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Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world.
Many science fiction books have imagined characters being "trapped in virtual reality" or entering into virtual reality. ...more
Many science fiction books have imagined characters being "trapped in virtual reality" or entering into virtual reality. ...more
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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.
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― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
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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.
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― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
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