Quotes About Simulation

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

Putting you into a virtual world really allows you to think differently.

You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you're now in a different, virtual environment. You're somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be a video game, it may be in a real-time movie, a museum exhibit, or a medical surgical training app.

Videogames based on golf have often been viewed as, to mangle a phrase, a good walk through a virtual world spoiled. Connecting with your virtual golfers has often been as hard for gamers as understanding the sport itself.

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

Much of the excitement about virtual reality has come from the gaming community.

When I saw how real virtual reality can be, and that we can replace human vision with virtual vision, this can be the ultimate platform.

I don't play 'Farmville'... I play 'Mafia Wars.'

Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

The language also owed its existence to the Harvard PDP-10, interestingly enough. Since Gates and Allen didn't have access to an Intel 8080 at the time, they used Gates's student account on the big machine to create a simulation of the microprocessor

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you're be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it's hard to imagine where you go from there.

The problem with fighting at a lower level is that it doesn't simulate reality well. You want to train harder than real combat, not easier.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Ari believed we are all a simulation. Matter is an illusion. Everything is silicon. He could be right. But your emotions? They're solid.

the mind-boggling bit is that the theory hints that the entire universe is just two-dimensional information on a cosmological horizon and that everything we think we see in three dimensions is really as much an illusion as a 3D movie, and it could all be a simulation. So really, the world (and everything) might be flat after all. And then again it might not be.)

So anyway, the mind-boggling bit is that the theory hints that the entire universe is just two-dimensional information on a cosmological horizon and that everything we think we see in three dimensions is really as much an illusion as a 3D movie, and it could all be a simulation.

these engineers turned the real world into a video game and navigated the car through it.

Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars.

intelligence seems to be correlated with the complexity with which we can simulate future events

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The sense of incredible realism that many people experience when interacting in virtual worlds with virtual people is known as presence.