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 In order to create a truly alternate life, totally separate from the physical, to 'begin anew' in the virtual, and live as the person you were meant to be, rather than live with the deck of cards you were dealt when you were born, what are the very basics required?
A somewhat dated article now, still relevant, if using outdated examples, of the power of alternate, digital lives over the physical one.
 A second look at the use of personality constructs, both in Idoru and in our world. Why they are created, why they are needed, and most importantly of all: why they are no less than real themselves.
A wry article on setting up a thieves? guild and assassin?s guild ? essentially griefer guilds, within a roleplaying, gaming , or alternate life VR world.
A mainstream media piece on the growing explosion of augmented reality gaming - combining physical and virtual data as one, in order to play location-based games.
 Total immersion in an alternate reality is as old as the human race. Quite possibly they are even older than that. Dream realities, fantasies, campsite stories, the world of a good book. All stem from the desire to experience an alternative life, a different lifestyle, to be something different, or to escape what you are.
Organising even a handful of players into a cohesive, functional group for a roleplayed event is a nightmare for any persistent world. However, if you are not running a gameworld, or alternate life world, but desire a one-shot roleplay event with whoever is in world at the time, you can. Here is how to set it up.
If you run a virtual world, whose premise centres around a form of living or lifestyle significantly different from mainstream society; whether roleplay, persona play, or full blown alternate life, the last thing you desire is for people to enter it, completely ignoring the in-world culture and behaving any way they like. 
At CES 2009, Nvidea unveiled a system of active glasses. Specifically, shutter glasses. The frames alternate polarisation to block light out every second frame, so that each eye gets half the screen update rate of any normal monitor, but will work with a normal output stream just fine.
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Results by page (24/03/2009)
Called Xi, Sony promise "the world's first console-based Alternate Reality Game". The new experience, one of Sony's largest initiatives in Home to date, offers up secret areas of the world, and access is free to anyone wi...
(01/05/2009)
Philips is making available in the US its portable, wireless X-ray detector. The detector is designed to be used during complicated positionings, standard planes with immobile patients, or for a general convenience of radiology personnel wh...
(27/11/2009)
New cars have been tuning themselves for the better part of two decades now, so it should feel less impressive that Gibson has built a guitar that can smoothly do the same. And yet when you strum the Dark Fire for the first t...
(14/05/2007)
Gartner research have predicted that in five years time 80 percent of Internet users will have an alternate life within at least one virtual environment. "The collaborative and community-related aspects of these environments...
(27/07/2004)
PlayVault announced yesterday, that Artifact Entertainment ?Horizons: Empire of Istaria? has joined the PlayVault scheme. The scheme is intended to lessen the "Experience Treadmill" of switching between MMOs. Players spend ...
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