
Reality Hacker
You won't know who to trust.
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Show overview
Reality Hacker launched in 2024 and has put out 82 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 70 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 37 min and 1h 9m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
There hasn’t been a new episode in the last ninety days; the most recent episode landed 9 months ago. Published by HATCHideas.
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A news show that is focused on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes, the software, and people involved with Hacking Reality.
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S2 Ep 33Political AI Clone, AI Sucks at Sudoku, Snail Regrows Eyes, and more.
EShow Notes:A Political AI Clonehttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/a-politician-made-an-ai-clone-of-himself-the-outrage-was-real/AI Sucks at Sudokuhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/ai-sucks-at-sudoku-much-more-troubling-is-that-it-cant-explain-why/A snail regrows its eyeshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/this-snail-can-regrow-its-eyes-and-it-may-hold-key-to-curing-blindness-in-humans/Are we experience Her nowhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/are-we-living-in-the-movie-her-yet/Predicing Decisions through AIhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/beast-gb-model-combines-machine-learning-and-behavioral-science-to-predict-peoples-decisions/

S2 Ep 32Robots Cleaning, Simulated Humans, Cyborg Bees, and much more.
EShow Notes:Robots will clean house alright.https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/wild-video-shows-humanoid-robot-loading-a-washing-machine-pretty-well/Simulated Human Subjects, sounds creepy.https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/ai-models-simulate-human-subjects-to-aid-social-science-research-but-limits-remain/Neovision's Edge AI Visionhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/seeing-without-the-cloud-neovisions-ambitious-edge-ai-vision/Cyborg Beeshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/new-cyborg-bees-operate-like-rc-cars-thanks-to-tiny-brain-controllers/Synthetic Cellshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/scientists-build-synthetic-cells-that-tell-time/

S2 Ep 31Cartwheeling Robots, Utility Bots, Cheating at Sudoku, and more news.
EShow Notes:A Cartwheeling Humanoid Robothttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/you-can-buy-this-cartwheeling-humanoid-robot-for-less-than-two-apple-vision-pros/Robots pick up Garbage, Mow, Snowplow, and morehttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/detroits-using-robots-to-pick-up-garbage-mow-grass-clear-snow-and-much-more/A robot changes its own battery.https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/four-wheel-tech/f/d/watch-this-chinese-humanoid-robot-change-its-own-battery-and-try-not-to-get-creeped-out/Robo Bunnieshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/robo-bunnies-are-the-latest-weapon-against-floridas-invasive-pythons/Does AI Cheat at Sudoku: Trustworthinesshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/researchers-test-the-trustworthiness-of-ai-by-teaching-it-to-play-sudoku/

S2 Ep 30AI Warps Live Video, HoloPlastic, Cyborg Bees, and more news!
EShow Notes:AI Warps Live Videohttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/this-ai-warps-live-video-in-real-time/Holographic Message in Plastichttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/holographic-message-encoded-in-simple-plastic-2/Cyborg Beeshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/new-cyborg-bees-operate-like-rc-cars-thanks-to-tiny-brain-controllers/AIPasta reforges disinformationhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/aipasta-uses-ai-to-paraphrase-and-repeat-disinformation/What is Predictive Servicehttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/hatchideas/f/d/why-predictive-service-is-the-next-big-thing-for-your-customer-service/Catch the Pods:Non Sequitur Newshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ohmtown-daily-news-show/id1609446592RealityHackerhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reality-hacker/id1730569174WANTED!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wanted/id1736804331The Continuity Reporthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-continuity-report/id1730555984WarCraftershttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/warcrafters/id1747332089TechnologyTodayhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technologytoday/id1736803981FourWheelTechhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fourwheeltech/id1747338365

