Virtually Me - Chapter One

“Hey Vic, you’ve got to see this!”

“What?”

Trev was pointing at his phone screen. “They finally did it!”

“Did what?” Vic was trying to look at Trev’s phone, but he was waving it around excitedly. Vic grabbed the phone. It was on the Adult Entertainment News website. Of course. Trev was kind of a perv.

There were three headlines on the page, but Vic quickly saw which one Trev was so excited about: “Total Immersion Adult Entertainment.”

Trev had been into augmented reality for years. He started with a game where you resisted an alien invasion by taking over virtual bases located at local points of interest, and got into trouble for doing a victory dance after taking over a base located in front of a church where a funeral procession was emerging.

“Yes! In your face! I’m gonna bury your—uh-oh.”

Then he played the game where you had to capture and fight with little monsters, and got into trouble for hanging around a downtown park in the middle of the night to battle monsters without anyone else around.

“No, officer, I’m just playing this AR game!”

“Yeah, whatever; where are the drugs?”

When smart glasses got sophisticated, he got a questionable AI app that made it look like everyone was naked. And voluptuous, of course. He wasn’t fazed by almost walking into traffic every day, but when he started laughing at a large biker dude whose arms were covered with prison tattoos right up to his gang vest,...