![]() ![]() Stanisław Lem's 1961 story "I (Profesor Corcoran)", translated in English as "Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy I", dealt with a scientist who created a number of computer-simulated people living in a virtual world. Other science fiction books have promoted the idea of virtual reality as a partial, but not total, substitution for the misery of reality, or have touted it as a method for creating virtual worlds in which one may escape from Earth. ![]() A comprehensive and specific fictional model for virtual reality was published in 1935 in the short story "Pygmalion's Spectacles" by Stanley G. ![]() Laurence Manning's 1933 series of short stories, " The Man Who Awoke"-later a novel-describes a time when people ask to be connected to a machine that replaces all their senses with electrical impulses and, thus, live a virtual life chosen by them ( à la The Matrix, but voluntary, not imposed). ![]() Many science fiction books and films have imagined characters being "trapped in virtual reality" or entering into virtual reality. Virtual reality in fiction describes fictional representations of the technological concept of virtual reality. Fictional representations of the technological concept of virtual reality ![]()
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