{"id":104065,"date":"2020-03-21T05:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T12:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/valve-president-gabe-newell-were-way-closer-to-the-matrix-than-people-realize"},"modified":"2020-03-21T05:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T12:03:41","slug":"valve-president-gabe-newell-were-way-closer-to-the-matrix-than-people-realize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/valve-president-gabe-newell-were-way-closer-to-the-matrix-than-people-realize","title":{"rendered":"Valve president Gabe Newell: \u2018We\u2019re way closer to The Matrix than people realize\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/valve-president-gabe-newell-were-way-closer-to-the-matrix-than-people-realize.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think we\u2019re far off from <em>The Matrix<\/em>? <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/tag\/gabe-newell\/\">Gabe Newell<\/a> says you should think again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gabe Newell Talks Half-Life: Alyx &amp; Valve&#039;s Past and (Unexpected) Future \u2013 IGN First\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I0zXkwLs_lo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a rare <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/I0zXkwLs_lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with IGN<\/a> ahead of next week\u2019s release of <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/tag\/half-life-alyx\/\">Half-Life: Alyx<\/a>, Newell reasoned that more advanced forms of VR might not be too far out. \u201cWe\u2019re way closer to The Matrix than people realize,\u201d he stated. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be \u2018The Matrix\u2019, The Matrix is a movie and it misses all the interesting technical subtleties and just how weird the post-brain-computer interface world is going to be. But it\u2019s going to have a huge impact on the kinds of experiences that we can create for people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think we\u2019re far off from The Matrix? Gabe Newell says you should think again. In a rare interview with IGN ahead of next week\u2019s release of Half-Life: Alyx, Newell reasoned that more advanced forms of VR might not be too far out. \u201cWe\u2019re way closer to The Matrix than people realize,\u201d he stated. \u201cIt\u2019s not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}