Digital Simulation Quotes

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

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

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

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

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

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

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

Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum: in short, a picture, of which the preconditions for feasibility are forgetfulness and a misunderstanding of processes.

Virtuality will destroy reality.

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

Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ball. The video world knows no such bounds. Objects fly, spin, accelerate, change shape and color, disappear and reappear. Their behavior, like the behavior of anything created by a computer program, is limited only by the programmer's imagination. The objects in a video game are representations of objects. And a representation of a ball, unlike a real one, never need obey the laws of gravity unless its programmer wants it to.

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