Vue d'Esprit: This virtual landscape generator uses ray-tracing to render photo-realistic pictures of any landscape you can imagine.

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Companies like FluidOps make replicating all levels of a virtual landscape--the data, database, application, and operating system--a one-click operation.

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Vue d'Esprit: This virtual landscape generator uses elaborate ray-tracing features to render photorealistic pictures of any landscape you can imagine.

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Facebook continues to bring order to the wild and woolly landscape of virtual currencies and payment systems on its social network.

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The U.S. military is evaluating Croquet for training radio technicians to build field communications systems in virtual terrain replicating the landscape in Iraq.

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Using these, a pilot can view full-color terrain maps and virtual images of the landscape around them on displays that adjust as they move their heads.

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And no matter what the Cell does to the broader computer-industry landscape, the virtual game-vistas it will conjure up are certain to look fantastic.

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Unlike neatly defined science problems, which amaze more by their petabyte scale than their inherent complexity, virtual organisations are noteworthy because of their constantly shifting landscape of data and computer resources, and the authentication on which they rely.

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