Ernest Cline Quotes

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.

I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.

Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow.

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

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.

I absolutely love VR.

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.

Obviously, virtual reality is where I've placed my bet about the future and where the excitement is going. At this point, I could say it's almost a lock. It's going to be magical - it is magical - and great things are coming from that. Along the way, I was focused on the first-person shooters. I said we should go do something on mobile.

I don't do that virtual reality stuff. I'm not even into 3D, actually... I've been offered it. I just don't want to.

Personally, I'm kind of swirling in this hurricane of virtual reality because of 'Ready Player One.'

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

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

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

The Internet is getting so big, and people are inventing so many amazing things and new experiences. I never thought 'Coco' would have a VR game, and it was very cool to experience. I remember throwing a paper airplane even though there wasn't actually anything in my hand.

Virtual reality's been around for 40 years. People have been talking about storytelling in that world for all these years, and there have been experiments around of people trying to do that, and always excited about it.

Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away.

I believe AR is going to be the primary platform of the future for both work and entertainment.

My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.

I see a bright future for the future of computing and its implications for games.

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.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.