4 Quotes Tagged: virtual-reality

Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it?

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.

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.

– Here, take this. It'll give you a boost.
– You spent 90 gold on this??
– 90 gold is nothing when you're the baddest bitch in the virtual universe.