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, they're still nothing more than video games. Hiro's not so poor, yet, that he would go and write video games for this company.
(Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam, 1993, 39)
