Justine only goes to the virtual reality exhibition in the hope she might get lucky with fit hunk Alex. Instead she gets unlucky with an Alternative Reality machine and leaves the exhibition as Jake.Once she's got over the shock, Justine starts to see the potential of her new situation. As Jake she has the opportunity to hang out with the lads and find out what really makes them tick. But when her real self develops a major crush on her virtual self, things start to get just a bit too complicated.. .

Justine only goes to the virtual reality exhibition in the hope she might get lucky with fit hunk Alex. Instead she gets unlucky with an alternative reality machine and leaves the exhibition as Jake.

This exciting collection tours virtual reality in both its current therapeutic forms and its potential to transform a wide range of medical and mental health-related fields. Extensive findings track the contributions of VR devices, systems, and methods to accurate assessment, evidence-based and client-centered treatment methods, and—as described in a stimulating discussion of virtual patient technologies—innovative clinical training. Immersive digital technologies are shown enhancing opportunities for patients to react to situations, therapists to process patients’ physiological responses, and scientists to have greater control over test conditions and access to results. Expert coverage details leading-edge applications of VR across a broad spectrum of psychological and neurocognitive conditions, including: Treating anxiety disorders and PTSD. Treating developmental and learning disorders, including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Assessment of and rehabilitation from stroke and traumatic brain injuries. Assessment and treatment of substance abuse. Assessment of deviant sexual interests. Treating obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Augmenting learning skills for blind persons. Readable and relevant, Virtual Reality for Psychological and Neurocognitive Interventions is an essential idea book for neuropsychologists, rehabilitation specialists (including physical, speech, vocational, and occupational therapists), and neurologists. Researchers across the behavioral and social sciences will find it a roadmap toward new and emerging areas of study.

Have you ever wondered why people act so differently online compared to reality? Why are cybersex and online sexual relations so easy for people to participate in? Why do married people cheat online? And why do people often play the opposite gender? This paper answers many questions reguarding the myriad of ways people are using online roleplaying to explore sexuality in various ways. Some playfully encounter others and are empowered by the experience. Others are lead into a world where their dark desires and fetishes can be explored safely. In the end this paper will illuminate you about the world of virtual sexuality and about the psychology of the people who play intensely in it. Learn about the new world of cybersexuality here.

Virtual and augmented reality raise significant questions for law and policy. When should virtual world activities or augmented reality images count as protected First Amendment ‘speech’, and when are they instead a nuisance or trespass? When does copying them infringe intellectual property laws? When should a person (or computer) face legal consequences for allegedly harmful virtual acts? The Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality addresses these questions and others, drawing upon free speech doctrine, criminal law, issues of data protection and privacy, legal rights for increasingly intelligent avatars, and issues of jurisdiction within virtual and augmented reality worlds.

The Microsoft interdisciplinary scientist largely credited with popularizing virtual reality reflects on his lifelong relationship with technology, showing VR's ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species and how the brain and body connect to the world. By the author of You Are Not a Gadget. --Publisher.

Sexual Reality marks Susie Bright's return to politics and passion, jealousy and risk- in an intimate look at the human sexual condition. Chapters include: The Story of O Birthday Party, Strip Tea: A Most Unusual Tea Party, Undressing Camille Paglia, Egg Sex: Pregnancy and a Mother's Sex Life, Blindsexual- What Every Bisexual Needs to Know, and, When No Means I Didn't Know It Would Be Like This. Erica Jong says: "Susie Bright is the genuine arcticle; she proves the point that the muse screws, that all creativity is sexual, and that the juiciest people write the most delectable books."

Drawn in hazy gray pencil and printed in blue pantone ink, this book is about Elizabeth, an exotic dancer in cyberspace, and Carlos, who was just fired from the last human-staffed oil rig, attempting to keep their romance alive. When they realize that their bodies are full of artificial organs and they live almost entirely online, they begin to question what being human actually means. Do our ancestral, or even animal, instincts eventually kick in, or are we transcending the limits of our bodies? When an unplanned pregnancy is caused by an AI hack, Elizabeth must decide if the child is the next step in evolution ― or a glitch that will wipe out humanity once and for all.

Virtual Reality & Sex is an exploration of the merging of technology and sex and what it might mean for humanity. The book is not only a guide to what already exists within the strange world of Virtual Reality and AR sex, but also a look at what the future promises to bring into our bedrooms. Our most carnal instinct is about to be augmented - and with the mighty powers of remote-controlled Internet vibrators, creepy silicon sex dolls and robots, it's going to be a hell of a ride.