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VR.5
1995 · TV series · 43 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Michael Katleman, Adam Cherry, Jeannine Renshaw, Geoffrey Hemwall, Thania St. John
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VR.5 is an American television program originally broadcast on the Fox network from March 10, 1995 to May 12, 1995. Ten of its thirteen episodes were aired during its original run. The title of the show refers to the degree of immersion the protagonist experiences in the virtual world.
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VR is strange because it's already culturally successful. I would point to the ideas from the circa-1980 books
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22617.Seduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
and then how there was a craze for it in the early 1990s (like this failed TV show)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR.5
then there was The Matrix and by the time Sword Art Online: Ready Player One came out people were taking it for granted.
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