Un científico logra incrementar de forma extraordinaria la inteligencia de un deficiente mental mediante una combinación de drogas y realidad virtual. Pero el poder cerebral de este individuo pronto escapa al control del científico
Johnny, un joven del siglo XXI con chips implantados, se gana la vida transportando datos valiosos que almacena en su cerebro. Dos científicos lo contratan para que haga de mensajero de una información robada. Demasiado material para su capacidad de almacenaje, pero Johnny no duda en inyectarse una ampliación de memoria y cumplir con el encargo. Sin embargo, debe acabar el trabajo y deshacerse de ese material si no quiere morir a causa de la sobrecarga. La vida se le complica cuando una organización criminal desea hacerse con la información o, lo que es lo mismo, con su cabeza.
El mismo cortador de césped, que tiempo atrás se convirtió en un superhombre gracias a la realidad virtual, tiene ahora la llave del futuro en el chip que necesita para completar su imperio ciberespacial. Y no está dispuesto a detenerse ante nada ni ante nadie.
2005. Jimi Dini (Christopher Lambert) acepta el proyecto de diseñar Nirvana, un videojuego interactivo que debe entregar poco antes de que terminen las fiestas de Año Nuevo. Muy deprimido por el abandono de su pareja, Lisa (Emanuelle Seigner), Jimi ha caído en la amargura y la apatía. Conforme ajusta el programa, el ordenador le avisa de que un virus ha entrado en el sistema y se ha incorporado a Nirvana; el efecto de la contaminación se traduce en un estado de autoconciencia de Solo (Diego Abatantuono), el personaje central que habita los distintos niveles de dificultad del juego. Entonces Solo le pide a Jimi que lo borre del programa para ahorrarle la tortura de habitar un mundo repetitivo en estado consciente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Den-noh Coil, Coil — A Circle of Children, is a Japanese science fiction anime television series depicting a near future where semi-immersive augmented reality technology has just begun to enter the mainstream. The series takes place in the fictional city of Daikoku, a hotbed of AR development with an emerging city-wide virtual infrastructure. It follows a group of children as they use AR glasses to unravel the mysteries of the half real, half Internet city, using a variety of illegal software tools, techniques, and virtual pets to manipulate the digital landscape. Den-noh Coil, in development for over a decade, is the series director debut of Japanese animator Mitsuo Iso. It premiered on NHK Educational TV on May 12, 2007. Due to the animators involved in its production and its unusually high-profile television broadcast time slot, Den-noh Coil was highly anticipated.
.hack follows several young players as they navigate the vast, mysterious MMORPG known as “The World” – a place, it turns out, that is sometimes impossible to leave.
Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.
Spicy City is an animated television series which was created by Ralph Bakshi for HBO. The series lasted for one season which consisted of six episodes.
Three computer-savvy kids, Naoto, Yuka and Ippei created their own videogame superhero, but then discover it possessed by an inter-dimensional police officer, Gridman. Pursuing an evil program called Kahn Digifer, he merges with Naoto and fights Kahn Digifer's digitized monsters in order to prevent the computerized demon from wreaking havoc on the Human World.
A man uncovers a dangerous web of schemes and deceit when he accepts the presidency of a TV company.
.hack//Liminality is an OVA series directly related to the .hack video game series for the PlayStation 2, with the perspective of Liminality focused on the real world as opposed to the games' MMORPG The World. Liminality was separated into four volumes; each volume was released with its corresponding game. The initial episode is 45 minutes long, while subsequent episodes are 30 minutes long. The video series was directed by Koichi Mashimo, written by Kazunori Itō with music by Yuki Kajiura. Primary Animation production was handled by Mashimo's studio Bee Train which collaborated for the four games as well as handled major production on .hack//Sign.
In the year 2100, children have become Web divers and uploaded their consciousness onto global computer networks. They play in a cyber park called the Magical Gate. One day, a mysterious computer virus appears and begins to destroy the Magical Gate. Programs called Web Knights were created to protect the children from the virus but the virus turned all the Web Knights against the children. The only Web Knight to escape this is Gladion. Gladion seeks the help of Kento Yuki, a Web Diver who is in the fourth grade.
Computer programmer Ken Gemberling – the titular "Fat Guy" – is accidentally sucked into his computer and learns he is destined to save cyberspace from a variety of evils.
