Virtual Representation Quotes

It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

There's so many kids who only know me from the video game.

I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.

I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.

Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

If you've got no base, it's very difficult to function as an MP. You cannot be a 'virtual' MP, you must be a proper one.

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

We're always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it's somewhat inevitable that we're going to make holograms of people.

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

Augmented reality will change the world more than a lot of other technologies. Traveling around to meet people will be much less important when you can stand in a room and chat with a virtual representation of a person that's so close to reality - it'll be a whole new level.

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

It's pretty cool to see yourself on a video game.

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

I never imagined that I would see my face on the cover of an EA Sports videogame.

To get to be part of a video game is... it's pretty neat. That somebody animated me is very exciting and weird.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.