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News Scientists at the University of Manchester have created a virtual world which they are using to test telepathic ability. In addition to selecting objects and hearing the sounds they make, participants are able to hold and move them within the...
[19 Jul 2006]
Comment The brave new world of virtual worlds creates a constellation of new - and still foggy - legal questions. Linden Research, raises a number of real-world legal issues that now are cropping up in virtual worlds.
[14 Jun 2007]
Photo Virtual-world developers using Multiverse Networks' platform are able to import 3D models from Google's 3D Warehouse into their projects. Not everything imported into a Multiverse virtual world has to be realistic.
[15 Oct 2007]
whitepaper Using a virtual world system for GPS-phones, the authors have developed a small RPG-like game to give information to tourists. Comparing with other virtual systems for mobile terminals, the cost of the system is much lower because only phones on...
[23 Feb 2006]
whitepaper The VWDS is designed to provide data storage for multiple, simultaneous high-performance clients running different multimedia and virtual world applications. It serves the data on demand over the network with a sufficient data transfer rate to...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper Next, it moves on and looks at the Microsoft road map for virtualization, before examining what workloads make good candidates for virtualization and explaining why to consider moving these workloads into a virtual world.
[14 Jan 2008]
News As a result companies should seriously evaluate the availability of private virtual-world environments, hosted internally and existing entirely inside the enterprise firewall. Uncontrolled virtual worlds represent an environment "fraught with...
[09 Aug 2007]
whitepaper Now the world wide web is used to create a virtual conference room, for faster and better decision making.Polycom’s webstation is a web-based presentation and meeting system that lets you hold group conferences on a moment’s notice anywhere the...
[24 Feb 2004]
News If you want to build a virtual world centred on, say, downtown San Francisco, you could use the new technology to create the area itself and populate it with the digital versions of real-world buildings that have been created and uploaded to the...
[09 Oct 2007]
whitepaper Imagine having a virtual body double that enables shoppers to order personal clothing items online with the confidence that they will fit and look good. A team from Accenture Technology Labs helped client My Virtual Model design such a system that...
[13 May 2004]
whitepaper The viewer of this webcast will learn about the Virtual Server COM API and how to create scripts to automate tasks like virtual machine creation, configuration, enumeration, and provisioning VMs for a test lab.
[31 Mar 2007]
whitepaper As server virtualization goes mainstream, the workloads of virtual machines are taking on mission-critical proportions. Uses range from application-dense server consolidation, to failover and disaster recovery, to managing the virtualized...
[23 Aug 2007]
whitepaper Membership on these "virtual teams" is fluid, with teams forming and disbanding as needed, with team size fluctuating as necessary, and with team members coming and going as they are needed. To be truly useful for a virtual team, these tools must...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper It's an area their researchers call "virtual worlds," and it promises to deliver training in a way that leads more quickly to the kinds of behaviors organizations need from their employees in order to execute strategy better than their competitors.
[13 May 2004]
whitepaper This white paper discusses the requirements, issues associated with user authentication are explored, and the reasons why many enterprises continue to struggle to implement cost-effective authentication mechanisms are addressed.
[20 Apr 2004]
whitepaper Service providers who want to capture the emerging business market for New World VPN services need reliable networks to support them. These networks must be scalable, cost-effective, and capable of handling a wide range of customer requirements...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper It has been demonstrated that stronger authentication methods are required by enterprises due to the expanding network boundary and increasing access points. However, security is only part of the equation.
[27 Dec 2004]
whitepaper Emerging technologies such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, Java TM technology, and software components are accelerating product life cycles and encouraging collaboration across organizational boundaries.
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper Other concerns relate to the fair use doctrine in section 107 and fair use guidelines such as those for Classroom Copying in Not-for-Profit Educational Institutions.1 How will these principles apply in a virtual environment?
[24 Feb 2004]
News Social networking will move from the computer to the street while an "augmented reality" will become part of our lives over the next few years. These are some of the predictions from BT futurologist Ian Pearson whose job is to look at how new and...
[26 Jun 2007]
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