I walked to my door and knocked, a cute digital voice spoke.
"Howdy Brandon, come on in!" I heard a click and the door swung open. I was greeted by the holographic image of Maddie, my electronic assistant. I wrote her A.I. when I was 16, since then she had been constantly studying the world, consuming knowledge from the web and myself. It was my 18th birthday today and I had just returned from the birthday party my friends threw for me at their apartment. I had designed Maddie to have the likeness of an anime character, and boy did she look good. Back in 2068, last year we had finally figured out the power of the Fourth Dimension, and figured out how to utilize it. Now there were rare 4d projectors available, which had the ability to make holograms that could interact with the physical world. Fortunately these weren't being used for malicious purposes, due to being so difficult to get a hold of. I personally got mine through my grandfather, the designer.
My current occupation was professional gaming, I earned money by doing live streams of the Virtual Reality MMORPG known as "HoloG". I had streamed yesterday and earned a whopping $2,000 from my loyal subscribers and donators. I hung up my coat and went threw myself down on my chair. Groping about blindly, I found the virtual reality headset somewhere on the desk, almost falling off my table. I gingerly set it upon my head, not wanting to disrupt any of my brainwaves. The headset worked by replacing the waves of the virtual world with the ones of your real world, occasionally you'd get up and walk around like you did in the game, but that was to keep you healthy, sitting down too much would end up in damage to your legs. After a bright burst of color the the HUD pulled up, if you could still call it that. I called forth the cube that had the cinematic of animated combat.
"Activate HoloG" I said. Immediately I was plunged into the game. I reappeared in the Hartshire Inn that I had logged off at.
"All systems green, how are you feeling?" Maddie said.
