Stiletto Moody shoes are seen as a status symbol in the virtual world of Second Life.
More importantly, Second Life users are willing to spend lots of money in the virtual world.
Putting sensitive real-world data into the virtual world presents a few privacy problems, Paradiso admits.
That motion detection in turn controls the velocity of the treadmill and interactions with the virtual world.
The church has now been forced to restrict areas within the virtual world, including the altar and pulpit.
They need to understand how to live meaningfully in the virtual world .
He trusts Second Life's owners to honor his dedication to the virtual world.
They blogged, monitored and more importantly strategised what message the party needed to send out in the virtual world.
Real power lies in leveraging the virtual world to drive real-world events that bring people together in the flesh.
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In the virtual world as much as the real one, the past months have been filled with bleak economic news.
So, in the virtual world, why do most people meet up with their friends on massive social networks like Facebook?
Win a game in the virtual world, for instance, and the toy gains a new functionality in the real world.
However, with the virtual world bitcoin wealth being selectively anonymous and practically untaxable, it may just decide to stay there.
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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Social media thus can be a means to establish professional credibility and value that can be shared throughout the virtual world.
David Savill, 22, lives in Gloucester, England, in real life and created this spot within the virtual world of Second Life.
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Following a federal investigation, Second Life's parent company, Linden Lab, banned all gambling in the virtual world--a major source of its business.
To illustrate he points to a mission within the game in which players collect books for young girls in the virtual world.
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And while the debate over junkets rages in the virtual world, the practice does, in fact, have a history of official regulation.
The virtual world participants reported positive changes in all the healthy eating and physical activity measures except the number of hours slept.
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Zed Drebin is an avatar in the virtual world of Second Life.
In the Chinese business environment, even the virtual world has real walls.
But moving beyond segmentation and basic access control, the virtual world provides opportunities for innovative security that the physical world simply cannot fathom.
They met, however, not to take to the streets but to take on the virtual world, at one of Europe's biggest tech events.
Copyright, for example, arises through the player-supplied software, architectural designs, and graphics that are employed to help run and populate the virtual world.
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They will save on stocks indeed, they will be able to keep unlimited supplies of golden oldies, since the virtual world offers unlimited storage space.
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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Then the virtual world unfairly changed its rules, the suit says.
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