So now human communications networks are often based on "virtual pheromone trails".
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But with the exception of games, which Virtual PC doesn't support because it isn't designed to handle the complex graphics and sounds that PC games require, many Windows-based applications can run on Virtual PC without any trouble.
On its differentiation strategy, Rakuten positioned itself as a virtual shopping mall, based on a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) model.
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The performance of a virtual machine, for example, may vary widely, based on the computing taking place on the other virtual machines that are running on the same physical machine.
Using videogame software code, he has built a virtual reality arm based on an arm wired with FES. Donoghue translates brain signals, and Kirsch uses them to drive the arm on a computer screen.
The Wii U Virtual Console's official launch may still be a few months off, but based on the first game in the Famicom 30th Anniversary Virtual Console trial campaign, it's shaping up to be a strong evolution of its predecessor.
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Here's what I propose: We create a virtual office using data based on us ...
The game will even change your swing type based on how close you stand to the virtual ball.
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Basically, now you can entitle your virtual environment in total, based on its capacity and fill it up as much as you want.
So far these initiatives have all been virtual in the sense that they were based on an offensive deterrent factor.
Of particular concern, however, is the virtual elimination of work on space-based missile defenses in the present MDA budget and out-year plan.
Both the VMWare Server and Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007 are ideal for installing virtual machines on an Intel- or AMD-based PC.
Beaming combines both robotics and virtual reality and tries to improve on flatscreen display-based video conferencing techniques.
"Based on our members' feedback, I'd have to say that virtual memorial sites are gaining popularity with the public as a very practical alternative to being present at the grave site, " he added.
It was also used in 2003 in Encounter, an urban-based, pervasive game that combined both virtual play in conjunction with physical, on-the-street action.
GreenBiz produced an event called VERGE, a global virtual event based in Shanghai, London and San Francisco, focusing on the convergence of energy, information, building, and vehicle technologies.
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It's not clear if Icelandic game studio CCP is extending its crazy MMO, EVE Online, into the world of virtual reality, but the company is working on some form of EVE-based VR application using the Oculus Rift.
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By renting out cloud-based computers by the hour, companies could run any OS, software or programming language on a powerful virtual machine.
Businesses must begin strategizing on how they are going to train IT to manage and maintain the diverse virtual and cloud-based environments they have adopted.
The goal of such game-targeted malware, says McAfee researcher Igor Muttik, is to gain possession of virtual in-game property and currency and resell it on auction sites like Hong Kong-based IGE.com.
Like the Rosetta Stone's ubiquitously marketed computer-based product, TOTALe Online works by means of virtual immersion: Regardless of skill level, you listen in on dialogues, repeat sentences and answer questions entirely in the language you're studying.
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