The world of Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) offers a display that is short of actually connecting your brain to the Internet.
For instance, eyewear connected to a computer provides total immersion in the matrix.
He is wearing goggles that wrap halfway round his head; the bows of the goggles have little earphones that are plugged into his outer ears.
The earphones have some built-in noise cancellation features. This sort of thing works best on steady noise...
The goggles throw a light, smoky haze across his eyes, and reflect a distorted wide-angle view of a brilliantly lit boulevard that stretches off into an infinite blackness. This boulevard does not actually exist; it is a computer-generated view of an imaginary place.
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