Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

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

The thing of being able to share somebody's reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know. Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody's reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically. The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go? If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which... you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

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.

I've had moments where it's like being in the Matrix.

I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.

Usually, companies, when they approach other people to do VR, they're like, 'We're gonna offer a virtual reality experience' - to me, that usually means they're gonna put a bunch of 360° cameras in a room, film something, and wrap the video in a sphere so you can head-track and look around. To me, that's not virtual reality. That's 360° video.

We're trending towards the holodeck. Eventually we'll have a system that's indistinguishable from reality.

Even though it is virtual, we still provide a 'sandbox-style' play environment.

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.

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

The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.

If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.

One day the virtual world might win over the real world.

Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.

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

Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.

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.

The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

Virtuality will destroy reality.

Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored.

In the future, I think you are going to want to capture a whole scene, a room, to be able to transport to that. To be able to stream what you are doing live and have people be able to interact in that space.