Simulated Environment Quotes

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.

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

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen.” “Oh! My desk. I could’ve sat at my desk. I could’ve sat at your desk.” “No.” “It’s a vid set.” “Even then, no.

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount moveable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of day and night and even the terrestial seasons...But he doubtless will follow the longstanding American habit of thinking that outer space should, as much as possible, resemble Southern California.

Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?

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

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.

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

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.

The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored.

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

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.

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.

Virtuality will destroy reality.

We had to recreate the banks of the river Yamuna on a studio floor. It wasn't easy… or cheap.

We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass and treble tones, just like we now have stereoscopy and stereophony: there will be two realities: the actual, and the virtual. Thus there is no simulation, but substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. The splitting of reality in two parts is a considerable event which goes far beyond simulation.

They say you get nauseous in a green screen room, but I haven't yet. It's a little odd playing pretend with props and monitors that we're supposed to be watching, but I'll get used to it.

For the most part, when you're on set, you know everything's fake. You're very aware of the fact that you're shooting a television show.

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.

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