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Manifest Your Reality in XR

You create your own reality with your mind.

Remember to protect it from others projecting their reality into you.

Consider how you have been conditioned.

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You have been conditioned to believe that everything that happens is so random and unpredictable. Think about what your mind wants and create what you envision. There are incredible things that you can do, and the usual person stopping you, is you.

I can say with 100% certainty that this reality is NOT what we are led to believe it is. If you don't believe me, truly free your mind and listen to someone who has a different world view than you do.

How can XR experiences allow the individual to manifest what they want to experience? How can developers, designers, and artists plan for such immersive experiences?

Keep these five areas in mind when you are manifesting in your extended reality: Reflection, Unlearning, Limitations, User Experience, and Immersion.

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Reflection

Notice how many different ways people respond to experiences, influences, events, stimuli, and feedback. All of these situations involve their projected reality into you.

Now take a look at how many different ways YOU respond to experiences, influences, events, stimuli, and feedback. Are you determining your own reality or living someone else's projected reality?

It is very simple. You see your reality as a reflection of yourself.

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With any XR experience, a different reality is being projected into you at any given point. Test it out for yourself. Ask someone about how they are feeling and notice how your mood may or may not be impacted by the reply. Observe how a significant amount of our extended reality is a merely projection of who we are at any given point. When things don't work out, it seems like everything doesn't work out. One issue causes another and so forth. When things line up, we feel unstoppable and positive experiences continue to find us. Do we have the presence of mind to stop and make any adjustments with what we are projecting into our extended reality?

Often times, individuals project how they are feeling, what they are thinking, and who they are onto someone else without even realizing it. This becomes quite important to keep in mind when observing someone who is manifesting their reality. Extended reality has many opportunities where a person’s world view, stances, and perspectives can be easily integrated into an experience without the user even realizing it. Their bias, decisions, and choices might guide users to an outcome or reality that the creator of the experience is expecting or desiring.

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With optimized and realistic XR experiences, remember to provide some type of input for the user at the beginning of the experience. A few examples include the calibration of a user's wingspan for a VR experience, determining the orientation of a user's device, or even offering a pre-test for the user's baseline knowledge for learning a new topic. For designers and developers, remember that your craft might want to provide a way for an individual to share some input prior to joining an experience. Some examples of this would be:

VR body calibration
operating system information
browser settings
room calibration,
or pretests so they have a baseline to start.

These inputs can give the experience some insights about the user and their expectations for the experience.

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Each time a user provides such an input, it will allow the XR experience to adapt to the user to provide an optimal experience. You might have frequently seen this when apps ask you to share your preferences to provide tailored experiences for you. With this information in mind, an experience can adapt to the user in very clever ways. Plan several steps ahead, and there can be very subtle ways that one can manifest an incredible reality.

Identify the reality that you are projecting to others because they will be mere reflections of you.

Unlearning

With tailored XR experiences, applications have many incentives for you to stay on their platform by showing you recommended content. As you continue to engage with, like, and comment on these experiences, the XR experience will share more with you. You can very quickly find that you will be surrounded with like-minded experiences.

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‍STOP.

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Extended reality is an incredible medium to challenge everything that you've ever learned or been indoctrinated with. What is there to be afraid of? Would you rather live in a fabricated reality or peer into what actual reality could be? Take the time to unlearn and encourage the user to unlearn before preceding.

So many believe some ideas and thoughts that have been ingrained in their minds for decades. Breaking through that indoctrination can be a lot of fun, freeing, and quite the journey. Lovely Ponderings is an ongoing questions series that encourages users to question their actual reality as they engage with their extended reality. You will see that everything about our realm and extended reality needs to be questioned. Enjoy some of them since you never know what your mind might surprise you with.

Ignore everything else around you and reconnect with yourself and your incredible abilities. Ignore the media, social media, talking heads, their accolades, the degrees, the research, and the science. Don't be fooled by the actors that are walking around you in plain sight. It might surprise you how freeing it will be to ignore it all and focus on you. And only you.

Your mind is exceptionally powerful and you can manifest a beautiful reality.

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With an exponential increase in XR experiences, be aware of the projected reality that others have for you. A great opportunity for unlearning is when the user makes the transition from a 2D experience to a 3D one. Sometimes individuals will want to port everything that they see in a 2D world or their actual reality into an immersive VR or AR experience. As users move from a 2D experience to the 3D experience, there are many times that skills or actions may not translate well in between the mediums. It's a great opportunity to unlearn how we might interact or engage with objects or users within an XR experience. When users are going through a brand new experience, they might need to get used to their controls, options, features, or abilities.

Make sure to develop a clear and concise walkthrough that showcases what an XR experience can offer.

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Think about features such as the undo button, switching tools, or teleporting that users are able to do in a digital space compared to what they might have been able to do in the past. Embrace the time period that users have to unlearn something and give them the time and space to figure things out at their own pace. There will be all sorts of feedback, suggestions, and commentary during this unlearning phase. Ignore it all and focus on manifesting the reality that you want to see. Ignore everything else around you and reconnect with yourself and your incredible abilities.

Certain expectations might prevent us from discovering something new on our own. Keep unlearning about our extended reality. It'll be the best thing you've ever done.

