virch

English

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Noun

virch (countable and uncountable, plural virches)

  1. (informal, science fiction) virtual reality
    • 1995, Michael Bishop, “Cri de Coeur”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection, page 428:
      (He won't use virch goggles; their simulated environments cut him off too thoroughly from me, and that scares him.)
    • 2002, Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth, page 108:
      "Yeah. Why vid, anyway? Why not virch?"
    • 2015, James Bradley, Clade, unnumbered page:
      Knowing Noah will be content in his virch for as long as he is left undisturbed, she begins mapping new ideas […]
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