S2 Ep 29An AI Refugee, Alien Lighthouses, Calmm your Brain, and more.
EShow Notes:An AI Refugee Avatarhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/late-nite-geeks/f/d/a-united-nations-research-institute-created-an-ai-refugee-avatar/Lighthouses for Alienshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/earths-airports-are-basically-lighthouses-for-aliens/Training for Robotic Handshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/new-simulation-system-generates-thousands-of-training-examples-for-robotic-hands-and-arms/Quantum Simulatorhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/quantum-simulator-could-help-uncover-materials-for-high-performance-electronics-2/Virtual Forest to Calm your Brainhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/this-virtual-forest-calms-your-brain-no-hiking-required/

S2 Ep 28AI Construct Youtuber, OR Robots, AI Fusion, and more news for 7/12/2025
EShow Notes:AI Construct Youtuberhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/a-fast-rising-gaming-youtuber-is-an-ai-construct-not-a-human/Operating Room Robotshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/humanoid-robots-in-the-operating-room-could-address-surgery-delays-and-staff-shortages/Sense of Taste Robothttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/greenagram/f/d/sweet-or-sour-ai-powered-device-achieves-human-like-sense-of-taste-2/AI Fusion https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/engineers-use-ai-to-wrangle-fusion-power-for-the-grid-2/The F1 Fictional Racing Teamhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/why-ea-sharkninja-msc-cruises-and-expensify-backed-f1-the-movies-fictional-racing-team/

S2 Ep 273D Streaming, Holograms, AI Rock Band, and more for 6/5/2025
EShow Notes:3D Streaminghttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/3d-streaming-gets-leaner-by-seeing-only-what-matters/Angle Dependent Hologramshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/angle-dependent-holograms-made-possible-by-metasurfaces-2/Real and VR Sensorshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/bringing-together-real-world-sensors-and-vr-to-improve-building-maintenance-2/AI Generated Rock Bandhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/an-indie-rock-band-that-appears-to-be-entirely-ai-generated-is-making-alarming-amounts-of-money-on-spotify/Fake Lottery Winnershttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/roundersgear/f/d/purportedly-fake-lottery-winners-planted-across-uk-media/

S2 Ep 26AI Changes Speech, Brains over Bots, Seeing through Blood, AI Agents Get Better, The Methaphone
EShow Notes:AI and Human Speechhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/ai-is-changing-the-way-humans-speak-to-each-other/Brains over Bots for nowhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/brains-over-bots-why-toddlers-still-beat-ai-at-learning-language/See through Bloodhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/this-experimental-tech-allows-surgeons-to-see-through-blood/AI Agents are getting better... at everything.https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/ai-agents-are-getting-better-at-writing-code-and-hacking-it-as-well/The Methaphonehttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/the-methaphone-is-a-phone-thats-not-a-phone-to-help-you-stop-using-your-phone/

S2 Ep 25Face Tech Tattoo, Biomedical Gaming, Bacteria Capture CO2, 3D Avatars, Ruling AI Chatbots
EShow Notes:Wearable Tech Face Tattoohttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/the-next-wearable-tech-could-be-a-face-tattoo-that-measures-mental-stress/Gamers advance biomedical researchhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/millions-of-gamers-advance-biomedical-research/Bacteria captures CO2https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/photosynthetic-living-material-uses-bacteria-to-capture-co₂-in-two-different-ways/Avatars from a single Photohttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/hyper-realistic-ai-technology-creates-avatars-from-a-single-photo/17 AI Chatbots to Rule them Allhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/who-needs-a-human-government-when-you-have-17-ai-chatbots-welcome-to-sensay-island/

S2 Ep 245 Interesting Articles from RealityHacker for 5/14/2025
EShow Notes:Smart Dental Implantshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/smart-dental-implants-could-feel-more-like-the-real-thing/Haptic Feedback Trailer for F1https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/apple-made-a-haptic-trailer-for-the-f1-movie-that-only-works-on-iphones/Shape Changing for Visually Impairedhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/shape-changing-device-helps-visually-impaired-people-perform-location-task-as-well-as-sighted-people-2/Wearable Multisensory Hapticshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/revolutionizing-touch-researchers-explore-the-future-of-wearable-multi-sensory-haptic-technology-2/AI Agents Gameplay the Real Worldhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/a-deep-learning-alternative-can-help-ai-agents-gameplay-the-real-world/

