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Originally Posted by damion4242
Never played it. What was it like?
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Augmented reality, essentially -- everything is wired, so if you're plugged in, your view of reality is augmented by all of the processors pumping out data from everyday objects and locations. Dan Simmons called it the "Infosphere" in Ilium, this layer of data over reality. You look at the exterior of a restaraunt, and you can pull up the menu or make a reservation or see what the specials are. Look at a car, if you're a cop, and you can pull up the registration. You can pull up windows in your LOS which list the local temperature, the time, or you can talk to somebody and as you shake hands, electronically pass data like an e-business-card to them. Stand over an electronic lock, and you can hack it as it asks you for your retinal scan. Autonomous programs flit across your vision as they perform their duties.
I have no idea if Shadowrun's works like that, but that's essentially what Virtuality was, with the addition of codeguns, so you could shoot the aforementioned autonomous programs.
--Eric