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Long Before Virtuality, Another Star Trek Alum Tried To Get Edgy With The Holodeck
Melinda Snodgrass is best known for writing the Star Trek episode where Data's personhood gets put on trial. But in the mid-1990s, she created Star Command, which took Trek's holodeck much, much further. Just check out this holo-torture sequence. Edgy! More »How Is Virtuality Different Than Star Trek's Holodeck?
Win Fame and Prizes in Our Scifi Sims Contest
With The Sims 3 hitting the shelves, it's time to take your avatars to the place they've always belonged: outer space. Or maybe inner space. We want you to turn your Sims games into science fiction masterpieces and win prizes. More »Discover The Secrets Of Ron Moore's 10-Year Space Probe
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Not simply content with developing technology to one day allow you to upload your brain, scientists are working to upload and re-create your entire anatomy into a computer. Who needs this "real life" stuff, anyway? More »Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven
Is there life after death? Maybe, if you're wired. After all, death is just a failure of storage media. Science fiction is full of people who've died in meatspace, only to live on in cyberspace. Here's our inventory of cyber-Heaven. More »6 More Heroes Who Might Still Be Trapped In Virtual Reality
Get Away From It All By Traveling The Multiverse
Travel Inside The Horrifying Mind Of A Cyborg Killer, In "Offline"
A rogue scientist goes inside the mind of a cyber-soldier to try and reprogram him and redeem his humanity, in the independent film Offline, from director Matthew Santoro. The trailer, featuring stark dystopian visuals and nightmarish distortions, is below. More »6 Characters Who Escaped Virtual Prisons... Or Did They?
Star Trek's Absolute Worst Holodeck Adventures
Star Trek used to be exploring strange new worlds, but at some point it turned into a never-ending parade of terrible holographic trifles. Here are the ten absolute worst. More »7 Failed Virtual Reality Technologies
Indie Science Fiction Film Tackles Virtual Reality And The War On Terror
The upcoming indie science fiction film In-World War combines a DIY ethic, virtual reality, the War on Terror, and the loss of identity into a globetrotting dark comedy. Ah, so that's where all the originality in movie-making went. More »Virtual Sex: Cheating or Not?
You've asked yourself this question 1000 times. When you put on your virtual dolphin suit and do terrible things to that giant squid in your favorite virtual world, does your spouse have the right to be angry? At last, we have the definitive answer. More »How To React To Your VR Environment
How convincing is virtual reality? To our conscious mind, not at all (Seriously, have you seen Second Life?), but to our subconsciousnesses? Well, it depends how real everyone else thinks it is, apparently. More »The Best And Worst Of Virtual Music Video Worlds
The Dumbest Holodeck Episodes Of All Time
It's a terrible cliche — the television episode where our intrepid hero goes inside the cyber-world and things start going terribly wrong. Star Trek owns the holographic disaster story, with its litany of holodeck mishaps, but plenty other shows have gone there. Here are the 10 worst holodeck stories. Ever. More »The 5 Science Fiction Tales That Made Us Love Virtual Reality
Ronald D. Moore's Ten-Year Space Mission Launches Early
We've got a slew of promo pictures from Ronald D. Moore's Virtuality two hour TV premiere, whose release date has moved up. So take a gander at the faces who will be slipping in and out of their own virtual worlds, while on a long trip into the black. More »Win Fame And Prizes In Our Scifi Sims Contest
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