The first million words are the hardest.
Francis HamitTags: high-tech virtual-reality
In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.
Mark CantrellTags: philosophy science-fiction virtual-reality
The fact that all of this was happening in virtual space made no difference. Being virtually killed by virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.
Douglas AdamsTags: virtual-reality
Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it?
William GibsonTags: dirt virtual-reality performance-art
Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.
Douglas AdamsTags: reality death virtual-reality defeat-and-attitude laser
It could always all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in part because what would be the point of doing anything else? When the fake behaved exactly like the real, why treat it as anything different? You gave it the benefit of the doubt, until something proved otherwise.
Iain M. BanksTags: doubt reality scepticism virtual-reality
Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.
Jonathan GottschallTags: stories fiction gaming virtual-reality
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