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Limitations

This is the most intriguing area of them all. We are limited by our mind and it’s important to free our mind. Free our mind from all sorts of controls that have been placed on us since birth. When we try to focus things that brings us joy, areas of strength, or anything that truly drives us, then we can overcome our own limitations of the mind. Frequently, limitations from one's reality can be projected into someone else's XR experience.

With many situations in life, our mind is the first hurdle that we have to overcome. Free your mind to manifest so many incredible things in your extended reality. For individuals who manifest their desired reality, consider how much control they have over their own minds instead of letting fear or other lower vibrational emotions determine their reality.

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When it comes to a skill or ability, how often do you see people practicing it, refining it, thinking about it, or reviewing it?

They put their mind to creating the reality that they want.

They eat, sleep, breathe, and manifest the extended reality experience that they want.

They practice, prepare, and achieve it through their own force of will.

Others get convinced to do it for an even bigger purpose.

There's that old saying,

‍"if you don’t build your dream, then someone will pay you to build theirs."

‍Think long and deep about this reality. What do you want to manifest? What do you want to wake up to? What is holding you back? What are you in search of? You’ve been in an extended reality for your entire life. New buzz words (matrix, simulation, metaverse, etc.) will come and go to describe it, but don't let everyone fool you into thinking that this is a brand new reality that you're about to miss out on.

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Will you be able to break free?

Do you want to break free?

Are you afraid to break free?

Once you break free of your mind's limitations, you will be able to harness, refine, and utilize your legendary abilities to manifest anything that you want in your reality.

For XR designers and developers, do not project your own limitations to someone else's reality. Think a few steps ahead to add interactions into your experience that an individual might consider. It might surprise you how users engage with your interactions. Don't limit it to what you can do in your actual 3D reality.

AR and VR have incredible potential, and remember to remove your own limitations in this medium.

One great question to ask when about the possibilities of an interaction is: "why not?" Once we overcome the limitations that we might place on ourselves and project others, then we can create and manifest an incredible reality. Just because someone else has completed an experience, that does not mean that you can’t try something different or something new.

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User Experience

Users continue to be attracted to novel experiences that might challenge their limitations, give them a new perspective, or break them free of their ways of thinking. With any user experience, give them brief guidance on how to interact with the world before stepping back so they can explore. There are quite a few situations where providing limitations might be beneficial. For example, if someone wants to learn a skill, make sure to give them opportunities to make mistakes and recover from the. Give them the freedom to explore and be curious. Encourage them to try out different gestures or motion that allow the experience to adapt to them.

Any experience should embrace a person unlearning something while providing an input opportunities for users, so they can understand how their reality adapted based on their intentions.

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One exceptional thing about augmented reality or virtual reality is that people may have alternate modes of inputs. These could be controllers, sensors, headsets, speech recognition, facial recognition, or other accessories that help them engage with an experience instead of a flat screen. It can help them articulate their intentions to manifest a desired reality. Users could transform a controller into a paintbrush, a complex tool, or many other objects that are only limited by their imagination.

Designers and developers can embrace their own imaginations to create experiences that have never been seen before.

One type of input that show great potential is speech recognition. Microphones are present in so many different devices nowadays. With strong speech recognition services, users will be able to engage with experiences in a more conversational manner. Chat bots can simulate a realistic dialogue that can engage with users and adapt an experience around them. Free your mind of its prison and manifest some of the most incredible experiences that can be created in XR.

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Immersion

This is the most important step to manifesting your reality. Think about it. Be within it. Visualize it. Become immersed within it. Your mind is so exceptional, beautiful, and powerful once you free it and unlearn EVERYTHING you've ever known about actual reality.

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Experiences truly stand out if they can adapt to a user. They become so powerful when the user realizes that they are in for an incredible adventure. Your experiences can and will fascinate when you focus on what brings you joy. Remember, reality is just a reflection of you.

The controls can be simple or complex based on what you want to accomplish. The world needs to be beautiful, stunning, and detailed TO YOU. The music has to be aligned with what YOU ENJOY. The haptic feedback should be fantastic and well-positioned.

In this extended reality, YOU are the subject matter expert and YOU bring life to your experiences. Consider how you use your words, take your actions, and share your perspectives.

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In XR, words are specific with what a user needs to do: tap, swipe, click, push, press, pull, turn, and so forth. Words have meaning and choose them carefully for your experiences and life.

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Take a look at many social media creators who keep making content until they become who they want to be. That is manifesting their reality. With a AR and VR experiences, you can create something similar where you can practice and refine a skill set. Hours upon hours of training can be done in a experience long before they ever get to actual reality, By that point, they are well trained for their experiences.

Common manifestations include becoming someone NOT becoming someone or NOT being not able to do something. They confirmed their reality with just their words alone.

Remember how important your words are since it will shape your actual reality.

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Some stay immersed in their reality through feedback, social media, emails, phone calls, videos, and many other ways. Write it down. Type it out.

‍Be intentional, immersed, and present.

Don’t be afraid to test, to create, or to try different things in extended reality. Your passion, your skill, and your ability will continue to shine through despite all of the naysayers, the critics, and the backseat drivers who will tell you how and why it will not be successful. Ignore it all and focus on YOU.

Identify what drives you in life. When you can discern actual reality from a fabricated or digital reality, then you can create some incredible things.

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Remember that you’re incredibly powerful and you can manifest your reality. Protect your beautiful mind from realities that others want to project into you. So many will try to tell a vision and convince you to be afraid of things that don't exist. Ignore it all and focus on manifesting your reality.