Instead of heading to Honest Al's Maybach Acres, prospective buyers ago to a "commissioning studio, " where, with the help ofvirtualrealitytechnology and a Maybach "relationship manager, " they commission a custom vehicle to be built in Germany.
Rosedale started programming as a child with a vivid imagination and a powerful grasp of how technology could turn that imagination into virtualreality.
Michitaka Hirose, a professor specializing in virtual-reality technology at Tokyo University, traces Japan's thriving artificial entertainment industry to the art of bonsai, in which medieval nobility honed the reshaping of nature into an art form.