When we got a chance to take part in a group discussion call with Ronald D. Moore about Virtuality , there was only one interrogative we wanted to ask him : How is this new show unlike fromStar Trek‘s holodeck episodes ?
Moore , Divine of Battlestar Galactica , did n’t seem to bear in mind our obnoxious question . Here ’s what he said :
Well , it ’s a different concept . The holodeck is a quad , and you would go into [ it ] and 3D form were created in front of you … This is truly a virtual world , much more consanguineous to a virtual headset . Whereas you have an experiential ability touch things [ you ’re not going into an literal space ] , so it ’s a different sorting of mechanics . At the story storey , we ’re not explain the idea that if you conk out in the practical space , you die in the material blank . [ Instead , if you die in the virtual space , you just fire up up . ]
It ’s more like gaming is now . You gage , you do n’t get kill , you waken up . We ’re using it much more psychologically now . The experiences that the astronauts have aboard the starship in the virtual space are things that are psychologically motivated . They go in there in and do thing for amusement . [ And this discover something about their personality , and where they want to drop their time . ] When things go wrong in that blank space , how is it go to affect them in the real world ? How does the virtual outer space affect the veridical human race storyline , and vice versa ?
He did take , in response to another caller-out , that Virtuality ’s virtual headsets are jolly like to the ones you ’ll see in the BSG prequel Caprica . The chief difference is that in Virtuality , there ’s less of a shared practical public , and it ’s not an infinite space with tons of orgy room and different environments . Rather , each crewmember has a private practical reality mental faculty , which can be shared but is somewhat limited . The show conveys the practical nature of these surroundings by shoot all the VR scenes in greenscreen , rather of a real mise en scene .
And Moore promises that Virtuality is less serious than the post - apocalyptic BSG . “ There ’s more humour probably in the first 10 minutes of Virtuality than there was in the whole run of Battlestar , ” he enounce .
Virtuality is much more about the stress and handling and crossbreeding - tensions among a group of citizenry “ in a metallic element tube going in a straight line for a decade or so . ” In summation to serve in this deep - space exploration mission , they ’re also take part in a reality TV show for the witness at house . And the crew was choose as much for their diversity and mix of characters — for this reality show — as for their skills , which gives rising slope to question over whether the best people for the mission were choose . Another source of tenseness : when the crew see news program from Earth ( including intelligence of major bionomical disasters ) they do n’t do it if it ’s true , or if they ’re just being fed direful news to make the reality TV show better consider .
These three elements : deep space exploration , VR , and reality goggle box are “ ruffianly to hoodwink , ” Moore admit . “ It ’s a very challenging musical composition . That was the response on the part of Fox when they experience it : It ’s a very complicated bit with a flock of move office . ” Fox feel the two - minute pilot would have been a great feature film , but were n’t certain if it could launch a video series . But Moore still holds out hope that it could be picked up as a serial publication if the response to the June 26 airing is positive enough . It ’s also possible the story could be keep as a comic volume or as another telecasting movie .
Also , keep your oculus peel in the next few Day for some special web - only message created for Virtuality :
There is a series of webisodes were created for Virtuailty … The webisodes were episodes of the realness show . You would see pieces of the world show as it ’s broadcast back to Earth . That was part of the pitching [ to the meshing . If the show had been picked up , you would have been able-bodied to watch installment of Edge of Never , the reality serial , on the web site . ] The concept and architectural plan would have been that you may enter on to the web site and there would be information included that would not be approachable to people watching the show . If you wanted to eff everything that is go on . The astronauts may not be aware of how the show is being consider back on Earth , they may not infer how things are . My intellect is right now fox is going to put them up on the Facebook page for Edge of Never In the next few days you ’ll be able to download or look at these webisodes .
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