Showing posts with label virtual reality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtual reality. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 August 2016

Augmented Reality Gets Too Real

Once upon a time, gods and angels came unto the people in the night and had their way with them.  Later, demonic succubi and incubi were the culprits.  More recently, sinister alien Reptilians and butt-probing Greys did the deed.  Today, these strange hauntings have adapted to the shifting zeitgeist, and a woman in Moscow claims to have been raped by a Pokemon.

Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Virtual Reality and the Holocaust

A "virtual Holocaust survivor" who lived through an extermination camp and a death march will now be educating children by "upsetting the viewer’s sense of comfort." 

The interactive hologram and associated artificial intelligence answers questions with selections from 25 hours of footage of Pinchas Gutter, creating a vivid and convincing testimony intended to "jolt another world into your own." 

Historical investigation of the event remains verboten.

Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Space-Awe For Health

The replicability of the overview effect, whereby seeing the Earth from space induces a life-changing sense of wonder, could lead to virtual reality awe machines.  Alternatively, this may just tell us that those who go to the heavens come back lighter.