The key for marketers is to learn how this collision of real and virtual time and space can be of the greatest benefit to their brands and the consumers who buy them.
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Just a short ride from the French Quarter, in historic neighborhoods such as Treme and the Ninth Ward, it's not hard to find a virtual time capsule from the days when Katrina roared ashore.
"This is the first step in the creation of a virtual time machine, which our children and grandchildren will use to study the history of Rome and many other great cities around the world, " he said.
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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Others require "virtual face time" via email, instant messaging or calls.
Other touted attractions include a joyride through British history and virtual-reality time travel.
Hollywood studios or video game prodigies can build photorealistic real-time virtual worlds.
To this end, when many people think about full-time virtual schools, one of their biggest fears is about students in their younger years.
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Entering 2012, the state of Virginia was coping with the effects of a faulty funding formula, which did not provide equity for all students statewide, that the existence of full-time virtual schools had exposed.
States that have put in policies that allow for uncapped charter schools, which themselves are increasingly utilizing blended learning to reach all children, publicly available and uncapped full-time virtual schools, and other such options are ahead of the curve.
By combining real-time virtual feeds with other technological devices, fans will effectively be able to sit in a local stadium and take in the game being played on the field, though the game is actually being played at a different venue entirely.
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It has now moved beyond just wondering whether full-time virtual learning opportunities have a place in the state to also discussing the role of blended learning, a practice that many districts in the state have actually already adopted in various forms.
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With lawsuits flying around and other shenanigans taking place (one lawsuit seeks to close down two schools that it said were full-time virtual schools, when they are in fact blended-learning schools, for example), I was pleased to have the opportunity about a month ago to travel to the Garden State to testify in a hearing before the Joint Committee on Public Schools about online learning.
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It supports only one virtual machine at a time, while VMware's Fusion and Parallels support more (Fusion can run 20 virtual machines concurrently).
Coworkers need to balance virtual communication and face time.
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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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Listen to Scott Redler navigate the markets in real time on the Virtual Trading Floor.
He says he made the purchase partly because he wants to be able to spend more time in the virtual world.
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Older demographics may have more disposable income, or a desire to progress further within games via virtual goods to save valuable time.
Bottom Line: the workforce of today is specialized and highly virtual: working part-time, mobile, from home, and often on a contract basis.
Like Dr Ehrsson's experiment, volunteers were fitted with stereoscopic headsets and were shown images of virtual figures -- this time the figures appeared in front of them.
It counts all revenue from virtual goods sales at the time the player purchases them, providing investors a read on the pulse of business momentum regardless of the timing of revenue recognition.
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Senate Bill 598 was introduced in January to fix the problem by insuring fair funding for public school students who wanted access to full-time, statewide virtual schools that had been approved by during a rigorous review process by the Virginia Department of Education.
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Those who spend a lot of time online playing in virtual worlds are interested in keeping their day (or night) job.
The trigger for the excitement was Siri, the artificial intelligence based virtual assistant introduced for the first time in an iPhone.
All this pedestal rattling made it easier to go after a figure who by this time had become a virtual secular deity--William Shakespeare.
With its full head and motion tracking support, the technology is a milestone for real-time gaze interaction with virtual avatars or 3D gaming applications.
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