In a near-future Manchester, people access shared virtual realities by putting colored feathers in their mouths. Different feathers create different shared experiences, from pleasant to lethal. People and objects can be lost between Vurt-worlds and reality, creating a drug culture where the boundaries between real and virtual dissolve completely.
Relevant to VR addiction, shared virtual spaces, the blurring of reality and simulation, and drug culture parallels in technology use.
Domains: Virtual Reality and SimulationSocial Engineering and Psychology
Scenario Types: Thought experiment / What-if
Outcomes: Ambiguous / MixedDystopian