Far Side Virtual is a 2011 album by James Ferraro, released digitally and on vinyl by the label Hippos in Tanks. The album marked Ferraro's transition from his previous style of lo-fi drone music toward a sharply produced electronic aesthetic. Far Side Virtual is inspired by and deliberately evokes elevator music and sound design found in obsolete computer sound effects. Ferraro said he first conceived of the album for release as a series of ringtones, but later extended them to full songs with short pop structures. Listeners using songs from the album as ringtones was, to him, the completion of the project.