Questions tagged [virtual-worlds]
Virtual worlds, as opposed to fantasy worlds, are typically environments that are created by computer technology into which people from the real world can be immersed in. These can range from holodeck type experiences (physical manifestation) to directed mental imagery (such as in The Matrix).
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VR technology making people too complacent to experience reality [closed]
Is anyone else worried that the point at which VR technology supplants reality for us will come before the point at which we explore deep space (so we will be complacent with our fake space missions)?
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Book in which a girl dies on a railway track and her sister brings her back in a virtual world
This is on behalf of my daughter who read the book a few years ago. How she described it to me:
In the book, the girl is electrocuted on a train track - electricity travels through a balloon she is ...
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Book about a guy playing a simulation game [closed]
Trying to track down a book I read in middle school (23 now), about a guy/boy playing a simulation game. I don’t know much else, except that he played that simulation game. In the game he was like a ...
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Movie involving virtual reality, a little person with a girlfriend or wife, and sex/nudity
To be honest, I just remember watching this movie and for like two months it's bugging me that I don't know the name, but here are the details I can remember.
It's a movie that has the element of ...
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Does Star Wars have the technology for Matrix-style simulations?
I was watching a video from the Youtube channel, Modern Day Eratosthenes and the Youtuber gave an example of Star Wars style prosthetics as the technology necessary to create a simulated reality like ...
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Sci-fi novel with a side character who created children within virtual reality and whose human life/body wasted away
I’ve been trying to remember what book this is from for years and I have not been able to figure it out. This isn’t the main character of the book but more of a cautionary tale/side character, perhaps ...
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Were the President and/or Marta actually more intelligent than Morty?
I think it is clear that the Morty "shards" are more like a merger between the game's view of the original NPC and Morty -- if they were only one five billionth of Marty's intellect, they ...
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Story where people spend their retirement immersed in a virtual world
I read this short story or novella in the 90s, I think it was part of an anthology.
It features a retirement home where the residents have their brains wired, Matrix-style, into an elaborate virtual ...
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Teen novel blurring the line between virtual gaming and reality
I am trying to identify a book I read in my teens. It was most likely released around the mid 2000s to mid 2010s if I remember correctly.
I remember that the main character was a male lead who moves ...
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Virtual Reality Manhwa with a weak MC with the dragon slayer class
I'm trying to find the title of a manhwa I read a year or two back - here's what I remember about it:
It is a Virtual Reality themed manhwa.
The MC is weak and is repeatedly killed by a newbie ...
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Book featuring digital Artificial Life, virtual reality using idle compute cycles
In the early to mid 90's I recall reading a book where a computer scientist is asked to create a virtual reality for life to exist after death, using the idle cycles of networked computers from around ...
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Sci-fi, mid-grade/YA novel about a girl in a wheelchair beta testing the world's first fully immersive VR program
I read this book when I was nine or ten, so back in the late 90s (no idea if it was new then, but probably based on the subject matter), and I really want to try to find it and recommend it if I can.
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Movie where the protagonist wakes up as a female character completely nude and finds armor to put on and a sword in virtual reality
The scene has a very warm orange tint lighting. The protagonist is a guy that visits a virtual reality world but wakes up in a blonde female avatar/body completely naked on a canopy bed with several ...
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Dystopian Science Fiction story about virtual reality (called being hooked-up) from the 1960's-70's [duplicate]
Trying to identify this story for an acquaintance. They read it in the late 1970's, they were not sure if it was a novel or part of an anthology. They think it was published sometime in the 1960's or ...
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Short story, probably in Asimov's magazine in the early 2000s - rehabilitation through simulated reality; success is not killing anyone
In this story, a man gets irritated by someone he encounters, and kills them, easily (perhaps just by wishing them dead). It turns out that he is being rehabilitated for his violent tendencies - if he ...
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