There are others out there who feel that the virtual life is not worth living.
Frank Woods in both Black Ops games and Rich McDonald, who brought Commander David Mason to virtual life.
Converging factors of telework, globalization, new communications technologies, and recurrent cost-cutting have made virtual life the norm inside companies.
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Because the virtual life, of course, is no substitute for face-to-face.
Proposition 66's supporters say the law is too clumsy, leading to virtual life sentences for criminals whose third strike was nothing more than stealing a slice of pizza.
But before my neighbors and my wife call their respective lawyers, I should point out that the situation I'm describing is a slice of virtual life from the world's No. 1 PC game, The Sims, by virtuoso designer Will Wright.
And tidy up your virtual life.
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Parents of teens are used to being snubbed, of course, but it's getting harder for kids to ignore mom and dad when they have access to their children's entire virtual social life.
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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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He added that this would create a "real life virtual experience", in contrast to virtual reality with artificial images.
Talks are said to have begun with Linden Labs to make the entire simulation available on the internet through the company's virtual world Second Life.
In a separate announcement, the company also introduced a new mobile app that enables users to use their smartphones to convert their PC into a real-life Virtual Reality environment.
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Open to the public since January 2009 as a two-year project, it was created within the multi-user virtual world Second Life but possesses a charmingly post-apocalyptic visual sensibility all its own.
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Despite the fact that Arthur pays U.S. dollars to "own" virtual land in Second Life, and that his renters also pay him in real money, it's unclear whether he, or any of Second Life's "residents, " have lasting rights to these virtual tracts.
Now, in a sign that virtual issues increasingly are bleeding into the real world, some "residents" of Second Life are taking virtual property rights to real-world court, citing California consumer protection laws to make their case.
Stiletto Moody shoes are seen as a status symbol in the virtual world of Second Life.
Zed Drebin is an avatar in the virtual world of Second Life.
"Because virtual worlds like Second Life do not impose language barriers like the web does - that almost certainly means their ultimate utility range is larger, " he said.
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But as technology made possible large virtual arenas like Second Life or World of Warcraft, an online game with millions of players, so the overlap between cyberspace and real human existence began to grow.
But even as Congress illegalized online gambling act last year, virtual economies like Second Life have remained in a legal gray area, allowing players to wager game currency that is often traded for real-world money.
Instead of drinking stale coffee from a Styrofoam cup while leaning over a salesman's desk, the Maybach customer relaxes in a rich leather chair and sips from a china cup as his virtual car comes to life on a flat plasma screen.
Over twelve weeks, researchers at the University of Indiana divided weight loss participants into two groups: a group that went to a traditional fitness center and a group that received their workout training and advice at a virtual gym through Second Life.
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Instead of drinking stale coffee from a Styrofoam cup while leaning over a salesman's desk, the Maybach customer relaxes in a rich leather chair and sips from a china cup as his virtual car comes to life on a 50-inch flat plasma screen.
There are already a number of popular virtual worlds such as Second Life, There and Entropia Universe.
Since launching in 1999, Linden Labs' experiment has grown into a bona fide mini-economy, with 8.3 million users controlling "avatars" that live, socialize and do business within Second Life's virtual environment.
Their predictable behavior has resulted in giving enough life to this virtual non-story to vault Pawlenty into an orbit of appreciation among the GOP faithful that he could only dream of two short days ago.
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Ah, the life of a virtual manager.
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Virtual games such as Second Life and The Sims Online have not only proved to be commercially successful, but have also encouraged public interest and generated a wider understanding of the possibilities that virtual reality (VR) represents.
Life is becoming increasingly virtual, as we spend more and more time with our screens.
Through its partnership with TerraCycle a frontrunner in the upcycling movement Trash Tycoon enables users to earn virtual bonuses for upcycling in real life.
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