Tell me about it.

[ Reaching down, he scoops up a handful of the sand and watches it as it filters down between his fingers. It feels like the real sand from home. Hell, it even smells like it. ]

But if you turn the program off, it's all gone. [ He snaps his fingers. ] Just like that.

[ Brushing off his hand, Wash looks up at him. ]

We had simulators where I'm from. And holographic displays. Some of them were pretty lifelike, but this is lightyears beyond that.