Artificial Reality Quotes

Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

What does the future of 'Westworld' look like? I don't necessarily think that we've seen the last of these artificial worlds that are central to the concept of our series as a whole. But the major lens that we will have is going to be the real world.

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

At its very core, virtual reality is about being freed from the limitations of actual reality. Carrying your virtual reality with you, and being able to jump into it whenever and wherever you want, qualitatively changes the experience for the better. Experiencing mobile VR is like when you first tried a decent desktop VR experience.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

This... is a synthetic world many of us live in today - a dream, if you will.

With digital technology there's a huge spectrum of flexibility in what you can do to manipulate sound and image - which you can push into a really artificial realm if you aren't careful.

In virtual reality, it's more about capturing and creating worlds that people are inhabiting. You really are a creator in the way the audience lives within the world that you are building.

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.

I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is the real world is The Real World is the read world. It’s the same true story, even when it isn’t.

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.