I’d come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn’t exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.
This line comes after Wade has described all the OASIS immersion hardware that he’s crammed into his tiny one-room apartment—a room he never leaves. He wears a full body haptic suit and gloves that allow him to feel simulated sensations inside the OASIS, and a VR headset that fools his eyes into see things that aren’t there. It’s a perfectly sad moment for him: as proud as he is of all this amazing technology, he’s also beginning to feel imprisoned by it, as he grows more and more disconnected from reality. But he chooses to remain inside his self-imposed prison cell, because he still feels safer there than in the real world.
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