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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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...
View ArticleHelmet 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleNew 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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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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleCDC 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...
View ArticleETs 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...
View ArticleMy 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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