Virtual World Vicarious Gifts

"Alexa. Just talk to me!.."

"Mom, please shake my chair. I'm taking a virtual school bus ride before class begins."

"By the way, the failing grades you'll be seeing-they won't be virtual."

Mac OS 20

Real Life/Surreal Life

"Pokemon...Pokemon...Pokemon...."

His family thought he'd been wasting his life, but Steve Wiebe was about to prove everyone wrong.

Computer games

"Our Rupert has swopped his gaming console for bagpipes...it gets us out of the house more often."

"Wanna toss the ol' virtual pigskin?"

"This is not what I meant when I said you needed to practice your play fighting..."

"You may now kiss the bride."

"Mommy, watch, I'm living authentically!"

"I've never read such utter nonsense! There's a guy here reckons we're all living in some kind of computer simulation!"

'Jeff is a tackle on his online college football team.'

Life after death

'These new video games are getting out of hand...'

'Mr. Smithdon's at his desk, but he's not really there....He's somewhere out there in cyberspace!'

"He is walking from 'Lands end to John'o'Groats', virtually."

'Dewey, come look! This is so cute. The kids are playing wii hockey.'

Go Play Outside - it's so real, you kids will almost smell the virtual fresh air!

'These virtual-reality goggles are great! Right now, I'm sun-bathing in Tahiti...'

"Social media stocks have taken a beating I'm seeing a lot of avatars on ledges."

'I know I can't take it with me, but what about computer simulations?'

Computer Life

Indoor Football

'With your technical background I know you're familiar with virtual reality. We'll teach you virtueless reality.'

"5...4...3...2..."

Busking during a pandemic

Shhh – I'm taking a virtual nap.

"He's been using the new virtual reality data viewer and climbing bar graphs..."

"I'm declawed, but with this headset, I can at least virtually scratch up the furniture."

"Morning, Brad." "Morning, Angelina."

"Virtual Reality glasses. Well, I said my sermon would let them see the real difference between Heaven and Hell this morning"

Two words, boss: Virtual reality. We glue virtual reality goggles to our coffee mugs. Come again? When patrons sip their Himalayan mochas, they'll think they're dangling from a cliff in the Himalayan mountains. People will come from Miles around! People will throw up for miles around. We'll give patrons mops that double as virtual reality hockey sticks. This conversation is virtually over.