Knowing your customer, creating trust within the confines of a highly technological virtual world.
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In a virtual world, he hypothesized, people would be able to communicate in similar ways.
Even in a virtual world, communication is heavily dependent on two-way body language cues.
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.
Hotels.com is creating a new virtual world, which includes a touch of augmented reality.
This virtual world includes activities like Starfighter races, droid puzzles and tower defense mini-games.
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Panasjuk paid real money for something that exists only in the online virtual world.
State, in these games, is basically the data that describe the whole virtual world.
Putting sensitive real-world data into the virtual world presents a few privacy problems, Paradiso admits.
"Every explosion that happens in a virtual world is a good thing, " says Forterra's Chris Badger.
Shaker is a Facebook app for people to interact and meet in an avatar virtual world.
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Ito's buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world.
While it is an MMO, with levels and achievements, Glitch is quite open-ended like a virtual world.
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Its innovation is in relocating the now-decades-old interface of windows and folders to a shared virtual world.
But all eyes are going to be on Amazon and how it fares in the non-virtual world.
If you rate doing something in a virtual world to be a meaningful achievement, so be it.
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That motion detection in turn controls the velocity of the treadmill and interactions with the virtual world.
Virtual World allows users to swoop into an exact replica of the real world's terrain from any angle.
The church has now been forced to restrict areas within the virtual world, including the altar and pulpit.
Dropping it to 16C - the lowest setting in this virtual world - only shaves 7% off carbon emissions.
PlayStation Home, a 3-D virtual world on PlayStation Network, also says its virtual goods sales are doing well.
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One of the first, a planet called Rocktropia, brings recording companies, artists and gamers together in a virtual world.
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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.
"If you're just sitting in a virtual world and watching a Web presentation, you're wasting your money, " Rozwell says.
Real power lies in leveraging the virtual world to drive real-world events that bring people together in the flesh.
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The tax talks are likely to stoke debate over the role of national borders in an increasingly virtual world.
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In the virtual world as much as the real one, the past months have been filled with bleak economic news.
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