Hiro walks straight through the display, and it vanishes. Amusement parks in the Metaverse can be fantastic, offering a wide selection of interactive three-dimensional movies. But in the end, theyÕre still nothing more than video games. HiroÕs not so poor, yet, that he would go and write video games for this company.
(Neal Stephanson, Snow Crash (New York: Bantam, 1993), 39)