Modern VR is ‘like the dog who catches a car but doesn’t know what to do with it’

The modern virtual reality market is new, but the idea of virtual worlds has existed in fiction for decades.

Austin Grossman is a sci-fi author who has written books such as the techno-thriller You: A Novel. He also helped write games like PC classics Deus Ex and System Shock as well as the more recent Dishonored series. At the GamesBeat Summit today in Berkley, California, Grossman discussed in an on-stage interview with Kim Pallister, VR expert at Intel, how sci-fi stories from our past can tell us about the future of virtual reality — and how we’re struggling how to deal with it.