S2 Ep 235 RealityHacker Articles for 6/7/2025
EArticles from the RealityHacker episode on 6/7/2025:RealityHackerChange your Brainwaveshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/scientists-taught-people-to-change-their-own-brainwaves-to-feel-less-pain/Amazon Humanoid Deliveryhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/amazon-is-reportedly-training-humanoid-robots-to-deliver-packages/In Progress, Humanizing Robotshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/new-ai-startup-giving-robots-virtual-heart-rate-body-temperature-sweating-response-so-they-can-better-emulate-human-emotions-like-fear-and-anxiety/Robot thinks aheadhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/algorithm-lets-a-robot-think-ahead-and-consider-thousands-of-potential-motion-plans-simultaneously/Reality Versus Imaginationhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/saturday-citations-reality-vs-imagination-rhinos-vs-poachers-mathematics-vs-the-big-bang/Visit www.youtube.com/ohmtown and www.twitch.tv/ohmtown for our live shows every day.

S2 Ep 22Can AI Become Conscious, Kick Boxing Robots, and Synthetic Cats
EShow Notes for RH:Kick Boxing Robotshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/humanoid-robots-fight-in-chinese-kick-boxing-competition/Do Synthetic Cats cough up Cotton Balls?https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/these-robot-cats-have-glowing-eyes-and-artificial-heartbeats-and-could-help-reduce-stress-in-children/Could AI Become Conscious?https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/the-people-who-think-ai-might-become-conscious/42 MPH Ping Pong Ballhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/blink-predict-smash-mits-42-mph-ping-pong-bot-is-freakishly-fast/Move'n on off of a 3D Printerhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/soft-robots-can-walk-themselves-out-of-a-3d-printer/

S2 Ep 21Talk to your Pets Soon
EArticles Discussed:Talk to your Petshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/your-pets-could-one-day-be-able-to-talk-to-you-with-ai/Hatsune Mikuhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/anyway-heres-hatsune-miku-dancing-to-a-fen-vocaloid-cover-in-vrchat/Spiders Spin Glowing Red Silkhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/biologists-engineer-spiders-to-spin-glowing-red-silk/Infrared Night Vision Contactshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/these-infrared-night-vision-contacts-let-you-see-through-your-eyelids/The End of Reality as we Know Ithttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/googles-new-video-generating-ai-may-be-the-end-of-reality-as-we-know-it/

S2 Ep 20Meta wants ALL of your (your replacement has arrived).
EArticles Discussed:Another Simulation Theoryhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/gravity-could-be-proof-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation-new-theory-suggests/When an Apple falls in your Headhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/coming-soon-to-apple-devices-brain-control-accessibility-features/The Age of Paranoia.https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/deepfakes-scams-and-the-age-of-paranoia/The First Attack.https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/humanoid-robot-turned-on-handlers-at-factory-in-dystopian-attack/Meta wants You... all of you.https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/meta-wants-your-smile-squats-and-small-talk-and-its-paying-50-an-hour-to-scan-them/

S2 Ep 19Visual Intelligence and Neurotech
EShow Notes for 5/10/2025 Episode, s2e19:Cyborg Cicadashttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/scientists-direct-cyborg-cicadas-to-play-a-horrendous-droning-rendition-of-pachelbels-canon/Robot with Feelshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/amazon-develops-a-robot-that-feels-touch-just-like-its-human-workers/Visual Intelligencehttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/wanted/f/d/5-things-you-can-do-with-visual-intelligence-on-your-iphone/Neurotech Deviceshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/lawnerd/f/d/wearable-neurotech-devices-are-becoming-more-prevalent-is-the-law-behind-the-curve/AI Powered Headphoneshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/ai-powered-headphones-offer-group-translation-with-voice-cloning-and-3d-spatial-audio/

