List of ‘Blade Runner’ VR experiences

What is it about the sheer atmosphere of these two rich, futuristic cyberpunk movies, and now Blade Runner 2049? Mature, visionary slices of sci-fi, the first of which truly introduced a world disconnected from reality and struggling to reconnect with substance and hope, with a world abandoned and living without meaning or attachment to nature, and where our creations walk among us and have become us.

It was as bleak as it was beautiful. Fans even fell in love with the dark dystopia, the cool tech sounds, dreamy soundtrack and cyberpunk elements, but original author Philip K Dick ‘s considerable list of challenging novels are bleak, lonely, paranoid — disconnected — sci-fi trips. Yet the characters often reach some kind of solace, acceptance or redemption.

The book on which Blade Runner is based — ‘ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ‘ is still a great read to accompany the films, and actually has more to say about the world of Rick Deckard. It still holds huge, underrated relevance and is full of warnings about our world today, and beyond. What is our present reality? How much of it is defined by our own level of empathy and connection towards it?

VR has started to bring us closer to the Blade Runner ‘dreamy’ dystopia, for whatever reasons.