Rizwan Virk
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Rizwan Virk is Executive Director of Play Labs @ MIT, a video game program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a co-founder and investor in a number of video game startups including Tapjoy, Telltale Games and Discord. His new book is The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics, and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game
22 years after The Matrix, simulation hypothesis movies are booming again
The late 1990s were arguably when simulation hypothesis movies burst into the popular consciousness -- but now they're making a big comeback in 2021.
What would it take to build a Matrix-level simulation of reality?
What would it take, technologically speaking, to build a real version of the Matrix? Now that we're rapidly approaching the point at which such a thing will be possible, MIT computer scientist Rizwan Virk explores what we'd need to do to build a Matrix-level simulation