Is there a TV show?! I loved that book! Please don't be like Altered Carbon.

I had the exact same reaction as I read the comment :D

Michael Bacall is adapting it for HBO. He worked with Edgar Wright to adapt Scott Pilgrim, so I am cautiously optimistic.

I was under the impression that Altered Carbon was very popular. Do you not think it's very good, or is it that it doesn't do the book justice?

Snow Crash was VR. This is _exactly_ technology that William Gibson described in Virtual Light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Light

But this display does use photons, it shoots lasers into your eyes.

The glasses in Virtual Light "got these little EMP drivers around the lenses, work your optic nerves direct".

Hiro uses something like this (laser projecting into his retina) for his computer in Snow Crash.

EDIT: Actually he wears goggles that the laser shines onto, so a little different