How Advertisers Serve Ads While You Sleep: Dream Implantation

[kestrell]

Kes: A couple of days ago, I made what I thought was a joke about this when I posted how Facebook and Oculis were going to be delivering advertising to users's XR headset, but it turns out that yes, advertisers are actually planning on delivering ads to people in their sleep.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a36719140/sleep-ads-dream-implantation/

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

WTF WTF What the actual fucking fuck!

[kestrell]

Okay, technically, if you read the articles, dream incubation influences people to dream about the product by delivering the influencing commercials *before* the person actually falls asleep, but still, it is close enough for some MIT cognitive scientists to write a letter warning of the possible negative effects.