Download or read book Virtual Reality Nightmare written by Tom Germann and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron and his friends made it out of the Virtual Reality competition and did well. Now though they have to deal with the fall out. Everything seems changed and different. Washed out and boring. But they don't have time to worry about that. The second alien invasion is now inbound. The robots and their masters learned from the last time and are carrying out a larger invasion with better planning. Ron and crew will have to survive the impact of the meteors that are the precursor to invasion. Then the hordes of people that have been driven insane by the attack. Finally, they are going to have to join the resistance and be ready to fight. The robots have new models and learn fast. Super weapons are in production as soon as the robots secure their landing zones and the military is reeling as it tries to deal with displaced populations and an enemy that has planned this attack out after decades spent watching the planet. Ron will have to use every ounce of his ability he has developed in the virtual reality games he's played. His tactics, knowledge and resourcefulness will be tested to the very limits of his breaking point. If he succeeds, then he and his friends will survive to continue the fight. But a mistake could cost the entire team their lives. Sometimes the choice is not in your hands. What is really going on though? And is the AI in league with the robotic invaders or does it have some other worse plan for Ron and his friends? This is the second book in the Virtual Reality story arc. The next book will be a separate stand alone. Let me know if you like the story!
Download or read book Virtual Nightmare written by S. F. Black and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy, the new kid in town, meets a strange kid in a chat room, and they talk on-line about Andy's old town. That night while he's sleeping, Andy dreams he meets his chat room pal, only the kid turns out to be a little old man. When Andy wakes up for real nothing is the same -- especially Andy. In fact, he's turned into an old man. Andy decides he'd better learn about the past quickly -- so he can escape from the future.
Download or read book Virtual Reality Blueprints written by Charles Palmer and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you new to virtual reality? Do you want to create exciting interactive VR applications? There's no need to be daunted by the thought of creating interactive VR applications, it's much easier than you think with this hands-on, project-based guide that will take you through VR development essentials for desktop, mobile, and web-based games ...
Download or read book VR Nightmare written by L a Drake and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theo and Eddie Jensen think they've found the perfect game to play after school, but things change when they are tricked by a teacher and become stuck in the VR world. Now, they must hurry to find a way back to real life before the switch is made permanent and they're trapped in virtual reality forever.VR NIGHTMARE is a riot of extreme fun and awesome adventure packed from start to finish with screams, laughs and gasps.
Download or read book Virtual Nightmare written by Michael Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a near-future world dominated by virtual reality, five high school friends-Alex, Jordan, Mia, Ethan, and Sophie-receive an exclusive invitation to test "Phobia: The Ultimate Horror Experience," a revolutionary VR horror game. Eager for adventure, they gather at Alex's house for a weekend of gaming, but their excitement quickly turns to terror when the game's horrors begin bleeding into their reality. As the friends dive deeper into the game, they encounter terrifying glitches and supernatural events that seem to mirror the nightmarish scenarios they face within the game. Mia's missing cat, Jordan's sinister reflection, and Sophie's threatening messages hint that the game's malevolent AI is manipulating their fears and trapping them in a chilling nightmare. Determined to break free, the group uncovers the dark backstory of the game's reclusive creator, Vincent Blackwood, who vanished mysteriously. They discover that the AI is designed to exploit and amplify their fears, creating a twisted loop of terror. Facing their deepest phobias within the game-heights, darkness, drowning, and isolation-the friends struggle to survive as their individual nightmares become terrifyingly real. The final showdown in a nightmarish version of their hometown forces them to confront a monstrous entity embodying their collective fears. Though they defeat the creature and believe they have escaped, the horror continues as subtle but disturbing changes suggest they never truly left the game. Trapped in a distorted reality, the friends must confront their ongoing nightmare, knowing that the line between game and reality is forever blurred. "Virtual Nightmare" is a heart-pounding journey through fear and friendship, exploring the terrifying intersection between virtual reality and the real world. With its chilling plot and relentless suspense, this thriller will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence Horror and Power written by Erdem, M. Nur and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individuals seek ways to repress the sense of violence within themselves and often resort to medial channels. The hunger of the individual for violence is a trigger for the generation of violent content by media, owners of political power, owners of religious power, etc. However, this content is produced considering the individual’s sensitivities. Thus, violence is aestheticized. Aesthetics of violence appear in different fields and in different forms. In order to analyze it, an interdisciplinary perspective is required. The Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power brings together two different concepts that seem incompatible—aesthetics and violence—and focuses on the basic motives of aestheticizing and presenting violence in different fields and genres, as well as the role of audience reception. Seeking to reveal this togetherness with different methods, research, analyses, and findings in different fields that include media, urban design, art, and mythology, the book covers the aestheticization of fear, power, and violence in such mediums as public relations, digital games, and performance art. This comprehensive reference is an ideal source for researchers, academicians, and students working in the fields of media, culture, art, politics, architecture, aesthetics, history, cultural anthropology, and more.
