Doubletake

Doubletake


The Experience Machines, Part One

July 28, 2023

About three years ago Stewart Freeman went online, into virtual reality, to meet girls. Instead he found Christ through a California church called Cornerstone, one of a handful of ministries trying to preach the Gospel in a new digital world called the “metaverse.” Mark Zuckerberg predicts that within a few years a billion people will be in the metaverse–but at what cost?


It’s part one of our two-part series exploring the implications of technology that shapes our perception of the world around us.


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Short Story “Pygmalion’s Spectacles” by Stanley G. Weinbaum, produced by The MixVR