With that backdrop, we go to our first virtual town hall of the evening.
The first virtual 3D surgical program to train doctors has been developed by the Golden Jubilee National Hospital.
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Pinterest, the first virtual pinboard, currently has over 10 million members.
One of most interesting and truly collaborative projects currently being researched is the attempt to create Europe's first virtual choir via the Internet.
Perhaps City Opera will become the country's first virtual opera company.
Nina is significant because it is the first virtual assistant customer service app to incorporate both speech recognition and voice biometrics into a single integrated solution.
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And this week 20th Century Fox and HMV teamed up to launch what they describe as the UK's first virtual store to sell BluRay and DVD movies.
This feedback created the first virtual keyboard that I enjoyed using, and it makes a huge difference in the user's experience, and likely in the user's acceptance, of the new platform.
Our first virtual town hall of the hour is in Kokomo, Indiana, population 45, 000, four Chrysler plants, Delphi electronics, manufacturing on a big scale, but in a sector, cars, that's shrinking.
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Indeed, First Virtual, an Internet commerce firm, has developed an advertisement that can act as a tiny shopfront (imagine a Nike ad that would let you order a pair of shoes from within the banner), merging advertising and direct commerce.
For the next two weeks, they're trialling what's being billed as the UK's first interactive virtual grocery store in the departure lounge at Gatwick Airport.
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In celebration of the two-year anniversary of the signing of the Executive Order that reestablished the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, the Initiative cordially invites students, youth, and community advocates across the country to attend its first ever Virtual Youth Town Hall on October 14, 2011 from 4pm to 5:30pm PDT.
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Back on April 1, Congress held its first hearing on virtual worlds, and no, it wasn't an April Fools prank.
During the game, that virtual first-down marker you see on your TV could now be on the field itself before the ball is snapped.
And, in the first completely-virtual interview from the White House, President Obama will answer questions that have been submitted by Americans from across the country via YouTube.
Solving the virtual data center segmentation problem is an important first step in creating the virtual security suite.
Despite any feelings of disappointment regarding the interface, the first week of the virtual office being online was almost festive.
It is widely believed that Apple (AAPL) is working on using Siri, first introduced as a virtual voice controlled assistant on iPhone 4S, as a voice remote control for Apple TV.
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"I think we're seeing right now the first wave, with virtual goods and currencies limited to a certain game or context, " says Matt Berardo, vice president of product management at social-games platform GameHouse Fusion.
The first version will be a virtual arena in which players can take each other on in one-to-one duels.
And sure enough, the club has shaken off a tough start to go 20-14, sitting in a virtual tie for first place.
It was India who were batting when play resumed early to make up for some of the lost overs after the first-day's virtual washout.
The virtual exhibition was first presented to the UK by the architect of the new museum, Bernard Tschumi, during a visit by Greek culture minister Evangelos Venizelos.
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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Household spending juddered to a virtual halt in the first quarter, growing by just 0.1%.
It might take a week, but in the virtual races, the first one to complete the total distance wins.
Alcatel-Lucent, which owns Bell Labs, isn't committing to a time to market for the application, but analysts say the first uses of gesture control and virtual conferencing on wireless networks and handsets will arrive late next year.
The trigger for the excitement was Siri, the artificial intelligence based virtual assistant introduced for the first time in an iPhone.
"This is the first step in the creation of a virtual time machine, which our children and grandchildren will use to study the history of Rome and many other great cities around the world, " he said.
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