Real power lies in leveraging the virtual world to drive real-world events that bring people together in the flesh.

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Drobo BeyondRAID, which provides thin provisioning, instant expansion, mixed drive size flexibilty, automatic protection levels, dual-disk redundancy, virtual hot spare, and drive reordering.

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Virtual goods, which drive the majority of Zynga revenue, are game tokens purchased by users to improve game play.

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The interesting aspect of this event is that gamers will be able to drive a virtual version of that very Camaro next year.

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So by giving them a virtual product, it can drive and uplift sales.

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Instead, the participant is the center and the participant will drive the balance of virtual vs. physical engagement.

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In the relentless drive to turn physical things into virtual ones, the purpose served by the coffee table book will soon be served by the coffee table itself, and for the same reasons.

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Although in the Institute's study only a small proportion of managers think that technologies such as holograms, robots and bio-chips will be used to drive business efficiency in the next 10 years, the overwhelming majority think that virtual business will be commonplace and this will lead to increased virtual contact.

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Using videogame software code, he has built a virtual reality arm based on an arm wired with FES. Donoghue translates brain signals, and Kirsch uses them to drive the arm on a computer screen.

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