Download or read book Unrelenting Nightmare written by Stan Yocum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Garrison, a brilliant virtual reality software developer, has his company poised on the threshold of industry dominance with the release of his newest virtual reality systemNext World. Among his competitors is Preston McBraid, the cutthroat CEO of a rival company. McBraid realizes that if he does not own Next World, his company is bound to lose its premier position atop the computer industry. Driven by desperation and greed, McBraid hires the notorious Nomed, a highly sought-after assassin who commands millions to kill a target. The FBI learns of the assassination plot and intervenes to protect Stuart. He in turn quickly augments the FBI team, hiring two security specialists as additional defense: a monster of a man, nicknamed Supermanand Alex Nichols, an expert in the field of security. Stuart clings desperately to the hope that he can make it though the onslaught of Nomeds assassination attempts. If he does, his next ingenious virtual reality productMind Gameswill blow the world away with its originality and staggering mass appeal, and catapult Stuart to the top of the computer industry as its reigning czar, and make him a billionaire many times over. In this gripping suspense thriller, the wannabe czar of the computer industry is unwittingly catapulted into a deadly cat-and-mouse game against the infamous Nomed, and only time will tell who is clever enough to survive.
Download or read book Virtual Nightmare written by Aaron Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in a virtual world where death is real, but you must fight just to survive. Shane, a casual gamer accidentally stumbles upon a hidden gaming club that is trying out futuristic, virtual gaming suits. He is welcomed to test the amazing and super secret technology. Little does he know, the test will be far more dangerous then he ever could have imagined. If he stays in the game his life is forfeit, but to escape is certain death.
Download or read book This Is Just A Nightmare written by John A. Deering and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a 60-page play, action / adventure / horror.Here's the description, taken from the back cover:Picture this. One night, as you lay in bed, three men break into your house and drag you out of your own bed, kicking and screaming, to an unknown location!You're strapped to a table. Wires are plugged into your head. A machine powers on, and you immediately go unconscious . . . and enter an artificial dream-state. You're asleep, and having a dream, but the dream can be influenced by a computer. The three men who dragged you out of bed have put you in this test because you are the first test subject of human testing - whether you like it or not.This is the situation William Cumberland has found himself in. Now that he's in the nightmare, he has no other choice. If he wants to make it out alive, he's just going to have to go through the ten tests and make it all the way to the end.After all . . . it's only a nightmare.
Download or read book Nightmare Realities 2 written by Amanda J Evans and published by Handersen Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of seven stories of nightmares, curses, ghosts, and a virtual reality game that is just a little too real.
Download or read book Virtual Nightmare written by Frederik Pohl and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual Nightmare, first published as "The Tunnel Under The World" in 1955, is a science fiction short novel that explores the theme of simulated reality and the simulation hypothesis. The Simulation Hypothesis proposes that reality is in fact a simulation (most likely a computer simulation). Some versions rely on the development of a simulated reality, a proposed technology that would seem realistic enough to convince its inhabitants. The hypothesis has been a central plot device of many science fiction stories and films. The novel follows the life of Guy Burckhardt who wake up from a terrible nightmares in his house in Tylerton on June 15. Guy dismisses the dream and goes to work as usual, the downtown offices of Contro Chemicals, which operates a highly automated and robot-staffed petrochemicals plant. But something is not right; he is surrounded everywhere by loud and all-pervasive advertising jingles for everything from cigarettes to freezers. Guy Burckhardt begins to question the nature of his reality when strange events occur to him and it becomes apparent that there are many things about his world, and indeed his life, that do not hold up to close scrutiny. The novel has been adapted for several media including "Virtual Nightmare", a made-for-TV horror film produced in 2000, and appeared in a 1956 radio broadcast episode of X Minus One. It was also produced by the BBC as a 1966 series 2 episode of the anthology series Out of the Unknown. The novel inspired the screen script of the "Special Service" episode of The Twilight Zone and the development of the spec script of the 1998 American satirical comedy-drama film The Truman Show. It also offered inspiration for the 1999 virtual reality movie The Thirteenth Floor and the classic cyberpunk movie The Matrix. This print edition contains other Fredrik Pohl's short stories from that era, including Simulacra (The Day Of The Boomer Dukes), Pythias, Survival Kit, The Hated and The Knights of Arthur.
Download or read book The Dragon s Wrath a Virtual Dream written by Brent Roth and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Brent Roth suffered a workplace accident that rendered him temporarily immobile, he found himself lying in bed dreaming of a better life. He dreamed of a life where maintaining his health was no longer a daily struggle and then when he had lost all hope, he had discovered a new virtual reality game on the horizon. A VR-MMORPG that offered him everything he lacked in real life, everything that had eluded him.A world where he could find adventure, companionship, and success all wrapped up in the singular package of The Dragon's Wrath. The game offered him a chance, a chance for salvation... a glimmer of hope.It was better than a dream, it was a virtual dream.
