Top 100 Quotes About Virtual Reality
#1. Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!
Molly Haskell
#2. Then came the Boris Vallejo virtual reality mindfucks.
Robert Guffey
#3. Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
Palmer Luckey
#4. In this universe, all we perceive is a virtual reality created by the neurons.
Abhijit Naskar
#5. I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.
Hillary Clinton
#6. We're finally going to be free of the 2D monitor. It's been a window into virtual reality that we've all looked into for 30 or 40 years.
Brendan Iribe
#7. The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.
Terence McKenna
#8. A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots.
Chellis Glendinning
#9. I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East ... But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect [audiences] with contemporary life through the technology we have now.
Mariko Mori
#10. As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.
Geoff Mulgan
#11. I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.
Brendan Iribe
#12. I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.
Palmer Luckey
#13. I had just two rules for their virtual reality worlds: No shooting violence and no pornography. I issued that decree mostly because those things have been done in computer games only about a zillion times, and I was looking for original thinking.
Randy Pausch
#14. Certainly, virtual reality headsets are behind in resolution, but it'll all catch up pretty quickly once there's a consumer market and there's demand.
Brendan Iribe
#15. If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.
Dennis Miller
#16. If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable.
Palmer Luckey
#17. The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
Ray Kurzweil
#18. This is a deeply spiritual issue ... Do we want to spend more time trying to care for our fellow man or do we want to just pursue more virtual reality? That's the issue before us.. and it's being played out in the world of the environment.
Ed Begley Jr.
#19. Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.
Ralph Nader
#21. In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.
Palmer Luckey
#22. If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you're be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it's hard to imagine where you go from there.
Palmer Luckey
#23. Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.
Hayao Miyazaki
#24. I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.
Thomas Dolby
#25. What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.
Douglas Adams
#26. It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
David Deutsch
#27. Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.
Nick Bostrom
#28. With virtual reality, I'm not interested in the novelty factor. I'm interested in the foundations for a medium that could be more powerful than cinema, than theatre, than literature, than any other medium we've had before to connect one human being to another.
Chris Milk
#29. A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.
Palmer Luckey
#30. If you want to move through a virtual reality it's called a video game, it's been around forever.
James Cameron
#31. Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing.
Steve Mann
#32. In virtual reality, it's more about capturing and creating worlds that people are inhabiting. You really are a creator in the way the audience lives within the world that you are building.
Chris Milk
#33. In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story ... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else.
Chris Milk
#34. If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code.
Mark Zuckerberg
#35. When people ask whether virtual reality will be a real thing or just the next 3D, what I always say is, 'Take a headset, walk outside, and the next person you meet, put it on them and see what the reaction is.'
Chris Milk
#36. It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.
Andrew Plotkin
#37. A bad version of a virtual reality video makes you vomit in your headset in under 10 seconds. It's much easier to make bad VR than it is to make good VR.
Chris Milk
#38. became more urgent and more defined. A timeline may not be a virtual reality chamber, but it can help our brains see time for what it really is: limited.
Meg Jay
#39. When I saw how real virtual reality can be, and that we can replace human vision with virtual vision, this can be the ultimate platform.
Brendan Iribe
#40. Some people prefer to see the game in the television than to go to the stadium. With virtual reality this will go to be worse, but at the end the "real" reality will win, because a virtual meal is not the same thing as a real one!
Rodolfo Llinas
#41. Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'
Martin Rees
#42. We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
Peter Greenaway
#43. Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.
Chris Milk
#44. There were two problems with this idea. First, it led to crappy "virtual reality" movies like Virtuosity and The Lawnmower Man. And second, in the long run, it turned out to be totally wrong.
Ken Jennings
#45. Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures.
Mark Zuckerberg
#46. There's three things that you need for virtual reality to work. You need the hardware that's affordable and doesn't make people sick, you need an audience that is willing to pay for it, and you need the content.
Chris Milk
#47. Virtual reality is the representation of possible worlds and possible selves, with the aim of making them appear as real as possible - ideally, by creating a subjective sense of "presence" and full immersion in the user.
