The movies Virtuosity and Gamer are in some ways, like two stories that are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
"In Los Angeles, Lt. Parker Barnes and John Donovan are testing a virtual reality system that is going to be used for training police officers. The two are tracking down a serial killer named SID 6.7 at a restaurant in virtual reality. SID (short for Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous, a VR amalgam of the most violent serial killers throughout history) causes Donovan to go into shock, killing him. The director overseeing the project, before Commissioner Elizabeth Deane and her associate, William Wallace, orders the programmer in charge of creating SID, Dr. Darrel Lindenmeyer, to shut down the project..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuosity#Plot (1995)
Virtuosity is an interesting story about a psycho runaway AI-VR program that escapes into the physical world. In essence, it's a digital entity that wants to unleash its monstrous ways upon the world.
In Gamer, a psycotic computer programmer is enthralled with the prospect of using nanotechnology to turn some people into remote-controlled puppets.
"In 2034, computer programmer Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) invents self-replicating nanites that replace brain tissue and allow humans to control other humans' actions and see through their eyes. The first application of Castle's "Nanex" technology is a virtual community life simulation game, Society, which allows gamers to manipulate live actors as their avatars. Society becomes a worldwide sensation, making Castle the richest man in the world. He then creates Slayers, a first-person shooter where the "characters" are death-row prisoners using real weapons in specially created arenas. Unlike Society actors, Slayers participants are not paid; instead, they volunteer in exchange for the promise that any Slayer who survives 30 matches will earn his freedom (though no one ever has).
John "Kable" Tillman (Butler) is the crowd's favorite, having survived a record 27 matches (no inmate before him has managed to last more than ten). He is exclusively controlled by Simon (Lerman), a seventeen-year-old superstar gamer from a wealthy family.
An activist organization called the "Humanz" hacks a talk-show interview with Castle and claims that his technology will one day be used to control people against their will..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamer_(2009_film)#Plot
The 'Gamer' Movie... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwRYze6ZikU , https://www.youtube.com/c/Joeseppi/videos
In the first Avatar movie, genetic ET copies are grown. Then a person can remotely control their physical avatar like a puppet. As long as people want to be free in this worlds reality, they might want to think twice about ever fully becoming someone's DNA Avatar or VR puppet.
