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PainPass: Curated Sensory Experiences
A tiered subscription offering increasingly customized and extreme sensory experiences, including pain simulation, within VR. Levels are gated by demonstrating ethical understanding and psychological stability via a virtual therapist and moral assessment simulations.

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In virtual reality, BCI users experience simulated pain signals based on pre-programmed emotional vocabularies.
Extrapolated from Linguists Point to Expressions of Pain as a Possible Universal Language - Scientific American

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