text: Somehow he was able to pull himself up onto the ledge where he saw he was in a very bad, impossible situation and what did he do?
  
  INTRODUCTION: Surprisingly, much of the general public do not know one of the human Herpesviruses, varicellazoster virus (VZV), causes chickenpox, and results in a life-long infection. VZV can re-activate after decades of being dormant in sensory nerve ganglia (usually in those over 60 years of age) to cause shingles infection.
  
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  Chapter 12 looks at the concept of digital immortality, and the significant impact that virtual humans could have on it. From the moment someone creates even a simple chatbot based on a real person then you have a form of digital immortality - as long as someone keeps paying the hosting bills! The digital traces that we all create everyday are grist to the mill for the creation of such virtual personas (as seen in Zoe from Caprica - see VH and SF), but what happens if we make these personas active, with their own goals, interests and resources so that they can continue their progenitor's "life" indefinitely. And what is the impact on everyone who has been left behind - and how does it effect the concept of grief?
  We'll post additional analysis here, links to "digital immortality" systems, and blog about interesting papers and the emerging start-ups that aim to support such digital immortality.
  Walter, T. (2017). How the dead survive: ancestors, immortality, memory in M.H. Jacobsen (Ed.), Postmortal Society. Towards as Sociology of Immortality. London: Routledge.
  
  The VR fitness app Supernatural is getting an upgrade with a new mode, an improved gameplay along with additional services that come as a subscription. We look at why the new family plan can be cost-effective in households with more than a single person along with some of the new features that you can expect in the VR fitness app.
  Supernatural has always put a premium on individually adapted training plans as well as real-time coaching by virtual fitness trainers. The developer Studio Within is coming closer to this ideal and the feel of a real fitness studio.
  Supernatural’s pricing model is also similar to that of a real-world fitness studio. This is a VR fitness app with a monthly subscription plan similar to what you would find in real fitness centers. Users can take either a monthly or an annual cancelable membership instead of a one-time pricing that you would find in other VR apps.
  The VR fitness app has a new “family tariff” which allows up to four Supernatural users from the same household to share a single subscription on the same headset.
  Every user will be able to create their own profile where they can save their training progress and individual settings. It will, however, not be possible to make a joint visit to the same virtual gym simultaneously as all the four members in the subscription plan must the use the same Oculus Quest headset to share the family subscription plan.
  Access to the membership plan is only possible on a device where Supernatural is installed and the subscription set up. You can activate the additional profiles immediately, notwithstanding your membership plan, whether it is a monthly or annual membership plan.
  Supernatural was launched exclusively on Oculus Quest in April this year and while many of the early testers had praised its powerful visual representation and its demanding workouts, they criticized the subscription price rate which many deemed as too high. The VR fitness app BoxVR has recently rebranded with a major free update and offers users an almost similar experience but at a much lower price.