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New Release / Giveaway: Androids & Aliens – J. Scott Coatsworth

December 8, 2022 by scott

J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci fi collection out: Androids & Aliens. And there’s a giveaway. Androids & Aliens is Scott’s third short story collection – eight sci fi and sci-fantasy shorts that run the gamut from cyborgs to (comedic) alien invasions: Rise: Because of the rise in sea levels associated with climate change, Venice vanished beneath the lagoon half a century ago. But what if we could bring it back? Ping: I was a real estate agent by day and a museum curator in the evenings at a sci-fi museum. What I saw one night changed everything. … Read more

Review: Virtual Insanity – Kevin Klehr

September 19, 2022 by scott

Genre: Sci-Fi, Dystopian LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book When Tayler is sent to Beta City to help its citizens disconnect from the all-knowing Social Media Central, he becomes the target of a deadly game. Augmented reality players wearing head to toe gaming suits believe he is the Enemy Alien, and they shoot to kill. So Tayler is forced to hide in a secret bunker, trapped, with no way to escape this urban nightmare. And as his friends hatch a plan to get him back home, they find the person toying … Read more

NEW RELEASE: Twisted – J.S. Frankel

January 19, 2022 by scott

QSFer J.S. Frankel has a new queer YA LITRPG Fantasy book out: Twisted. Chivalry isn’t dead. It just wears a skirt. High schoolers Charlie Matthews, Martin Anderson, and Sharon Collins win a contest to play an interactive-interfacing type of medieval game as the avatars of their favorite characters. Their mission: fight monsters, storm the castle, and capture the evil king. Things go terribly wrong, though, when Charlie wakes up as Angella of Avernon, the lead female character in the game. While she happens to be the most powerful avatar around, he also finds out that they’ve been infected with a … Read more

SCIENCE: AI is Crossing the Uncanny Valley

October 16, 2018 by scott

The tech world’s latest virtual assistant looks so realistic, you might mistake her for an actual human. Apple has Siri, and Amazon has Alexa. But the lifelikeness of both are dwarfed by Mica: a prototype that Magic Leap, a highly regarded augmented-reality startup, unveiled at its conference Wednesday. Mica isn’t just a voice assistant. She’s something you can actually see if you wear the company’s augmented-reality glasses, called Magic Leap One. Mica looks and acts like a human — she makes eye contact and offers a warm smile, along with other human-like expressions. Experts say Mica is a breakthrough in … Read more

NEWS: Losing Your Partner to VR

February 17, 2017 by scott

Virtual reality can be pretty engrossing. Like, really engrossing. Comedian and YouTube star Natalie Tran demonstrated just how all-consuming the VR experience can be in “VR Partner Life,” a video posted on Monday. It shows her partner, Rowan, playing what appears to be some sort of driving game. Meanwhile, Tran demonstrates some expert karaoke and dance moves as she cycles through the varied emotional stages of losing your man to another woman a video game. By Hilary Hanson – Full Story at the Huffington Post

Technology: Oculus Rift Adds Touch to Virtual Reality

January 9, 2017 by scott

The Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset earlier this year to much fanfare, but it was missing something that would have made playing around in the digital world even better: the ability to move your hands independently. Oculus has released a pair of new controllers, called Touch, which give you a controller to use with each hand. It’s hard for me to overstate how much of a difference this makes in terms of immersion. Everything feels different when your arm and hand movements are reflected into the digital world — pointing at objects, reaching for handholds and even pulling a trigger is … Read more