Building a Starbucks franchise in a FarmVille virtual city for firms like Zynga and Facebook is just an inkling.
They are programmed into the virtual model as well, creating a detailed virtual city which anyone can navigate with the click of a computer mouse.
There is also a wealth of informational "mash-ups" of maps with other data, such as Virtual Tourism, Google City Tours and safe2pee.org, so you can look at destinations ahead of time, figure out a city tour based on the sites you want to see, even locate the public restrooms.
Aleksandr Belykh, the head of the abuse department of FirstVDS, said the user of the virtual server identified in the City Newsstand investigation is Russian, and his firm hadn't received any complaints about it.
Transferring all that to virtual assistant Phyllis Kaelin of Culver City, Calif.
Near Global is launching in 2009 with the promise to offer the most accurate 3D version of a city ever produced as a virtual world.
Merchant and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot announced the winning prototypes from the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, a competition that engaged hundreds of urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and virtual prototypes that imagine the future of the City's approximately 11, 000 public pay telephones.
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That puts Gadhafi in "a bizarre situation, " Kaufman says: He is "under virtual house arrest and not free to gallivant around the city" that he wants to leave for his safety.
Unlike all other versions of SimCity, the latest requires gamers to remain online while they play, as each city they construct sits on a chunk of virtual territory shared with other players.
Perhaps City Opera will become the country's first virtual opera company.
The virtual reality model of Los Angeles begins with aerial photos of the city.
After visitors "fly" to the city of their choice and arrive at the local Deloitte virtual office, they can go to various parts of the office such as meeting rooms and talk to employees.
Is City in a similar situation with Sir Alex sticking metaphorical pins in virtual voodoo dolls?
Last season's Premier League was won with the virtual last kick of the season, when Sergio Aguero scored to give Manchester City the title on goal difference.
And the Cardiff City Stadium's biggest crowd of 26, 049 was stunned into virtual silence when Emnes struck to extend Swansea's unbeaten run to seven Championship games.
His researchers are working on virtual stores for a retail firm and a three-dimensional computer version of the city of Coventry for use by architects and planners in local government.
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The city of Boston says it is planning to set up support groups for families in Boston and a virtual support group for families around the nation.
The job involves laying down the infrastructure for your city to flourish - power, water, roads and rail - and then watching as businesses and virtual people, called Sims, flock in.
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