More intriguing is an outfit called VCE, which stands for Virtual Computing Environment Company, was founded bye EMC and Cisco, along with VMWare and Intel.

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The company is also (without DFKI) developing a virtual reality environment that uses a pair of active-shutter glasses and a head-tracking camera to let you wander around cave-like structures from the comfort of the lab.

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