Still, no matter how charming the dialogue, the shakiness of the translation can break immersion from time to time.

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The attempt to create immersion by severely limiting fast travel makes time spent getting around the world a chore rather than fun.

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Uncomfortably, Immersion has been forced to spend a lot of time in the no man's land between these two camps.

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In an "Immersion Lab" a few floors above the Business Sphere, employees test out working across time zones on wall-size video screens, and projecting business and social network information on man-size "holopanes" of glass.

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Then, using "augmented reality" technology from Total Immersion Software, the device translated the Mandarin characters on the sign into English, and in real time, super-imposed the characters on the device screen with English translations.

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