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{{quote|''"What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain."''|'''Morpheus''', ''[[The Matrix]]''}}
This is a relatively new branch of [[Science Fiction]], it deals with the aspects of people being either partially or completely attached to, and part of a computer system. Virtual Reality taken to the next step, or perhaps, Virtual Reality ''as'' reality.
Being partially attached means that you "jack in" or otherwise connect, and you then experience whatever the computer system shows you, typically providing audio and visual quality at the maximum of human perception. It might go further and give you taste, touch, smell and more, or as [[Dennis Miller]] once put it, "If some unemployed punk in Trenton, New Jersey can buy a plug-in for $29.95 to let him make love to [[Cindy Crawford]], virtual reality is going to make [[Crack is Cheaper|crack cocaine]] look like Sanka." (More than one sci-fi story has this happen: Humanity dies out because everyone is so busy [http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-10-14/ having hot virtual sex] that there's no-one left to make any actual babies.)
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' has this as the central theme of the story. Notably, it treats Inside a Computer System as a mystical experience, without any technological peripherals connecting people to the virtual reality; the only "scientific" explanation given to the out of body experiences is the Earth's electromagnetic Schumann Resonance, which in the story can link human brains and computer equipment together without anyone noticing.
* In ''Silent Mobius'', this is [[Mad Scientist|Lebia Maverick]]'s main shtick.
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]''
* Everyone in ''[[.hack|.hack//]]'' is inside a MMORPG.
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* The second season of ''Superbook'' had the pet dog one of the first season's regulars getting trapped in a computer after a freak accident caused it to merge with the Superbook (the Bible, only with a magic ability to transport people into the stories). The new hero of the season then had to travel into the computer to get her back.
* Chisame of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', being a [[Playful Hacker]], gains an Artifact that lets her do this.
* ''[[Corrector Yui]]''.
* Like ''[[.hack|.hack//]]'', everyone in ''Mythic Quest'' is in the MMORPG ''Mythic Quest''.
* [[Digimon]]. That is all.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Caprica]]'' has the holo-bands, your own personal Matrix. Portrayed somewhat realistically as a new user, who just got his own avatar, doesn't know how to move without moving his physical legs. Also, he spawns in a drab concrete room with a single door, along with his guide, who apologizes for the lack of décor.
* A notably early example was in the 1976 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''The Deadly Assassin'', where the Doctor travels into a surreal virtual world inside a computer matrix.
* The ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "The Gamekeeper" featured a planet whose inhabitants deliberately plugged themselves into virtual reality pods after the planet was devastated. By the time SG-1 found it, [[New Eden|it got better]].
** The planet had definitely recovered into a near-paradise. Too bad that the "Gamekeeper" didn't bother to tell the inhabitants of the planet. Fortunately, SG-1 was there to save the day... again.
* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' also did this a few times. In one episode, McKay has to get Sheppard out of a VR where he's imprisoned. Later they use a VR system to [[Ho Yay|dive into each others' minds.]], and there's also a VR pod that a friendly replicator girl gets plugged into to keep her on ice, while giving her the impression of living a normal life.
* In ''[[VR
** The half-dozen people who actually watched the whole series eventually discovered that the much-maligned "acoustic modem" was ''not'' off-the-shelf technology, but [[Applied Phlebotinum]] from a buried Secret Project.
* J-drama ''[[Sh15uya]]'' centres on a group of fifteen-year-olds trapped in a virtual replica of Shibuya.
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