Quotes About Reality

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.

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

All signs point to there being many virtual and augmented reality competitors, and not just a single, dominant company.

I've always written observations on the world, and now there's two of them. The virtual world is a new thing, and it doesn't really exist, but people are in it a lot.

When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.

People are texting and smash into the car in front of them - I think there is some humor in that. And the virtual games. People are playing these virtual games, but they're real - I mean, the people are really playing, but it's not a game.

The virtual world can never be a substitute for real world experience. And the more it takes over our lives, the more we forget to feel the sun on our skin, the more we forget that there is an entire universe to be discovered even during a 10 minute walk to work.

Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language.

Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.

When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.

It's been well documented how we start to believe in our virtual or digital selves more than our real selves, but it's strange to think that human behaviour hasn't really changed at all since that legend was created.

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.

Virtual reality and augmented reality will change the way we shop.

What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.

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

One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.

Augmented and virtual reality technologies are the future of smart construction and we are just starting to see the possibilities.

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

I love how close you are to current affairs and social issues here in England. Out in L.A., you have to make an effort to look outside that little microcosm. It's almost like it's a virtual reality to imagine a problem there.

The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.