In this network R1RA finds its physical expression and thus becomes a simulated reality meaning it becomes ”to a degree indistinguishable from true reality” or virtual reality. The purpose of this technological setup is to retrain visual expectations in humans by coordinating an intentional condensing of circumstances of a rhythmic simultaneity of private and social visual expectations of the collectively perceived reality.

The wearables shoot first-person gaze photos each time participants blink simultaneously and reveal the imagery none of them would have seen otherwise on screens of their wearables. Thus the network persistently substitudes their expectations of the external world which accumulate density through their rhythmic alignment to evolve into a distinguishable reality.

The network captures and makes them persistently reoccur as participants' expectations of the external world, so that overtime they become consciously detected, accumulate their density through their rhythmic alignment to evolve into a distinguishable reality.

– Why is it not videos but photos that cameras make?

– The choice of a static image over a motion recording responds to the brievity of a regular blink. This network is the first stage of R1RA prototype. By “multiplying” the unseen reality of its users, it gives “weight” to the “borders” of external world. By showing it to the users – it allows them to “re-affirm their existence”. Gradually “pushing out” natural expectations by the growing quantitative density, changing the rhythm of private formulation, which increases the proximity of reaching at a qualitatively new peak of simultaneity.
In the spirit of experiments on quantum entanglement , the main experiment will 35 involve durational use of an AR version of the glasses in an unpopulated location. The minimization of the amount of agents of the external world per distance will create circumstances under which the participants circulate a selected type of expectations and generate new perceptions which “will evolve” into R1RA.

An example of the technologically advanced implementation of this project could be smart contact lenses recording everything their wearer sees and replays it on a screen inside their eye lids. Such lenses are rumoured to appear on market under Samsung’s 2014 patent called “Gear Blink”. Their purpose is to overcome the limitations in image quality of AR glasses. While it is unknown if or when they will appear on the consumer market, it allows us time to speculate about the implications of their durational use.

In even further scaling up, such environment can potentially be created with the use of TMS neuroimaging decoding technology developed by researchers of UC Berkeley University and Tokyo University. Similarly to Ai machine learning and more related technology of e-telepathy, its protocol is based on collecting descriptive feedback about what a subject is viewing and mapping associations onto actively reacting brain regions. The essential difference of this method to AR lenses would be in indistinguishably realistic quality of visual experience. The images of expectations would be embedded directly into the “mind’s eye”. This could potentially mean, witnessing a real rather than a metaphorical network’s effect on visual perception.

Scenarios involve subjects each wearing the glasses - either in same or different location, either aware or unaware of each other. Once they simultaneously blink within a range of 0.4 seconds - the cameras of all the subjects shoot photos from first person’s gaze, forward them to their mini displays and to their Instagram or Snapchat which are in turn used to collect the data about temporal, location and visual correlations and from there to database website which provides spec to track and analyse the received information.

– Aren’t there other ways to become enhance sensitivity to the borders of the perceived worlds?

– Somewhat similar abilities to those described in the R1RA scenario, are being achieved by a famous cyborg Moon Ribas, whose electronic implant gives him the ability to feel the Earth's seismic activity. The method of external augmentation doesn’t align with my understanding of the holistic principles of the rearrangement of factors affecting our perceptual capabilities and feels somewhat outdated once cross-examined with a prospect of self-sufficient forms of interaction with the realities we share. At the same time, such attempts to enhance perception have no choice but to be mechanic because they choose to contribute to the “today” where they impact a single agent of reality rather than in a fantasised metacognitive utopia. The example for popularization they are set for, is empowering in the face of having to contest with the artificial intelligence. From the perspective of R1RA, limitations into social expectations about flexibility of perception seem to be embedded.

– Does the location of participants matter? Or is this about quantum-like entanglement?

The Zone - a phantasmagoric space depicted by Andrey Tarkovsky in his 1979 movie Stalker, has many interpretations. One is that it’s a metaphor for the postulates of life where causes and effects of events are apparent by being temporally condensed and thus sensorially exaggerated. Both mental and physical events have equal densities which inter-flick in such close proximity that one can hear the thoughts of another. The temporal bending of the space makes perceived distance from point A to point B impossible to determine and imaginings instantaneously imprint in physical reality. If these features of the Zone are physical translations of the simple rules of life, they are irresistibly reminiscent of superposition principle of quantum mechanics. In this sense, the Zone reminds me of R1RA. The multiplicity of particles is orchestrated by a single wave function (rhythm in R1RA) which allows quantum entanglement to happen. It then by multiplication can form new wave functions and result into a Hilbert space (R1RA). It’s as if the Zone is a colide of gradations of perceived natural realities similar to R1RA but existing outside space and time, rather than racing to become like R1RA does.

Experimenting with simultaneity of blinks in relation to location

Attend to experimental protocols which allow to collect data about the amount and frequency of simultaneous blinks in relation to distance between the participants:
Participants in different locations (precise location TBD) which at this point are settled by available arrangements rather than metaphoric ratio overlays of the amount of participants and their distance: (e.g. equal amount of participants per each highly populated cities.

– Wouldn’t it make sense to create this network in a virtual reality?

– The avoidance of VR technology is deliberate. In the scenario of R1RA, virtual worlds are elements equal to natural illusions. Hence, embedding R1RA into fraction of the external world which “is” its equal - would contradict its logic and limit public understanding of it. It is detrimental for the network to be experienced within our “habitual” environment which consists of the whole spectrum of gradations. “Habitual” experience of external world is fragmented and the purpose of the network to amplify not its single element but the borders between all of the gradations.

Ongoing developments