Virtual reality becomes reality for folks afflicted with the Perma Effect. D. Rus' AlterWorld is the story of a terminal cancer patient who transfers his life into an MMO. This is genre I've meant to explore a bit and Rus sets up a great series in this, his first installment.
virtual assistant definition: (1) An individual who performs administrative functions for clients. See human virtual assistant. (2) An application that lets people ask questions by speaking in their natural language and listening to verbal answers. Altho...
Virtual reality has been notoriously difficult to define over the years. Many people take virtual to mean fake or unreal, and reality to refer to the real world. This results in an oxymoron. The actual definition of virtual, however, is to have the effect of being such without actually being such.