VIRTUAL REALITY QUOTES

quotations about virtual reality

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Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

LUCKY PALMER

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Will reality be augmented or virtual or some hybrid of the two? In any case, reality will no longer be the only game in town.

CED KURTZ

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Virtual reality is inherently an interactive medium; therefore, the simple transference of content from sequential media makes little sense. For instance, reading a Herman Melville novel does not become more interesting, engaging, or useful if it is done while wearing a head-mounted display. Watching an Orson Welles film is not enhanced by making the viewer turn their head to follow the action of the film. On the other hand, if the original content is modified for the new medium by adding interactivity, the filmmaker's role of setting the tone and pacing via camera angles, editing, and other techniques is diminished.

WILLIAM R. SHERMAN & ALAN B. CRAIG

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Virtual reality is a medium, a means by which humans can share ideas and experiences.

ALAN B. CRAIG

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There's nobody who works in VR saying, "Oh, I'm bored with this." Everybody comes back.

GABE NEWELL

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Virtual reality is all about democratizing storytelling. It gives people more control over the experience. Instead of trying to force a story upon you, we try and give you this huge playground through which you will create stories that you will then share through this medium.

CURTIS HICKMAN

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Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming.

MARK ZUCKERBERG

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VR will never look real until they learn how to put some dirt in it.

LAURIE ANDERSON

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When anything new comes along, everyone, like a child discovering the world, thinks that they've invented it, but you scratch a little and you find a caveman scratching on a wall is creating virtual reality in a sense. What is new here is that more sophisticated instruments give you the power to do it more easily. Virtual reality is dreams.

MORTON HEILIG

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Virtual reality is the first step in a grand adventure into the landscape of the imagination.

FRANK BIOCCA, TAEYONG KIM, & MARK R. LEVY

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The idea of technological transcendence from the physical body via immersion in virtual reality is problematic because it is based on a misleading dichotomy of mind versus body.

MELANIE CHAN

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VR dangles in front of our eyes a vision of the media's future, changes in the ways we communicate, and the way we think about communication. The medium that tantalizes us so has gone by a number of names: computer simulation, artificial reality, virtual environments, augmented reality, cyberspace, and so on. More terms are likely to be invented as the technology's future unfolds. But the enigmatic term virtual reality has dominated the discourse. It has defined the technology's future by giving it a goal--the creation of virtual reality. Virtual reality is not a technology; it is a destination.

FRANK BIOCCA, TAEYONG KIM, & MARK R. LEVY

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The promise of virtual reality has always been enormous. Put on these goggles, go nowhere, and be transported anywhere. It's the same escapism peddled by drugs, alcohol, sex, and art -- throw off the shackles of the mundane through a metaphysical transportation to an altered state.

MATTHEW SCHNIPPER

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Virtual reality is like dreaming with your eyes open.

BRENNAN SPIEGEL

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Only when we aren't scared of the big "what if?" and embrace the moonshot thinking required to work in VR will we be able to help move this medium forward to its full potential.

RESH SIDHU

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VR at its best shouldn't replace real life, just modify it, giving us access to so much just out of reach physically, economically. If you can dream it, VR can make it.

MATTHEW SCHNIPPER

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What is it like to walk in someone else's shoes? Books allow us to imagine it, and movies allow us to see it, but VR is the first medium that actually allows us to experience it.

NICK MOKEY

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When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed.

SCOTT ADAMS

Tags: Scott Adams

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Avoid overthinking the existential philosophy of the question, and just consider, if you were in a virtual world that was indistinguishable from the real world, would your visit to the Eiffel Tower be less enjoyable? Would you rather walk around the pyramids in real life, or walk on top of the pyramids in a real-seeming virtual world?

JOSHUA VANDERWALL

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Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality.

ELI KHAMAROV

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