Every moment that he’s stuck in virtual reality, Kirito is stuck away from his friends, family, and love of his life.
Unlike the NerveGear and AmuSphere, the Soul Translator puts its user into a dream-like simulation where time passes faster within virtual reality.
After an hour-long episode of setup for what was to come in this season’s Sword Art Online: Alicization, our hero Kirito finds himself in a virtual world using an experimental next-generation virtual reality machine, the Soul Translator.