There Anantawan was introduced to a device, called a Virtual Music Instrument, that translates movement into sound.
He hopes someday to implement educational practices, working with devices such as the Virtual Music Instrument, that can be adopted by other schools around the globe.
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The Virtual Music Instrument software is designed to play prerecorded musical samples when the person waves a hand or tilts their head, activating symbols on the screen.
Like a motion-controlled video gaming system, the Virtual Music Instrument employs a camera that is mounted on a computer screen and aimed at someone, capturing their gestures.
The project concluded with Wan using the Virtual Music Instrument, guided by movements of his head, to play Pachelbel's "Canon in D" during a 2011 concert with the Montreal Chamber Orchestra.
"There's a silence that falls upon the room as the kids watch him play, " said Tom Chau, vice president for research at Holland Bloorview, and who developed the Virtual Music Instrument.
Features included a phonebook that rotated, akin to a virtual Rolodex, and music albums that flipped when swiped with a finger.
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"The proposal would deal with the purchase over the internet of virtual goods - sound, music, etc - which you can download, " he said.
Virtual item sales include movies and music for digital download, as well as games and avatar accessories.
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More than half of that is from sales of digital items like movies, music and games, but also virtual goods.
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The European Commission has said it is studying a proposal to impose value added tax (VAT) on sales of music, software and other "virtual" goods over the internet.
The service overall brings to mind the start-up Turntable.fm, a site for people to deejay music for their friends in a virtual club, though Shaker has more ways to interact with people.
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This is a much larger integration, including downloads of music, gift cards, and promotional virtual goods across its many games.
Players can go on music-related quests, listen to live virtual concerts and spend money on goods and services in the game.
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"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.
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You can achieve a similar result via virtual sculpture gardens with a multiplayer feature, provided the level design and the music are pretty enough to move the users.
The site will allow visitors to watch footage of the Beatles' performances, contact one another and take virtual tours through the Abbey Road studios where the band made most of their music.
Preparing a song is complicated, and involves preparing an array of specialized digital sound files, lyrics, transcriptions and even instructions for virtual camera angles, lighting and choreography for the animated characters that perform the music within the game itself.
"We've been asked by service providers to see what we could do with a box in the home--ways to move music around the house, set up mobile units, or establish virtual private networks between home and business, " said Dan Sheinman , Cisco's senior vice president for corporate development.
Your sofa (or maybe even your Snuggie) could become a virtual command center, giving you easy control over the dimming of the lights or home music system.
This has led to all kinds of widgets, from the useful (comparing Facebookers' music and film tastes, say) to the inane (biting each other to become virtual zombies).
As a result, music is likely to become the most valuable product to make the move from the physical world to the virtual.
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