The public is getting the full play-by-play in virtual real time, leaving Carnival playing catchup from an increasingly defensive posture.
For example, AirStrip offers virtual real time remote patient heart monitoring technology to a broad array of acute patient clinical settings.
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The rules don't apply to individuals who simply use virtual currencies to purchase real or virtual goods.
Mitsukoshi, Shiseido, and Fujitsu have teamed up to bring a virtual, real-time makeover machine into Japanese department stores in order to give women a chance to test out a smorgasbord of shades on their virtual face before throwing down their hard earned loot.
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In fact, given the incessant reblogging of food pictures taken by others or oneself, shaky cell phone camera in hand at a local fine dining hotspot, food is not so much genuinely loved as it is madly stalked, photographed, instagram filtered, traded, and collected on virtual and real walls.
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.
All that will then be needed to make the virtual office indistinguishable from a real one are virtual daggers to allow the avatars to stab one another in the back.
Real power lies in leveraging the virtual world to drive real-world events that bring people together in the flesh.
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They caution, though, that there are important differences between virtual plagues and real ones.
BTW, if Cain quits tonight, it will be another triumph of the virtual over the real.
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This Warfighter example is however probably the direct cross-promotion between virtual guns and real guns.
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Using the bar, players can also directly purchase virtual currency with real money.
These stored value cards give kids without credit cards a way to buy the in-game virtual currencies with real money.
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In the Chinese business environment, even the virtual world has real walls.
Ternovskiy sucked down a glass of fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice and pattered on about happiness and the intersection between virtual reality and real reality.
Movie rentals marks an extension of the credits system beyond virtual goods to real services, and (who knows) could potentially lead to physical goods.
Satellite images and geographical data can be fed into the software to generate virtual representations of real places, allowing soldiers to rehearse specific missions.
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Do spend time online making connections, but you must take a step from the virtual to the real world, if you want to land a job.
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But the virtual absence of real victims makes it highly unlikely that delinquent homeowners will receive more in court than they could under the proposed agreement.
For example, we recently launched Deloitte Brand Experience 2.0 a cutting-edge virtual community with real-time collaboration functionality, including a link to our global brand presence on Facebook (internal only).
Because Entropia has a real cash economy (players can exchange Project Entropia Dollars for real U.S. dolllars at a fixed 10:1 exchange rate), virtual entrepreneurs can start real moneymaking businesses in the game.
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"Next-generation games blur the lines between real and virtual worlds more than ever before, " he said.
Google is about fluidity and search and making virtual things seem more real than reality, itself.
They tested 600 subjects when surrounded by red, blue or neutral colors in both real and virtual environments.
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He added that this would create a "real life virtual experience", in contrast to virtual reality with artificial images.
With more disclosure comes more paper work, both real and virtual, and more information for investors and analysts to sift through.
Is it really such a radical departure to have military chaplain practice their pastoral skills on virtual soldiers instead of real ones?
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Grimmelmann, the law professor, said the virtual land does have real value.
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