LOOKING FOR BOOK OR BOOK SERIES I READ after 2004, but around maybe 2010 ?

[Ralph]

LOOKING FOR BOOK OR BOOK SERIES I READ after 2004, but around maybe 2010 ?

Due to the current boom in AI and AR or VR, I wanted to find a 2006-2009 or so, book or maybe a series of books, that I had read, to re read them and see if they were any good.
The story started with immersion in virtual reality. There were a lot of back stories, so I think that this was a series. One back story was that one of the AR individuals had hacked into a Chinese closed circuit camera firm and put a chip in them, and those because the most popular CCTV cameras int eh world, and the individual could appear invisible to the cameras, due to the chip implant into all of them.

Anyway, the antagonist got really into AR, had something going on with AI that guided him. I don't think that the protagonist knew that the AI was AI at first. The AI guided him to perform nefarious deeds IRL to set the AI up to take over, and eventually the protagonist had a home bunker that he never left, even outfitted motorcycles with ? spinning knife blades? To deal with people in the real world.

The world had fallen into some sort of pro vs ani AR /AI dystopia.

I remember the protagonist searching for check in points, to find the ultimate AR reward or control of the AR maybe? He was briefly involved in a skirmish with pro AR people and anti-mercenaries at a farm? On his way to the check in point that he had to get to by AR.

I then also randomly recall at the end the antagonist had lost his real eyes IRL to an AI maybe? But then he was killed IRL by a German General who was some how moving from AR to IRL.

Yeah, those are the memories of these books/book that I recall. I remember liking them, I think . Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts or directions, id really appreciate it (the hazards of reading on a Kindle. I lost that account and was never able to get that library back…).