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Until recently I had no idea that game engines are basically eating the world. Urban planning, architecture, automotive engineering firms, live music and events, filmmaking, etc. have all shifted a lot of their workflows/design processes to Unreal Engine and Unity

The Mandalorian and The Lion King were shot almost exclusively using these tools

Even Hong Kong International Airport uses a "digital twin" built on Unity to simulate changes in passenger volume

The popularity of Simulation Theory in certain circles starts to make a lot of sense when you think about how much of Reality is now being created by game design software

The Choose Your Character meme on TikTok seems like a surface level symptom of game engines eating the world. We come to understand our selves as roleplaying in simulated environments. Here& #39;s one example of literally billions

The legal name requirement on FB & co. was an attempt at maintaining a clear distinction between game worlds and real worlds, but this dichotomy didn& #39;t hold up. Especially now that so many cultural events are Mixed Reality, complete with virtual fans and ~actual~ NPCs

The increasingly blurry boundary between games and life has me thinking about this graphic about Western vs. Eastern conceptions of Playing, from & #39;The Future of Ritual& #39;. I think digitally mediated reality is forcing us into a mode that feels a lot more like Maya-lila

Behavioral econ is basically the policy layer of the game-engines-eating-reality stack, providing nudges and incentives and levels for citizens to navigate. Not to mention the CCP& #39;s social credit system

What& #39;s going on in gaming seems like the virtual version of 13 colonies becoming a federation of states. Tim Sweeney (CEO of Epic) talks about the importance of linking isolated systems together, e pluribus unum style

I wonder who are the Hamiltons/Jeffersons of these new worlds

I want to ask gpt-3 Walt Disney what he makes of the game industry& #39;s merger with reality. A theme park piped to every living room. "Media" companies become full-stack lifestyle brands—you don& #39;t just consume the characters or play with their action figures, you *become* them

I feel like "gaming" is already starting to become an anachronistic category, a throwback to the days when these simulation machines were confined to the world of entertainment

this is an actual slide from an actual geopolitical strategy consulting deck

https://info-gap.technion.ac.il/files/2018/06/milo027slides.pdf">https://info-gap.technion.ac.il/files/201...

a company called 51 World created digital twins of Shanghai and Singapore, powered by Unreal Engine. city planners are using these SimCities to test ideas before they’re actually constructed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOJZhsNtB6g">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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