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To get a job, you'll need a Second Life

Sandals are OK when interviewing at Microsoft, at least in Second Life. Eager to pull as many individuals as possible into their parallel, alternate realities, technology companies have created a...

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Now, it's psyops for your Second Life

More than one way to skin a cat: Users of the Sentient World Simulation can use graphs, charts and even alternate reality avatars to visualize their information. U.S defense, intel and homeland...

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Helmet heads: devices connect AR with real world

Buggin’: One of the alternate reality headset designs at Holland’s AR+RFID Lab. The goal is to make the devices convenient and attractive enough to allow people to operate in both the real world and...

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New York Times rehashes "we're all in a sim" story

No mention of connections to science and technology cult, Yale University Back to the Future: Oxford University professor Nick Bostrum’s friends and Transhumanist cohorts, Natasha Vita-More and Max...

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New York Times: Let computers think for us

David Brooks (left) argues in his latest New York Times column that people should let cell phones, media players and personal computers do our thinking for us. Such devices, Brooks says,...

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Protect the head

A new videogame for the iPhone overrides instinctive compassion. Photo: CC/sean dreilinger A small sign of our psychopathic, degenerate, times: An iPhone app that promotes shaking babies to death, to...

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When reality isn't good enough…

…there’s always augmented reality: Augmented reality: Headgear is an issue. Photo: CC/Régis Gaidot There’s another dimension present, everywhere we go, that a growing number of technologists are...

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CDC dumps $1.6 million into virtual worlds

In her head, she's already there. Photo: CC/Bryan Fenstermacher [That's a lot of Lindens] I can’t even ride a bicycle in Second Life without my avatar getting stuck in motion, before peddling madly...

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ETs not part of futurists' vision

Not in Futurismic's future. (Image: Marcin Wichary/Flickr CC) Futurismic pays for fiction — $200 for a short story. But writers with an ET bent (think Romulans, greys, reptilians, and the like) need...

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My avatar's eating his hat

Can I call them, or what? Last month’s prediction: James Cameron’s Avatar: Fox’s Final Cut? | The Sci-Tech Heretic.

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