Quotes About Virtual

I actually switched to a third-person view for a few seconds, just to admire how cool my avatar looked wearing it.

I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip.

Several Sonic the Hedgehog games involved a quest to collect seven "Chaos Emeralds" that could be harnessed to obtain special powers. Inside the OASIS, dozens of different quests on Mobius Prime allowed you to collect the seven Chaos Emeralds, and I'd completed all of them. But if there was a way to trade the emeralds for one of the shards, I still hadn't discovered it.

because I couldn't bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.

Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.

The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place.

could still visit them anytime I pleased, because there was a highly accurate OASIS re-creation of the Portland Avenue Stacks just as I remembered them, constructed from photos and video of the real location taken before the bombing. It was now a popular OASIS tourist attraction and school field-trip destination.

On the floor, directly underneath my suspended haptic chair, was my Okagami Runaround omnidirectional treadmill.

These days, most gunters referred to them as "the Sux0rz." (Because they sucked.)

I took control of a Happy Helpdesk avatar, a cookie-cutter Ken doll that I used to take tech-support calls. This avatar appeared inside a huge virtual call center, inside a virtual cubicle, sitting at a virtual desk, in front of a virtual computer, wearing a virtual phone headset. I thought of this place as my own private virtual hell.

Welcome to the OASIS, Parzival!

This avatar appeared inside a huge virtual call center, inside a virtual cubicle, sitting at a virtual desk, in front of a virtual computer, wearing a virtual phone headset. I thought of this place as my own private virtual hell.

Christ! Haven't any of you rewatched The Matrix lately? Or Sword Art Online?

Good luck, Parzival," he said. "And thanks. Thanks for playing my game.

final scene of Anorak's Invitation, by the way.

She used to have to force me to log out every night, because I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked.

Probably because I couldn't bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.

Any business that wanted to set up shop inside the OASIS had to rent or purchase virtual real estate (which Morrow dubbed "surreal estate") from GSS.

As we sprinted from the Candle Room to the Music Club to the Boudoir to the Virtual Video Room, a song called "Interactive" played on a continuous loop in every room. Aech explained that this was a song Prince wrote exclusively for a Myst-like videogame he released with the same title.

Neal Stephenson.

OASIS. The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation

Neuromancer.

Also, don't touch anything, and if you can help it, try not to look at anything either—not for longer than a second or two. Otherwise you might trigger some educational minigame or side quest that you'll be forced to complete, and we'll have to go on without you. We don't have time to stop and play Blue's Clues.

home videogame consoles had already made most coin-op games obsolete. After the OASIS went online, they stopped making