In a virtual world, he hypothesized, people would be able to communicate in similar ways.
Even in a virtual world, communication is heavily dependent on two-way body language cues.
"Every explosion that happens in a virtual world is a good thing, " says Forterra's Chris Badger.
If you rate doing something in a virtual world to be a meaningful achievement, so be it.
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One of the first, a planet called Rocktropia, brings recording companies, artists and gamers together in a virtual world.
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"If you're just sitting in a virtual world and watching a Web presentation, you're wasting your money, " Rozwell says.
Projects are underway to use 3D graphics techniques to enable multiple users to share the same space in a virtual world.
Being able to see two tablets side-by-side is simply not something you can replicate so easily in a virtual world, even through youtube videos.
The company's next goal is to develop a video game that would require players to use a native language to survive in a virtual world.
The networks are very diverse, but the resilient ones are learning organizations that quickly adapt to changing conditions, operating in a virtual world of social media and hidden financial transactions where they present few tangible targets to defenders.
Another change since 1987, when the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was the home of most U.S. stock trading, is that now trading doesn't occur only in specified locations but on multiple exchanges in a virtual world.
Pearman is calling for anyone who plays online shooters to take part in a cease fire on Friday, December 21st by not killing anyone in a virtual world as a sign of respect for the victims of the shooting.
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Peter Moore, president of EA Sports, part of Electronic Arts, a games company, says that some gamers like to recreate what they see during live NASCAR races in video games, using online information about speed, drag, tyre pressure and so forth to recreate, in a virtual world, the real-life action.
Win a game in the virtual world, for instance, and the toy gains a new functionality in the real world.
Minecraft supports a multiplayer mode allowing players to set up and manage a server that can host dozens or even hundreds of simultaneous players in a single, persistent virtual world (for an example of a popular Minecraft server, see Meepcraft).
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One teenager is in a virtual multiplayer online game world with a few schoolmates, and another is streaming a favorite show from an entertainment site.
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Following a federal investigation, Second Life's parent company, Linden Lab, banned all gambling in the virtual world--a major source of its business.
The laptop uses the GPS data to maintain a 3D model which keeps the vehicle correctly positioned in the virtual world, and much "like a novel, " the story unfolds as different turns (ahem) take place based on the decisions players make.
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Stiletto Moody shoes are seen as a status symbol in the virtual world of Second Life.
Second Life, as its name implies, is a virtual world in which members create an avatar and then use that character to live out a separate existence.
Sony has targeted the same family audience with its game world, which features mini-games like go kart racing and the ability to socialize with gamers of all ages in a cartoon-style 3D virtual world.
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Kim certainly has people supporting her in the virtual world: A video she posted a few weeks ago after she'd lost 4 pounds had more than a dozen motivational comments from others on iReport.com.
In late June 1942, Eisenhower arrived in London as a virtual unknown to the world.
The idea that someone can have a virtual me out in the world quickly, and without my permission, keeps me up nights thinking about a whole new kind of identity theft.
Game players tend to be early adapters of any new technology, from specialized high-speed graphics chip sets to surround-sound computer speakers, that promises a more complete immersion in the virtual world.
In Home, players control a customized avatar in a lush, high-definition, 3-D virtual world where they can find new friends or play games together in the world.
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And in a world of 24-hour virtual trading, it makes little difference whether a commodities deal is brokered in Saadiyat or Chicago.
Cash is becoming scarcer in a world of debit cards and virtual goods, and peeling off a fresh ten-dollar bill may not be the best way to teach kids the age-old value of a dollar anymore.
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And, of course, there is the romance of the rails, a romance that has somehow been able to survive all of Amtrak's struggles -- even in an era that proclaims a digital, virtual world can transport a person anywhere without that person ever leaving home.
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