A Quote by Paul Virilio
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.
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These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident.
Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.
All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to cyberspace, that is to say, to the process because of which we now have two bottles instead of one. I might not see this virtual bottle, but I can feel it. It is settled within reality. This explains why the word virtual reality is more important than the word cyberspace, which is more poetic.
You look at the U.S. budget deficit, and you cannot help but feel that this is a serious accident waiting to happen. And not just a serious U.S. accident, but a serious global accident.
Forget quantitative easing - I've always thought the idea of injecting virtual money into the system is an accident waiting to happen.
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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. Whereas if you're using it for virtual reality teleconferencing... there's really no kind of impact moving back and forth between the real and the virtual world.
Some people prefer to see the game in the television than to go to the stadium. With virtual reality this will go to be worse, but at the end the "real" reality will win, because a virtual meal is not the same thing as a real one!
Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it’s just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.
It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences
I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!
The virtual is opposed not to the real but to the actual. The virtual is fully real in so far as it is virtual.
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.
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