The rules don't apply to individuals who simply use virtual currencies to purchase real or virtual goods.
"Next-generation games blur the lines between real and virtual worlds more than ever before, " he said.
They tested 600 subjects when surrounded by red, blue or neutral colors in both real and virtual environments.
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He added that this would create a "real life virtual experience", in contrast to virtual reality with artificial images.
With more disclosure comes more paper work, both real and virtual, and more information for investors and analysts to sift through.
Facebook is unprecedented not only in its scale but also in its ability to blur boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.
Here the fault is the education, not the internet, which needs to be given a much bigger role in classrooms (real and virtual).
In a shrinking world where air travel and the Web have made real and virtual nomads of us, major environmental and health problems have also become globe-trotters.
Recent smaller projects that are still finding their legs include Facebook Gifts, which lets you buy real and virtual goods for friends, and charging to send strangers messages.
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As a researcher for the virtual world contractor Electric Sheep, he's working with a major toy company to build a product that would exist in both real and virtual environments.
In the last few years our private lives have been inundated with junk mail and our mailboxes real and virtual are filled to the tipping point with brand magazines and offers.
The key for marketers is to learn how this collision of real and virtual time and space can be of the greatest benefit to their brands and the consumers who buy them.
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Recent smaller projects that are still finding their legs include Facebook Gifts, which lets you buy real and virtual goods for friends, and charging a small fee to send messages to strangers.
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As well as making it possible to scribble virtually anywhere, linking the real and virtual worlds through mobile devices could also change users' perception of their surroundings, says Jason Devitt of Vindigo, a company based in New York that provides location-based services on both handheld computers and mobile phones.
All that will then be needed to make the virtual office indistinguishable from a real one are virtual daggers to allow the avatars to stab one another in the back.
Now, in a sign that virtual issues increasingly are bleeding into the real world, some "residents" of Second Life are taking virtual property rights to real-world court, citing California consumer protection laws to make their case.
When I first heard of people exchanging real money for virtual goods, I thought the world had gone mad.
Real power lies in leveraging the virtual world to drive real-world events that bring people together in the flesh.
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The public is getting the full play-by-play in virtual real time, leaving Carnival playing catchup from an increasingly defensive posture.
For example, AirStrip offers virtual real time remote patient heart monitoring technology to a broad array of acute patient clinical settings.
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Hollywood studios or video game prodigies can build photorealistic real-time virtual worlds.
In a separate announcement, the company also introduced a new mobile app that enables users to use their smartphones to convert their PC into a real-life Virtual Reality environment.
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It's a matter of time before the real and the virtual fold into each other on the wireless Web, says Wonhee Sull, vice president of platform development at SK Telecom.
By combining real-time virtual feeds with other technological devices, fans will effectively be able to sit in a local stadium and take in the game being played on the field, though the game is actually being played at a different venue entirely.
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The game will open a virtual store later this week, says Gerson, where players can use real money to buy the virtual coin currency.
"We are very interested in music where you have real instruments on stage and virtual sound sources, which can be coming directly from the computer or transformed from the real-time recording of instruments onstage, " he says.
Listen to Scott Redler navigate the markets in real time on the Virtual Trading Floor.
In the real - rather than virtual - world, Washington is known to favour a Palestinian state only as part of a negotiated agreement with Israel, with which it has strong ties.
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