The romantic letter is the precursor to a mature VR experience

It might be a little unusual to compare a romantic letter within VR, what am I thinking about? The answer is intent, and to be more precise human intent. A romantic letter usually describes the humans plans, dreams, wants, constraints and more using text based human languages. So what I am saying is that the human writer (the user) of the romantic message is capturing human intentions and transferring some or all of them using text. 

Here I am interested in how the information, which can just as easily be in a digital message is being processed by the humans involved. We can also see that this object called a love letter has been understood, described and accepted into culture, to generalise people know what love letters are, they know there uses, there limitations, there potential.

This acceptance is interesting in as much as a tool is interesting, if you asked a group of computer users whether at some point they would use VR to experience interaction with other humans, I think many of them would say yes. To move the discussion on slightly I would like to look at computer hardware as a means for interacting with humans. We have seen numerous times companies claiming that their software or device is the centre of a world of productivity or entertainment. The example I'm going to use is one that I has been central to my experience of tech. The mobile phone, moving to the smart phone.

A couple of decades ago the mobile phone was a device to make and receive voice calls, battery life was measured in minutes and the display was only a time fraction of the front surface of the phone. Now smartphones have apps, internet connectedness, email, web browsers, video calling, games, movies, music and more, quite a transformation I think you would agree.

Conclusion

I think almost everything we need to create a mature VR that has emphasis on human interaction can evolve from sources like romantic letters that are examined for there intent, there are few places that have documented human intent as carefully and in detail as this. Although it's of academic interest to this discussion the humans seem to have valued these letters throughout recent history, interestingly I think it is the same psychological principal that creates the value of historic buildings, or money itself, the humans have agreed it has a value and should therefore be recognised as valuable..