.
In 1885, the Dutchmen Binet and Feret put pressure on a patient's eye and found that the number of hallucinatory images had doubled.
In 1903, the Swiss psychologist Gustav Storring presented a patient with binoculars. The patient's hallucinatory images immediately approached.
In 1910, the Japanese professor Tomokichi Fukarai photographed hieroglyphs imagined by the medium on film.
In 1935, British scientists Adrian and Metius filmed human thought on a movie camera.
In the 1960s American Julu Eisenbadu discovered a patient who could light up a Polaroid film with hallucinatory images on demand.
In the 1980s Russian psychiatrist G.P. Krokhalev mastered the technique of photographing the hallucinations of his patients, which finally proved the possibility of synthesizing objects of the virtual world in the physical world. However, the technique of synthesis was not available in those days.
Photograph of a hallucination of a snake. From the family archive of G.P. Krokhalev
Research was crowned with success almost 30 years later.
In 2012, in the laboratory of synthetic virtual at the Institute of Chemical Transparency named after A.I. academician Butlegerov, 15 molecules of virtual ammonia were obtained for the first time. The work was carried out on the experimental device "Sonya" - the world's first virtual reality synthesizer (SVR), designed here in Russia.
Fine-tuning the device required six long years of painstaking work, but the time was not wasted. At the moment, the SVR "Sonya" of the fourth modification allows you to stably synthesize dreams, turning them into objects of physical reality. With a dream resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels or more, the synthesis is performed qualitatively, with a lower resolution, some deterioration of the obtained sample is observed.
However, the main problem with using Sony is not at all in the design features of the device, but in the dreams themselves. Without dreams, the device is useless: it does not know how to materialize the required objects at the request of the operator. Objects are taken from the dreams of the patient (according to special terminology, the dreamer) and only then, with the help of Sony, are they transferred from virtual reality to physical reality. The object must exist in the virtual, otherwise it simply has nowhere to come from. However, people do not control their dreams, this is the problem.
Cliche leads to the fact that mainly typical sets are synthesized: for male dreamers, these are mostly naked women, for women, flowers or an assortment of fashion boutiques. Such objects are not of great public interest. It is necessary to look for people who see in a dream what is of true value: rare earth metals, plutonium or diamonds, but there are few such unique ones.
And even if a person is discovered who has a store of valuable dreams, even if he voluntarily agreed to become a dreamer, the only one cannot be used indefinitely. Nobody canceled the law of conservation of matter: if an object appears in one reality, then it disappears from another reality. With each new synthesized object, the field of dreams is depleted - until the dreamer stops dreaming altogether.
This explains why, in five years of using Sony, 1039 women, 5 men, 11 bicycle tires, 102 Big Macs, 485 handbags, 739 flower bouquets, and only 230 carats of diamonds and 2 g of rare earth metals were synthesized from virtual reality.
Diamonds mined from virtual reality
Research work continued until 2017, when the laboratory's funding was frozen. The loss of interest on the part of the military-industrial complex was explained by the fact that over the five years of using the SVR, despite the efforts made, it has never been possible to synthesize a new type of weapon of mass destruction.
Forced business trips of the military to undergo examination as dreamers did not give a positive result. Several of the enlisted men, who, according to their commanders, had an overactive imagination, dreamed of nothing but soup kits. The involvement of command and engineering staff did little more: the dreams were somewhat more diverse than those of the rank and file, but no one saw new types of weapons of mass destruction in a dream. Accordingly, such weapons could not be synthesized.
But every cloud has a silver lining - the lack of funding has accelerated Sony's entry into the free market. The developers of the Synthetic Virtual Laboratory registered LLC and the Baibay trademark. Received a license for the extraction of minerals from the virtual.
At present, we have at our disposal 8 copies of the Sonya-4 SVR device with increased productivity. The devices are made on the basis of tomographs, to which special equipment is connected.
Synthesizer of virtual reality "Sonya-4" with the company logo "Baybay"
In connection with entering the market, the principles for providing services for the synthesis of virtual reality to the population have been developed. The main one is the ban on the synthesis of organics. The dreamer cannot control what he dreams of, therefore, blockers with the appropriate settings are installed on all available devices.
Branches of Baybay LLC are opened in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ryazan, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Krasnodar, Astrakhan and Vladivostok. They work around the clock, the device is offered for rent for 8 hours.
Baibay service in Tomsk
To conclude a rental agreement, you must present a passport and a certificate from the narcological dispensary. In accordance with the contract, the dreamer pays a one-time fee of 3000 rubles.
Having finished with the formalities, you lie down in the apparatus and, under the supervision of the technician on duty, fall asleep. Natural sleep is desirable: when using sleeping pills, synthesized objects turn out to be cloudy or with foreign inclusions. If it was not possible to fall asleep, the one-time fee is not refundable.
When you wake up, together with the technician you open the sealed container in which the products of your dreams are synthesized. If the container is empty, then you're out of luck:
β’ either you didn't dream anything,
β’ either dreamed that there was no way to synthesize.
If there is something in the container, then in accordance with the contract, 30% of the synthesized objects belong to the dreamer, and the remaining 70% belong to Baibay LLC, as a premium for the equipment provided. When the number of objects is not divisible in the named proportion, the objects are considered to be owned by the parties under the terms of joint ownership.
In cases where the synthesized object is of no value, it is transferred to the interested party free of charge, and if both parties refuse, it is disposed of. This happens when customers dream of used furniture, canceled bank cards, or sanitary napkins.
But something else happens: the synthesized object turns out to be very, very valuable. Current practice shows that for the most part three types of valuable objects are synthesized in the SVR:
β’ precious metals,
β’ gems,
β’ computer gadgets.
The last point explains the publication of this material on HabrΓ©: those of the readers who sleep and see gadgets of the latest models in a dream are our customers.
Dear IT people, we are happy to synthesize the objects of your desires from virtual reality! The high level of technical education in our country allows us to hope for a decent result.
Dreams are the largest resource base in the world. The day is not far off when SVR will become as familiar a gadget as an iPhone or a 3D printer. Dreamers will no longer have to fall asleep in someone else's office: miniature home devices will appear, the settings of which will be adjusted by the user. What Stanislav Lem dreamed about in Solaris will come true: people will be able to synthesize any of their dreams without restrictions.
Source: habr.com