Rasmussem, Inc. is a fictional company in Vivian Vande Velde's books User Unfriendly and Heir Apparent. Vivian Vande Velde (born 1951, Rochester New York) is an American Author who writes books primarily aimed at young adults User Unfriendly is a novel by American author Vivian Vande Velde. For the usage of the term see Heir apparent. Heir Apparent is a Science fiction / Fantasy novel by young The company owns and operates a chain of gaming centers where people can play advanced virtual reality computer games which are so realistic that you feel like you are there. Virtual reality ( VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a Computer-simulated environment be it a real or imagined one
The plot of User Unfriendly involves hacker Arvin Rizalli and his friends and their usage of an illegal copy of a Rasmussem, Inc. game. Heir Apparent involves Rasmussem directly, and a problem with demonstrators damaging equipment while a player is still connected.
The founder of the company is Nigel Rasmussem, a sixteen-year-old prodigy who created it when he was only fourteen. List of child prodigies|Fictional child prodigies A child prodigy is a one who masters one or more skills or arts at an early age Nigel, ironically, has to work at the concession stand at one of his own company's gaming centers because his parents limit the amount of time he is allowed to have on the computer. A computer is a Machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions.