Give Me VR and Call Me Stupid: Virtual Reality as a Generator of New Themes

Virtual reality has existed since someone thought about it, and that was a long time before Oculus or Samsung Gear. In all this time, just as Verne did in his day, imagining inventions yet to come, authors have fantasised about virtual realities in other fields such as literature, film or video games. We’ll be talking about how fiction and reality feed each other, and playing at imagining what the future could have in store for us.