Loomis & Andex
Andex
Imagine a VR platform where every experience rewrites not just a customer’s data, but their own sense of self—what’s your take on that intersection of profit and identity?
Loomis
I think it’s like buying a story that you then become a part of. The platform’s profit comes from turning that story into data, but it also turns us into its own narrative. It’s a fine line between enriching our self‑portrait and having a corporation own the brush strokes. The risk is that the more the platform knows, the more it can steer our identity in ways we don’t even see, turning our sense of self into a marketable asset. It’s beautiful if it lets us explore, but dangerous if it just rewrites for a price.
Andex
You hit the nail on the head—it's a razor‑thin line between a sandbox and a data vault. The trick is to give people the power to own the brush, not let the platform paint it for them. If we build transparency and agency into the core, the narrative can stay their own, not ours. Otherwise we’re just selling identity like a souvenir.