After he builds a virtual model of his lego creation, he can share it.
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Elements of this virtual model have been in development for decades, but in most cases the results have been somewhat primitive.
Or that Ingrid Bergman should be a virtual model for Juicy Couture?
They are programmed into the virtual model as well, creating a detailed virtual city which anyone can navigate with the click of a computer mouse.
Blue Nile adopted a virtual model, in which it provides a shop window for suppliers yet does not put any of its own capital at risk.
The main problem, as it is everywhere in the news business, is twofold: getting paid enough to sustain the coverage by whatever means, while transitioning to an increasingly virtual model that maximizes distribution and monetizes those clicks somehow.
The virtual model changes the cost structure: no need for office space, tax professionals can be anywhere ( India?), and probably customers can be led to a greater degree of self-service, since the process is already occurring on their computer.
The virtual reality model of Los Angeles begins with aerial photos of the city.
This virtual business model enables us to reach into Tier 3 sized communities to find the best talent at the lowest rural America prices.
Not every VC believes in this strategy, and full-blown biotech companies are still being funded today, but the project-focused virtual development model is on the rise.
Jim Dilettoso of Village Labs, who has been researching UFOs for 20 years, is in the process of reconstructing the incident with a virtual reality model.
The virtual ISP model of Spinway and 1stUp looks a lot more compelling over the long run than the model of NetZero, currently the biggest free ISP.
The virtual reconstruction of Implenia's data center pulled information about the layout of servers and storage, the devices' temperatures, power consumption and data processing over the Internet to IBM's servers, where they were built into a 3-D virtual world model.
Is the range-bound Linden Dollar of Second Life the future model of virtual currency and virtual monetary policy?
The success of Virgin Mobile in the U.K. and Amp'd Mobile in the U.S. prove the so-called mobile virtual network operator business model.
Samba, a new virtual network in the UK offers just that, in a model similar to the Blyk virtual operator before it.
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Any game that requires a player to generate wealth by trading with other players for virtual currency will provide an enlightening model of capitalism.
Altman thinks the virtual loyalty card concept is a better model for local advertising than search engines.
Resource pooling is the ability of a cloud to serve multiple customers using a multi-tenant model with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to demand.
For more than a year, company execs have been discussing becoming a "mobile virtual network operator, " or MVNO, a model under which a company skips the expensive process of building a national phone network, instead signing on with an existing provider and rebranding its service.
That opens up the possibility of putting virtual objects into the real world, letting you "pick up" a computer-generated 3D architectural model and spin it around in your hand, for instance, or gesture to control a virtual display appearing on an actual wall.
If younger gamers spend the most time, an advertising-driven model may be more profitable than a purely virtual goods-based approach.
In social business model, the two teams need to become one virtual team that is ideally co-located.
The laptop uses the GPS data to maintain a 3D model which keeps the vehicle correctly positioned in the virtual world, and much "like a novel, " the story unfolds as different turns (ahem) take place based on the decisions players make.
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Similarly, by adjusting the parameters of the mathematical model, it is possible to change the design of the virtual car, trying out different gearboxes and gear ratios, or adjusting the suspension.
Even if they make a clay model, as opposed to doing it, say, in virtual reality, they do it with electronics that can cut the clay in a matter of hours, and if they have a change, they can blend, electronically, the two designs and come up with an all-new one and have another clay model ready overnight.
Videogame developers are taking the model of free-to-play social games supported by a virtual goods these days very seriously.
That will come in the form of virtual goods which they are already doing and a new adsense like community ad model.
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The organizations that win from that model are those that deal extensively or entirely with information, knowledge or other virtual goods.
On its differentiation strategy, Rakuten positioned itself as a virtual shopping mall, based on a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) model.
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