Chapter 1. Part 2: Morning Shower

Once he had gotten close enough to the entrance of the toilet, the virtual assistant, who had not yet shown himself in holographic form, was in charge of opening the door without having received an order to do so. The artificial intelligence that controlled the actions of this digital agent and those of the entire SmartHome system in your home, not only had enough processing capacity to intuit this type of daily life, but also had an arsenal of micro-cameras and sensors located underneath the screened surface, arranged in such a way that they were imperceptible to the eye, but could capture every corner of the apartment, allowing the system to accurately detect the movements of its owner and take action accordingly.

He went through the doorframe and being inside, it closed again in the same way it had previously opened. At the same time, the futon that was located on the central part of the room moved through a slit that emerged between the walls and the floor, to then give rise to a series of furniture that would modify the usefulness of the space: from At that time, the room went from being an alcove to a mixed room between the living room and the dining room. The functionality of that main room was continually adapted to the schedule of activities that Erik used to follow after getting out of bed, while the kitchen and bathroom remained unchanged; the latter exhibited the most striking and unique style of the entire cabin.

The walls that surrounded the bathroom, made it look like a large glass box submerged in the bottom of an underwater landscape being observed from inside, they reflected the digital image of a large body of water populated by numerous fish of different species, sizes and colors, including a large hammerhead shark that paced gracefully from side to side, as if it were a huge aquarium. The floor simulated the sand of the seabed and the ceiling seemed to allow the passage of sunlight after crossing the surface of the sea, illuminating the interior of the dressing table.

Erik stripped off his underwear and dumped it into a bowl off to the side, like a ball in a basketball hoop, then stopped in front of the toilet to urinate, which he did in parallel. to a peculiar self-talk.

"Hey soldier, you did have action last night," he said in a low tone and with a funny expression on his face, because his words were loaded with parodic military slang, "your mission now is to clean yourself up." We have already left the battlefield, it is not necessary to stand firm. And he concluded between soft laughs, pronouncing the command voice: "At will ... tion!"

Soon she went to the shower stall to take a bath. Detecting it in there, the system activated numerous horizontally oriented jets of warm water, which arose from holes in the glass that delimited this small washing cubicle; these impacted his body at the time it was completely covered with the hygienic bubbling product of the combination between the warm water and the soap poured from above like raindrops. His thoughts continued to review what had been done during the previous hours in the company of his girlfriend. "Wow! It was so much better than I ever imagined. This neural helmet does produce an experience indistinguishable from reality, I should have bought it much earlier and so we would not have wasted all these months doing holographic striptease mutually and self-satisfaction, that is nothing like what we live being connected to the digital simulation this night; With this equipment the same sensations are perceived as if we were having real sex. Well ... I imagine doing it in the real world will feel the same as in virtual reality, ”he mused endlessly.

Having showered, the tiny glass box that had previously sprayed water over his sturdy body now blew multiple streams of pressurized air at him through the same tiny holes the liquid had recently exited, quickly drying up the moisture. of her clear cinnamon skin.

He then opened the sliding door, stepped out of the shower area, and put on a boxer-type brief that was waiting for him on a newly appeared hanger outside. He walked a bit and stood in front of a mirror that had been projected minutes before on one of the walls, reflecting there, he arranged a little with his fingers the black and short hair of his. Then he took an oral cleaning device that was available to him, placed it in his mouth and it lit up, producing a blue light that was intended to eliminate bacteria and germs that may be present on his teeth, tongue and gums.

Later he placed his head a few inches in front of a kind of mask that protruded from the wall as a relief, as if it were embedded in the glass: he closed his eyes and a laser ran up and down his face, followed by a brief A puff of water vapor sprayed her face, and immediately a stream of cool air dried her complexion again. That was enough for him to turn away from him and open his eyelids, now wearing his beautiful shaved facial and his complexion free of impurities.

After completing her morning toilet, she moved to the adjoining wall and placed her hand in front of it, which caused the displacement of a segment of the glass and the emergence of a rotating tray, which housed inside a series of technological accessories belonging to her system. augmented reality. Immediately, and in the same way that he did every morning, a pair of smart contact lenses was placed on the corneas, which were nothing more than tiny crystalline screens, which adhered to his brown irises and allowed projection images directly in front of your pupils, integrating them with the visual field in front of you.

In the same way, she introduced a pair of ear cylinders into her ears, which would logically fulfill the function of speakers and at the same time give way to the sounds of the surrounding environment. On his tongue he placed a piercing-type microphone, which obviously would capture the sound waves from his voice, to send them to the central processing unit contained in the ring that he would then put on his right ring finger, after which, he placed on his left wrist a bracelet made up of a series of rigid data storage plates that constituted the permanent memory of the set. Finally and to complete the hardware of her personal information and communication system, she took the neural interface headband and attached it to her head, this would allow mental communication with the rest of the elements.

With these accessories located in their respective positions, the hyper-reality system was complete, so the software was activated and a series of small icons and graphic indicators of translucent coloration began to appear within its visual field, which seemed to float above the background. constituted by the real image of its surroundings.