virtual reality – The Doctor Is Out

Did you know that the films eXistenZ, The Matrix and The 13th Floor were all released in 1999?

Arguably, the last year of reality.

Discussing virtual realities / simulated environments today and been wondering if t1oo will follow the pattern of legendary SF stories like Simulacron-3 and The Matrix and involve the protagonists learning they have always existed within a simulation. The ‘City of Light’ simulation being just an interior level of the greater simulation.

It would also be an easy way out for them – everyone who has ‘died’ in the simulation is either transferred to ‘the real world’ or another simulacrum.

Addressing quantum universes as endless simulacrums?

Bah.

Is The Matrix not well known today? Had lots of questions about what the CoL is and it is, for better or worse, The Matrix. If you know those films, you’ll know what the virtual reality platform that is the City of Light is based upon. It seems to even run by similar rules and the story lines/themes/struggles within it are similar (if not totally copied).