Vr Addiction Quotes

“VR addictions take it to a new level. People are found dead everyday in their beds or couches, with their VR helmets still on, their games still running. They die of starvation, thirst, heart attacks. It's a big problem, and zombies—people with severe addictions—are as common as alcoholics or drug addicts these days. Many of them can't function in the real world anymore. They don't go to school or work or go outside. They couldn't even if they wanted to. The way Hakeem's mom explained it to us—in an effort to scare us from ever letting ourselves go that route, I guess—people with severe VR addictions have flipped the real and virtual worlds in their minds. To them, reality is the simulation, and VR is reality.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Ruby Code

“SHE’S ALWAYS BEEN A GAMER, BUT SINCE FATHER DIED…IT’S AN ADDICTION. SHE ARCHIVES EVERYTHING. AND HAS SINCE I WAS A CHILD. WE’RE TALKING TERABYTES. PETABYTES. YOTTABYTES. I DON’T KNOW. AND SHE’S AFTER ME TO “BORROW” THE MONEY.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories

“She wore not just the usual noninvasive modern interface-contacts, skin conductivity and brain activity sensors, the invisibly fine wires that lay along the skin and detected nerve impulses and muscle micro-movements-but a full immersion suit.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories