i can't afford 'airtime' in an aircraft simulator, but maybe, just maybe, i could build my own.. Let me introduce Noah Zerkin, an inventor and designer of augmented reality technology. As i understand it, augmented reality is VR/data inserted into our field of view so we can...
The coliseum announcer's voice reverberates throughout the auditorium. The crowd is ecstatic in anticipation - vying to catch a glimpse of the two gladiators: Arthur and Satan. Arthur wields Excalibur, forged by his father years before .. Satan wields Stormbringer, the sword...
Einstein in his later life kept contradicting himself so it was difficult for anyone to pay any serious attention to him. Brilliance has a way of leaning towards insanity. Both Einstein and Bohm suffered from this....
For the purpose of illustration, i will use SeSAm simulation free-ware to discuss a serious issue relating to simulating conscious agents. There are 16 simulations provided with SeSAm and one of them is titled:...
Agent absolute minimum requirements:has a unique identificationmobilityability to perceive local environmentability to manipulate local environment limited by physical lawsability to communicate with nearby agents via textrule-base list, ability to access list and add...
About two years ago, i proposed using genetic programming to breed conscious agents in a virtual reality. GP is a paradigm recently championed by John Koza, http://www.genetic-programming.com/ , which has some very powerful applications. An agent,...
As readers might be familiar, when I capitalize, I indicate the archetype of something. So understand as typed in the title of this essay, Truth has a special meaning - an ultimate truth above and beyond all truths. If you are Christian or Muslim, I suppose you'd call it...
Researchers are seeing positive results after experimenting veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder with video game therapy. A realistic video game, Virtual Iraq, is being tested in the United States to see if it can help veterans feel more comfortable with...
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This is another in the series of Cyber-Or by Dr. Moshe Dror. He just keeps writing about the interesting connections between community and social networking. Enjoy."By Rabbi Dr. Moshe Dror Social networking (Net 2.0) will not supersede what we call “Organized Religion”...
Once again Moshe Dror explores the cyber or of the new paradigm shift of participation in ritual. " By Rabbi, Dr. Moshe Dror When we think of the Synagogue, we often think of its Hebrew term- Bet Knesset. The word Synagogue is from the ancient Greek: meaning The House of...
This is another in this series of blogs by Rabbi, Dr. Moshe Dror on the Cyber Or generation. " By Rabbi, Dr. Moshe Dror We are talking about the Jewish Community. We experience the community when we can be together and share all kinds of interests. We tend to think of...
This is, in a word, insane! EXCERPT: "Economic activities associated with virtual worlds may present an emerging area of noncompliance, in part, because the IRS has not issued guidance about whether and how taxpayers should report such activities,"By Jacqui Cheng | January...
"On the Internet, nothing travels faster than a tip on how to score a bargain. Especially in an economic downturn.With online retail sales falling this month for the first time, Internet merchants are offering...
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This is a very funny article by Paul Carr, and worth reading if you ever thought (or currently think) that Second Life is lame. But I am posting it here primarily because it contains the news that there was a full time reporter from Reuters posted to cover the Second Life...
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The father of the boy who committed suicide live on the Internet has said how appalled he is at the audience reaction to his son's death. Some of the audience egged him on, and Abraham Biggs Sr says those who...
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