Greg Fitzsimmons Quotes

The computer is designed to mimic reality. And in an animated world, in my perspective, that's the worst thing to do. I want people to walk into a movie theater and be transported to a different world.

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

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.

This... is a synthetic world many of us live in today - a dream, if you will.

All simulators are going to be different compared to reality, that's how I see it.

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.

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

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

It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.

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

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

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.

If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.

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

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

Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

What could possibly be more fantastic than 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 think we're just going to have to live with the microcosm in the electronic world of the kind of things that we might see in the physical world.

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

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.