From hurtling cows in " Twister, " to an exploding White House in " Independence Day, " to a beast with the voice and brow of Sean Connery in " Dragonheart, " special effects give filmmakers amazing tools to create artificial reality.
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In Ms . Leeson's cyber-fantasy, which opens Friday in Manhattan, Emmy Coer ( Francesca Faridany ), a contemporary computer whiz experimenting with artificial reality, is obsessed with the life of Ada Byron King ( Tilda Swinton ), the mathematically gifted daughter of Lord Byron.
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The new model has a smaller cockpit window ( as a result of the rest of the craft being larger ) and newly backward-angled legs, and its larger size allows for many extra rooms, including separate quarters, a medibay and a re-designed artificial reality suite.
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The artificial reality and wild west plot also shows similarities to the " Star Trek : The Original Series " episode " Spectre of the Gun ", and to the " Star Trek : The Next Generation "'s episode " A Fistful of Datas ".
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People are kept in suspended animation in fluid-filled pods, and their consciousnesses live out lives in a vast artificial reality called " the matrix, " which approximates life on Earth in 1999 . Every experience _ sex, ambition, even the most succulent steak _ is fake.
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"It is only because death is stalking us that the world is an unfathomable mystery, " says Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan, and, without understanding that death is our constant companion, we are trapped within the sterility and inherent boredom of the artificial reality we humans have constructed for ourselves.
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Reluctantly working together, the trio invaded a KubeKult base to steal the erratically functioning Cube but the Red Skull seized it and willed Captain America to be drawn inside it into an artificial reality during World War II, where Captain America and Bucky were on a mission to kill Hitler.
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However, the virus spreads to the VR machine the crew is connected to, sealing them into the artificial reality, removing their'special skills'and allowing them to feel pain ( Fortunately, Lister and Cat cannot be actually " killed ", although Rimmer's light bee is still potentially vulnerable to the virus ).
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In this third-person perspective, dystopian environment, players control Gideon Eshanti and Rachel Braque, two loyal agents ( and lovers ) of a new law enforcement agency created by the theocracy : Artificial Reality Containment, or ARC, a Cultural Revolution-like organization that enforces a ban on cybernetic technology in general and virtual reality in particular.
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In " Stoke Me a Clipper " ( 1997 ), Lister pretends to be a hostile knight who escaped from " Starbug " s artificial reality suite in order to prove Rimmer is heroic enough to take over as the new Ace Rimmer and leave " Starbug " for other dimensions to " right wrongs ".
