The digital one, an edifice built of software, takes in all that information and automatically acts on it. If a door opens in the real world, so does its virtual equivalent.

而在那个数字成像的世界中，一个由软件建造起的大楼吸收了真实世界的所有信息数据，然后将它们通过设定好的程序自动反映出来。

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And that's why we use things like menus, checkouts, shopping baskets, buttons, folders, arrows - digital representations of real-life objects that help us understand the virtual world in front of us.

这就是为什么我们使用菜单一样的东西，结帐，购物篮，按钮，文件夹，箭头-现实生活的对象，帮助我们了解在我们面前的虚拟世界的数字表示。

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That moment of inspiration brought together the physical world of products and the virtual world of data, laying the foundation for a data-based, digital economy.

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While virtual reality has tried (and till now failed) to entice us into a virtual world, augmented reality overlays digital, virtual information onto the real world with the help of a simple camera, screen and software in between.

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