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 assistants have become commonplace in modern technology, but Microsoft thinks it knows how to push its Cortana a step beyond the rest. 1  Microsoft's Cortana, a personal virtual assistant, can crack jokes about the Halo games (where the name Cortana originates) and tell country and language-specific jokes. Josh Miller/CNET. We live in a world where we're starting to talk to our computers, but it still feels like the device on the receiving end is a machine.