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Intel and Nokia to develop 3D mobile UIs

...collaborate on developing new mobile user interfaces that use 3D graphics and virtual worlds, and have established a joint research laboratory in Finland. Opened on... Read more

24 August, 2010 by David Meyer
Network Traces of <endeca_term>Virtual Worlds</endeca_term>: Measurements and Applications

Network Traces of Virtual Worlds: Measurements and Applications

Although network traces of virtual worlds are valuable to ISPs (Internet Service Providers), virtual world software developers... Read more

25 February, 2011
Steps Towards a Design Theory for <endeca_term>Virtual Worlds</endeca_term>

Steps Towards a Design Theory for Virtual Worlds

Virtual worlds, construed in a sense broad enough to include text - based systems... Read more

1 January, 2011
Emerson: Scripting for Federated <endeca_term>Virtual Worlds</endeca_term>

Emerson: Scripting for Federated Virtual Worlds

The authors introduce Emerson, a scripting language for virtual worlds that are seamless, scalable, and federated. These worlds present a number... Read more

19 July, 2010
Exploiting XML-RPC: A Framework for Adaptive Creation of <endeca_term>Virtual Worlds</endeca_term> in Second Life

Exploiting XML-RPC: A Framework for Adaptive Creation of Virtual Worlds in Second Life

Virtual Reality is gaining in popularity increasingly. It reduces training costs and costs incurred by building actual... Read more

23 September, 2011
Emerson: Accessible Scripting for Applications in an Extensible Virtual World

Emerson: Accessible Scripting for Applications in an Extensible Virtual World

...presents Emerson, a new programming system for scripting objects in user-extensible virtual worlds such as Second Life, Active Worlds, Open Wonderland, etc. Emerson's... Read more

27 October, 2011
Face Recognition in the Virtual World: Recognizing Avatar Faces

Face Recognition in the Virtual World: Recognizing Avatar Faces

Criminal activity in virtual worlds is becoming a major problem for law enforcement agencies. Forensic investigators... Read more

24 January, 2011

Intel, Nokia team up to create 3D mobile future

Virtual worlds and 3D holograms on the agenda at new joint R&D... Read more

24 August, 2010 by Natasha Lomas
Relationship Between Students' Overall Satisfaction From 3D Virtual Learning Spaces and Their Individual Design Components

Relationship Between Students' Overall Satisfaction From 3D Virtual Learning Spaces and Their Individual Design Components

3D virtual worlds, such as Second Life, are increasingly being used for delivering e... Read more

1 July, 2010

Photos of the year: From weird datacentres to a 3D printer that prints chocolate

...fiction as a series of worlds: alien worlds, future worlds, parallel worlds, virtual worlds and the end of the world. Discover more of the exhibits... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

eBay bolsters PayPal with Zong buy

...Facebook Credits and has partnered with many of the social gaming and virtual worlds' biggest companies, including Zynga. "Our customers love the convenience of paying... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Steven Musil

Mozilla defends WebGL over security concerns

...in Android and iOS devices. WebGL opens up online possibilities such as virtual worlds and graphically rich games, and it is already built into Mozilla... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Adobe predicts location-linked apps

...in London, stems from the ever-tighter links between the physical and virtual worlds people inhabit. And it shows that there is still plenty of... Read more

10 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland
Mole's World 1.1.5

Mole's World 1.1.5

...any help.Taomee has created several of China's most popular online virtual worlds for children, including Mole's World, Seer, Flower Fairy, Gong Fu... Read more

26 May, 2012
Mental Case 2.2.2

Mental Case 2.2.2

...can collect just about any piece of information from the real and virtual worlds, and will remind you about it when you next sit down... Read more

3 May, 2012

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@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

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apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

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