Ternovskiy sucked down a glass of fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice and pattered on about happiness and the intersection between virtual reality and real reality.
Designed to work with SMART Devices that are typically connected to the internet, SMART Glasses are interactive and merge virtual information with the real world.
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It's a matter of time before the real and the virtual fold into each other on the wireless Web, says Wonhee Sull, vice president of platform development at SK Telecom.
In the last few years our private lives have been inundated with junk mail and our mailboxes real and virtual are filled to the tipping point with brand magazines and offers.
The anonymity of virtual communities appeared to be fatal to the creation of trust and of real civic bonds.
Win a game in the virtual world, for instance, and the toy gains a new functionality in the real world.
To some extent, that is also why the Silicon Valley, for all its proclamations of virtual this and telecommuting that, has some of the most expensive real estate on the planet.
The key for marketers is to learn how this collision of real and virtual time and space can be of the greatest benefit to their brands and the consumers who buy them.
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The result: 6D gaze vectors on objects are calculated automatically and virtual content can be presented in real-time dependent on the gaze interaction of the user with the environment.
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Facebook is unprecedented not only in its scale but also in its ability to blur boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.
As well as making it possible to scribble virtually anywhere, linking the real and virtual worlds through mobile devices could also change users' perception of their surroundings, says Jason Devitt of Vindigo, a company based in New York that provides location-based services on both handheld computers and mobile phones.
Inside the computer, software that lab members developed visualizes the spiders and determines the physics of spider interactions, creating a simulation of how virtual spiders should behave in the real world, Clark explained.
But there is still something about being in a store, seeing and holding the products and loading a real shopping cart, not just a virtual one.
When it comes to the very real battle between gaming giants Activision and Electronic Arts over the virtual war between Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, enticing gamers to buy one, if not both, of these key fall releases is crucial.
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"Next-generation games blur the lines between real and virtual worlds more than ever before, " he said.
"We are very interested in music where you have real instruments on stage and virtual sound sources, which can be coming directly from the computer or transformed from the real-time recording of instruments onstage, " he says.
In a shrinking world where air travel and the Web have made real and virtual nomads of us, major environmental and health problems have also become globe-trotters.
Its 150 news, music and entertainment channels draw to the site customers who spend real money for real goods at NetRadio's virtual music and software stores.
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He describes a scenario in which a team from several agencies meets in the virtual space to monitor maps of agents' locations on the ground in Afghanistan in real time, communicating both with each other by teleconference and video feeds in the virtual room and simultaneously with the ground agents via mobile devices.
Here the fault is the education, not the internet, which needs to be given a much bigger role in classrooms (real and virtual).
How could a PhD in economics think that a Keynesian currency system that has failed so badly in the real world be the desired path for currencies like WoW Gold and EVE Online ISK in the virtual world?
Like Monopoly, MyTown lets players purchase, upgrade and collect rent on virtual properties that mirror the real-life locations.
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Many people participate in online virtual communities as a way to relax and escape the drudgery of the real world.
In my virtual interview, Chris Wallace sees through the smoke screen and goes after the real issues.
David Savill, 22, lives in Gloucester, England, in real life and created this spot within the virtual world of Second Life.
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But he firm hopes once the virtual London is complete real companies will get involved and offer services through "channels" on its website.
Movie rentals marks an extension of the credits system beyond virtual goods to real services, and (who knows) could potentially lead to physical goods.
Satellite images and geographical data can be fed into the software to generate virtual representations of real places, allowing soldiers to rehearse specific missions.
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Amazon.com is just one example of a company growing by leaps and bounds in the real world because of its presence in the virtual one.
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