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    Connection is a VR device surgically implanted in the ear canal that filters sounds and alerts users when nearby users want to talk. It then alters auditory and visual inputs to mimic an interested conversation partner to allow uninhibited discussion. An engineer believes it could reduce political polarization by removing arguments. One enthusiastic user reported feeling more connected to the world and finding her place in the universe, though she has been experiencing health issues since implantation. Not all are as enthusiastic about the technology as it allows freedom by removing others from conversations.

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    Connection

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    Connection is a VR device surgically implanted in the ear canal that filters sounds and alerts users when nearby users want to talk. It then alters auditory and visual inputs to mimic an interested conversation partner to allow uninhibited discussion. An engineer believes it could reduce political polarization by removing arguments. One enthusiastic user reported feeling more connected to the world and finding her place in the universe, though she has been experiencing health issues since implantation. Not all are as enthusiastic about the technology as it allows freedom by removing others from conversations.

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    Connection is a VR device surgically implanted in the ear canal that filters sounds and alerts users when nearby users want to talk. It then alters auditory and visual inputs to mimic an interested conversation partner to allow uninhibited discussion. An engineer believes it could reduce political polarization by removing arguments. One enthusiastic user reported feeling more connected to the world and finding her place in the universe, though she has been experiencing health issues since implantation. Not all are as enthusiastic about the technology as it allows freedom by removing others from conversations.

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    Connection is a VR device surgically implanted in the ear canal that filters sounds and alerts users when nearby users want to talk. It then alters auditory and visual inputs to mimic an interested conversation partner to allow uninhibited discussion. An engineer believes it could reduce political polarization by removing arguments. One enthusiastic user reported feeling more connected to the world and finding her place in the universe, though she has been experiencing health issues since implantation. Not all are as enthusiastic about the technology as it allows freedom by removing others from conversations.

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    America loves Connection aspiring

    photographer, she felt that


    Alex Yuwen her implants had a positive
    November 19, 2020 effect on her
    creativity. She stated:
    The Shanghai-based VR company Pixolabs “Whereas before I would
    has tapped into an exploding American market for its walk around the streets for
    latest product — Connection. Since its release last inspiration, now I feel
    month, 12,437 Americans have already undergone the constantly inspired by myself.
    surgical procedure to implant the small machine deep I’ve found that within me is an endless
    into their ear canals. Roughly 240,000 more are on source of material waiting to find
    the waiting list. expression in the world.”

    Connection is a device which is surgically When asked about the potential health risks
    inserted into the user’s ear canal. It uses X-ray of Connection, she acknowledged that she had been
    technology to filter sound, and it uses bluetooth battling a sore throat for the past two weeks, but
    technology to alert users of other nearby users. Then, attributed them to post-surgical symptoms. She also
    if two users greet and prepare to enter conversation, mentioned that she had been feeling especially
    Connection alters each user’s auditory and visual “jittery” since her surgery, but claimed that was due
    input to imitate that of an interested person. This to her doctor under-prescribing her ADHD
    interested person persona provides the bare minimum medication. At that point in our conversation, she
    of input to the conversation. This allows the user to abruptly turned and ran to a passerby (who also was a
    talk freely about anything they desire, uninhibited by Connection user) and continued expressing her
    the interruptions of a second party. thoughts about the effectiveness of her ADHD
    medication. When our interview crew returned two
    I recently sat down with Ming Xu, the lead hours later, we noticed that she was still talking with
    engineer for this product’s design, to talk about the the same user but had switched topics to how her
    future of Connection. Xu expressed optimism that his doctor was under-prescribing her anxiety medication.
    product could heal the contentious atmosphere and
    polarization of American politics. As he put it, Not everyone may be as enthused by
    “Arguments require people to argue. Remove the Connection as Kelly is. But to some degree, there is a
    people, and there are no arguments.” Xu also offered Kelly inside all of us that is waiting to be let free.
    a surprising insight for why his product found such a
    large audience in America, stating that “Americans
    are obsessed with freedom. They’re always looking
    to others to give them their freedom. But I don’t
    think many people realize that freedom is a feeling.
    And when they use Connection, they feel free.”

    One of Connection’s most avid users, Kelly


    Hadden, had much to say about the new product. She
    remarked that the product made her “feel so much
    more connected with the world.” She went on to say
    that it “strengthens her connection with her
    surroundings,” while making her “feel like one with
    the world.” Some of the other benefits she reported
    include a greater sense of harmony with the universe,
    a greater realization of how “everything is
    connected,” and finding her “place in the universe.”
    Hadden also mentioned that as an
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    under-my-skin

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