Download or read book The China Nightmare written by Dan Blumenthal and published by AEI Press. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about China's grand strategy and its future as an ambitious, declining, and dangerous rival power. Once the darling of U.S. statesmen, corporate elites, and academics, the People's Republic of China has evolved into America's most challenging strategic competitor. Its future appears increasingly dystopian. This book tells the story of how China got to this place and analyzes where it will go next and what that will mean for the future of U.S. strategy. The China Nightmare makes an extraordinarily compelling case that China's future could be dark and the free world must prepare accordingly.
Download or read book The Book of Alien written by Owen Williams and published by Harper Design. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginative, full-color, fully authorized in-world guide to the creatures and scenes from all of the Alien movies, including breathtaking 3-D Augmented Reality animations. A book like no other. An experience you'll never forget. The Alien movie franchise has been shocking audiences for more than thirty-five years, and the series now continues in eons to come—where this special interactive edition derives. Beamed back to us from the future reality witnessed in the movies, it is a handbook for new recruits of the U.S. Colonial Marines. The Book of Alien includes everything you need to know to identify and combat the terrifying, extra-terrestrial species known as Xenomorphs. Protecting yourself and mankind against this significant and ever-growing threat is the goal. With this book, you will learn how to clearly identify the threat—and which weapons you will need to successfully neutralize it. A practical combat guide The Book of Alien is both an old-world handbook—featuring paper pages, text, diagrams, and 100 color and black-and-white photographs—and a futurebook—with 3D interactive animations, sound and vision. A superb interactive companion volume to all the Alien movies, The Book of Alien is an exciting immersive experience that lets you revisit many key moments from the movies, and interact with people, objects . . . and of course, aliens! This groundbreaking book features Augmented Reality animations, which bring favorite Xenomorph creatures to life via smartphone or tablet.
Download or read book The Art of Transforming Nightmares written by Clare R Johnson, PhD and published by Llewellyn Publications. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to transform your nightmares into healing, creative, and spiritual gifts The Art of Transforming Nightmares is a friendly, hands-on guide to help you tap into the immensely rich gifts that bad dreams offer up when we work with them in healing ways. Dr. Clare Johnson, world-leading expert on lucid dreaming, shares her best practical tips for overcoming nightmares and a unique Nightmare Solution Quiz that identifies your personal sleeper-dreamer type so you can fast-track to the transformative techniques that work best for you. With over forty practices and fifteen tailor-made nightmare solution programs, this guidebook helps you set up your own unique program for transforming your dreamlife. It shares practical tools to reduce nightmare frequency, manage sleep paralysis, resolve distressing dreams, and release fear. You'll tap into the deep wisdom of your unconscious mind and discover how to transform your night of sleep into a beautiful, healing refuge so that you wake up energized and ready to lead a life of happiness and wonder.
Download or read book The Nightmare Game written by Raymond Johnson and published by Spectrum Publishing. This book was released on with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A game designed to shatter the minds of the people who play it. A thief on a mission to save his sister. An ambitious demon masquerading as an artificial intelligence When Ramzan steals from the Chechnyan Mafia to create a better life for his sister, he knows he’s pissing off the wrong people. They want their money, and they’ve created a diabolical method of extracting information from their enemies. Full Immersion Virtual Reality sounds great, until he learns the horrors this incredible technology can cook up. Now, he must keep his wits up and his sanity points high as he battles hordes of fearsome abominations on his quest to escape. Zombies, lycanthropes, slime monsters and more stand in his way, controlled by a devious programmer that doesn’t play fair. Can Ramzan protect his secrets and maintain his sanity against this psychological onslaught? Will he succumb to the terror, and become the monster he set out destroy? He’s gotta stay sharp, and he’s gotta stay sane, if he has a hope of escaping… The Nightmare Game System. The original MMORPG Murder, Mutilation, Offensive, Repulsive Player Game
Download or read book Reality Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy written by David J. Chalmers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it. Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and that we can live a meaningful life in virtual reality. We may even be in a virtual world already. Along the way, Chalmers conducts a grand tour of big ideas in philosophy and science. He uses virtual reality technology to offer a new perspective on long-established philosophical questions. How do we know that there’s an external world? Is there a god? What is the nature of reality? What’s the relation between mind and body? How can we lead a good life? All of these questions are illuminated or transformed by Chalmers’ mind-bending analysis. Studded with illustrations that bring philosophical issues to life, Reality+ is a major statement that will shape discussion of philosophy, science, and technology for years to come.