Thomas Metzinger
#48. Had always believed an immersive virtual reality afterlife was possible in principle. Maybe
Ken MacLeod
#49. Virtual reality started for me in sort of an unusual place. It was the 1970s. I got into the field very young: I was seven years old. And the tool that I used to access virtual reality was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle.
Chris Milk
#50. Display companies, many of them that we've spoken to, are really excited about virtual reality because they're actually running out of innovation opportunities in other markets.
Brendan Iribe
#51. The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.
Bill McKibben
#52. By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.
Ray Kurzweil
#53. The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#55. Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
Steven Pinker
#56. When people take off the headset, they immediately have a creative idea about what they can make in virtual reality, and a lot of them immediately want to get involved.
Brendan Iribe
#57. Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.
Joan Lowery Nixon
#58. We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.
M.R. Mathias
#59. The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs.
Michael Dell
#60. Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.
Burt Rutan
#61. The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.
John Hench
#62. I'd really love to work with virtual reality at some point. You could make a killer adventure game with that.
Jane Jensen
#63. Virtual reality is already affecting people on an emotional level much more than any other media, and it has the potential to scale: all you need is an attachment for your cellphone, and you can have this experience.
Chris Milk
#64. Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.
Mark Zuckerberg
#65. It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
Donald Knuth
#66. By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities.
Ray Kurzweil
#67. Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
Palmer Luckey
#68. In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset.
Nick Woodman
#69. There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.
Hans Blix
#70. Virtual reality is the 'ultimate empathy machine.' These experiences are more than documentaries. They're opportunities to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
Chris Milk
#71. It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings. Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come.
Charles Stross
#72. When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed.
Scott Adams
#73. Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.
Jane Rosenthal
#74. Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems.
Jonathan Gottschall
#75. It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world.
Chris Milk
#76. At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.
Thomas Dolby
#77. Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.
Shane Carruth
#78. She could be anybody and she could pretend to be whomever she wants to be. With social media and internet communications, everything is virtual. Social media is full of fake and sick people deceiving each other and fantasizing to be something they are not.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#79. We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.
Russell Hoban
#80. Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
Larry Ellison
#81. At times we'll want to escape our
polluted reality...
not augment it with digital
Debris
Clyde DeSouza
#82. The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.
Gaston Bachelard
#83. Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.
Cintra Wilson
#84. Only then did I realise that for me, and many others, Israel was virtual. For Murad, Israel was 'home.' Israel was a reality; a harsh reality.
Suad Amiry
#86. Reality and the virtual space reflect each other. They correspond to each other.
Koji Suzuki
#87. If I can only be my true self in the virtual world ... then what was the point of coming back to reality after all?
Reki Kawahara
#88. Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it?
William Gibson
#89. In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.
Mark Cantrell
#90. I kind of thought actually that Trevor was gone completely mental when he called up here a few weeks ago. Like, why would he not text or email or Facebook? What's with all the reality, I thought. Does he not know he's a million times cooler in virtual form?
Donal Ryan
#91. In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted
atrocious.
Marcel Proust
#92. Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy ... is the mind experiencing "presence" in our holographic existence.
Clyde DeSouza
#93. Fear is a beautiful mirror reflecting the reality of great things with false illussions. After all, images in the mirror ain't real at all, they're just virtual. So, keep ballin' without checkin mirrors coz u may see an image that proves it's hard
ya, u never know it's hard till u've done it!!!
Mphezulu Xetho Dainamyk
#94. Artificial Intelligence is not a Man versus Machine saga; it's in fact, Man with Machine synergy.
Sudipto Ghosh
#95. A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.
Brandon Sanderson
#96. We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future?
Greg Fitzsimmons
#97. 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.
Douglas Adams
#98. However, in the virtual world of social networks, we get attracted to identities that are virtual. We don't know who is behind them and what their intentions are. Sometimes, they are just predators looking for easy prey. And they are very good at what they do.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#99. Virtual domain = the field of spirit Quantum domain = the field of mind Material reality = the field of physical existence
Deepak Chopra
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