Paul Virilio Quotes

No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor.

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

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.

Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'

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.

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.

Augmented reality will take some time to get right, but I do think that it's profound.

I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.

I'm excited about Augmented Reality because unlike Virtual Reality, which closes the world out, AR allows individuals to be present in the world but hopefully allows an improvement on what's happening presently.

Every application designed for 2D interfaces will be obsoleted by AR.

Much of the excitement about virtual reality has come from the gaming community.

I believe that augmented reality will be the biggest technological revolution that happens in our lifetimes.

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

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

The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly - it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming.

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.

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

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

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.

I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities.

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

I don't believe in simulationism, I believe that the word is already old-fashioned. As I see it, new technologies are substituting a virtual reality for an actual reality. And this is more than a phase: it's a definite change.

Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.