{"id":493640,"date":"2022-02-01T09:39:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=232749"},"modified":"2022-02-01T09:39:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:39:32","slug":"the-perils-and-promises-of-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/01\/the-perils-and-promises-of-virtual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perils and Promises of Virtual Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOnce Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn\u2019t know he was Zhuangzi. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakably Zhuangzi. But he didn\u2019t know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/02\/01\/the-perils-and-promises-of-virtual-reality\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/02\/01\/the-perils-and-promises-of-virtual-reality\/\">The Perils and Promises of Virtual Reality<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/02\/01\/the-perils-and-promises-of-virtual-reality\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOnce Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn\u2019t know he was Zhuangzi. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakably Zhuangzi. But he didn\u2019t know &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495086,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493640\/revisions\/495086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}