Chapter 185: VR Sex
"What about fabrication?" Jack asked Rina.
"I made the displays for that headset using the technique Naoko suggested," she replied. "It’s slow, mainly because even a Cerebras has trouble chewing through the massive amount of data needed to drive the process."
Even if he could mass produce VR headset displays using Genesis Heart, he would not. Too much risk of someone figuring out that we don’t have any fabrication equipment.
"But," she continued, "I’ve been working on a fabricator that can make the displays. We’ll need to create parts of that using Genesis Heart, but once it’s complete, then we can make the chips for real. No magic funny business to get us in trouble."
"That’s great!" Then, handing her back the VR headset he was holding, he said, "And we can start by making this version. That way we can show incremental improvements instead of shocking the world with a drastic advancement."
"Well, even this is a drastic improvement. But I see your point. It’s not such a huge leap forward that people will get suspicious and start accusing us of working for aliens or something."
"By the way, what software did you use to generate that nature scene? It was ultra-realistic."
"There’s already software out there that can generate realistic nature scenes; it’s just that consumer hardware can’t support the software at higher resolutions. What you saw was something I ported to run on a Cerebras."
"So, not something we can sell to the public."
"No, not that. I’ve been working with Jeeves to expand the simulation spec file format into a full VR protocol. And I’m working with Madison to train an A.I. model to do the rendering based on input from that protocol."