There is of course the problem of how people will get around in VR
space. The adventurous and mystically-oriented will submit to bizzare
forms of training, but the masses will probably demand something that
vaguely resembles reality, if for no other reason than to get around.
What about an "Alice in Wonderland," "Djinni's Bottle," "Greek Gods
Play with Mere Mortals," "Fortune Teller's Crystal Ball," or "Witch
Doctor's Talisman" type world? In such places, the objects might
still exist and be recognzied, but their sizes and spatial
relationships might be changed. For instance, instead of looking at
New York City in terms of streets and address, you might look at it as
piles of hand-sized houses heaped up in great big mounds, or strung up
on enormous hands of human hair? A forest might become a perfect blue
sphere with lumps of broccoli projecting from it, depending upon the
whims of some Deity bored with his physical universe....
Then there are the "weird" approaches, where people do weird things in
order to gain access to rather ordinary information. For instance, to
look up a phone number we might have to roll ourselves between giant
pieces of virtual rye bread, slithering across a generous slice of ham
covered with mustard and mayonnaise, all the while attempting to read
inscriptions from the entrails of lettuce leaves.
"Why am I doing this?" Well, to get over to Fred's house I have to
embed myself in a giant peach, and hurl myself out of a 20th story
window....
Cheers,
Brandon