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I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute. -- Hillary Clinton
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. -- Steven Pinker
As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways. -- Geoff Mulgan
The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality. -- John Hench
I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be. -- Thomas Dolby
At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it. -- Thomas Dolby
I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.' -- John Perry Barlow
Cultures are virtual realities made of language. -- Terence McKenna
Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large. -- Robert J. Sawyer
Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists. -- Joan Lowery Nixon
It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it. -- Andrew Plotkin
It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment. -- David Deutsch
We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future? -- Greg Fitzsimmons
A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots. -- Chellis Glendinning
Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people. -- Hayao Miyazaki
If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka. -- Dennis Miller
The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads. -- Terence McKenna
Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot. -- Shane Carruth
Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings. -- Ralph Nader
Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward. -- Burt Rutan
I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East . . . . But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect [audiences] with contemporary life through the technology we have now. -- Mariko Mori
Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort of a waking dream where we can travel in space and time, where we can travel in mind. This became more than virtual reality, this became a real virtuality... -- Jason Silva
Virtual Reality for Formula One could be fantastic - driving the car! -- Martin Sorrell
Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this. -- Mark Zuckerberg
I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it. -- Martin Sorrell
Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures. -- Mark Zuckerberg
[Formula One racing] will be very different - as the technology will be very different and that will make fans consume it in a completely different way. I said before that I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. -- Martin Sorrell
Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower. -- Nick Bostrom
I'd really love to work with virtual reality at some point. You could make a killer adventure game with that. -- Jane Jensen
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.' -- Martin Rees
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense. -- Ray Kurzweil
In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset. -- Nick Woodman
It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings. Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come. -- Charles Stross
Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that. -- Temple Grandin
The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too, and has some advantages, like full Station simulation, not just part. Like all simulators, they have parts that are wrong and misleading: an important thing to remember when preparing for reality. -- Chris Hadfield
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. -- Peter Thiel
Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin. -- Bill Watterson
We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality. -- Peter Greenaway
When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed. -- Scott Adams
This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics. -- Jerry Garcia
Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect? -- Palmer Luckey
Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself. -- Paul Virilio
Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality. -- Jane Rosenthal
It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle. -- Howard Rheingold
If you want to move through a virtual reality it's called a video game, it's been around forever. -- James Cameron
There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality. -- Hans Blix
It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there. -- Donald Knuth
Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer. -- Owsley Stanley
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just virtual reality. -- Martin Rees
The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God. -- Paul Virilio
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering. -- Richard Dawkins
The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real. -- Paul Virilio
The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real. -- Gaston Bachelard
If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. -- Palmer Luckey
You chose me as your partner because i am the virtual image created in your brain!In reality my voice doesn't suit your image & hence we split. -- Gopichand Lagadapati
The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit. -- Bill McKibben
By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality. -- Ray Kurzweil
A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think. -- Palmer Luckey
The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man. -- Paul Virilio
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. -- Palmer Luckey
There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it. -- Jerry Garcia
I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand. -- Paul Virilio
The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs. -- Michael Dell
There may be a jump on electronic LSD with virtual reality, and the problem just with saying LSD, enough time has gone by that there is no distinction between psychedelics and other drugs. -- Howard Rheingold
As I currently explore things like augmented and virtual reality, I constantly bring us back to actual bodies in space, real dancers that have physical manifestations not just phantoms that exist in digital space. -- Saya Woolfalk
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