Nested Virtual machines

Microsoft has enabled exposing the virtualized machine to hypervisor features.
With these features turned on you can nest a virtual machine in a virtual machine in a virtual machine..

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It's pretty wild, but I can't see any actual usage cases (I don't believe in stopping progress just because you can't see the application though).

Do the Wachowsky Brothers watch Star Trek?!

I just watched an episode of Star Trek Voyager, Episode 39 The Thaw.

This episode begins with finding a planet that had gone through environmental collapse, and its inhabitants developed a stasis system that linked their minds inside of a virtual environment.

Which then developed a frightening clown from their collective fears.

All the same the stasis system and the linked virtual environment is very similar to concepts in The Matrix. :)

Makes you wonder which came first.

Feel free to write more similar references in the comments.