S2 Ep 18AI Competition, AI Replacements, Gene Therapy, and more.
EShow Notes:Competing with non-human entitieshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/when-you-apply-for-a-job-now-youre-competing-with-non-human-entities/AI Agent Companyhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/professors-staffed-a-fake-company-entirely-with-ai-agents-and-youll-never-guess-what-happened/Gene Therapy Startuphttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/hatchideas/f/d/this-gene-therapy-startup-wants-to-change-the-way-we-age/Growing Human Teethhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/scientists-successfully-grow-human-tooth-in-lab-with-aim-of-implanting-in-humans/Are we in a simulation?https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/physicist-says-hes-identified-a-clue-that-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation/

S2 Ep 17Robots RUN!, Word Prediction, Quantum Telepathy, and more RealityHacker
EShow Notes:They are coming for us, RUN!https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/a-bunch-of-robots-ran-a-half-marathon-alongside-humans-and-it-was-incredibly-goofy/Quantum Telepathyhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/quantum-telepathy-goes-real-how-lasers-and-ions-outsmarted-logic/Humanoid Workers and Surveillance Buggieshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/humanoid-workers-and-surveillance-buggies-embodied-ai-is-reshaping-daily-life-in-china/Gestures Predict Wordshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/listeners-use-gestures-to-predict-upcoming-words-virtual-avatar-study-finds/VR Dentistshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/realityhacker/f/d/virtual-reality-coming-to-a-dentists-office-near-you/

S2 Ep 16Touchy Holograms, AI Creativity, Realistic Avatars, and more.
EShow Notes for RealityHacker on 4/19/2025:Holograms you can Touchhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/scientists-invent-holograms-you-can-touch/Hot Potato because of AI Assistantshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/seattle-startup-potato-lands-4-5m-to-automate-science-experiments-using-ai-assistants-and-robots/Molecular Robots in Cellshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/dna-circuits-come-alive-scientists-build-molecular-robots-inside-living-cells/Characterizing Creativityhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/almost-like-us-characterizing-creativity-in-artificial-intelligence/Realistic Avatars Foster Trustworthinesshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/in-science-communication-realistic-avatars-may-foster-more-trustworthiness-than-cartoon-like-ones/

S2 Ep 15Four Years After Death, Murder Prediction, Engineered Bacteria
EShow Notes:Four Years After Deathhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/alvin-lucier-is-still-making-music-four-years-after-his-death-thanks-to-an-artificial-brain/Personal Mixed Realityhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/a-new-way-to-bring-personal-items-to-mixed-reality/Jumping Robothttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/insect-sized-jumping-robot-can-traverse-challenging-terrains-and-carry-heavy-payloads/Murder Prediction Minority Reporthttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/the-uk-is-testing-a-murder-prediction-tool-to-identify-potential-killers/Engineered Bacteriahttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/engineered-bacteria-emit-signals-that-can-be-spotted-from-a-distance/

S2 Ep 14Let me think, Galactic Spin, The Turing Test, and more.
EWelcome to RealityHacker, s2e14 on 4/5/2025:Here are the articles we discussed:Quantum Signals inside Lifehttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/scientists-just-discovered-quantum-signals-inside-life-itself/Galactic Spin Mysteryhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/baffling-scientists-galactic-spin-mystery-challenges-big-bang-assumptions/Uhhhmmmm... let me think.https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/that-uhh-let-me-think-face-you-make-androids-need-it-too/Eco Friendly Dininghttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/extended-reality-adds-meat-flavors-to-plant-based-meals-for-eco-friendly-dining/Achievement Unlocked: Turing Testhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/an-ai-model-has-officially-passed-the-turing-test/