Paul Virilio Quotes

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.

The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.

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.

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.

The simulator is an object in itself, which is different from televison and leads to cyberspace.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.

I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.

We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future?

These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident.

Virtuality will destroy reality.

Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you'll feel heat.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

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.