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Virtual

Virtual literally means: Almost there. It is not physical, tangible, and solid, but it is so close, it exists but does not tangibly exist.

The human mind is virtual - you can touch the brain, but never the mind, so either the mind is not real, or it is virtual - there but not tangibly so.

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Related Dictionary Entries for Virtual:

3D Game Engine

3D Participation

3D Participation Tool

3D Spaceball

Acoustic Ecology

Active Haptic Exploration

Active Simulant

Active Vision

Activity Dependent Plasticity

Actuator

Adjustable Camera

Admin

Administrator

Afferent Neuron

Agent

Alife

Alpha Translucency

Alpha Transparency

Alt

Alternate Life

Ambient Intelligence

Ambient Occlusion Map

Animated Pedagogical Agent

Ant Colony Optimisation Algorithms

AR

Artificial Consciousness

Artificial Ecology

Artificial Life

Artificial Reality

Assistive Agent

Attached Shadow

Attenuation Coefficient

Augmented Reality

Augmented Virtuality

Auto Action

Automaton

Automatonophile

Automatonophilia

Automatonophobia

Avatar

Backwards Raytracing

Balance Immersive Interface

Barf Zone

BCI

Beta Testing

Binaural Sound

Bind-on-equip

Bind-on-Pickup

Bind-on-Use

Bio Punk

Biocybernetic

Bioinspired

Biometric

Biometric Interface

Biometrics

Biomimetic Locomotion

Biopunk

Bladder

BMI

Body Suit

BoE

Bone Weighting

BoP

Bot

BoU

Brain Computer Interface

Brain Implant

Brain in the Bottle

Brain Machine Interface

Brain Stimulated Environments

Brain-Body Interface

Brain-Computer Interface

Brain-Machine Interface

BSE

Butler

BVR

C-Wall

C1

C2

C3

C4

C6

Cache Thrash

CAI

Camera Matrix

Cast Shadow

CATE

Caustic Shading

Caustics

CAVERN

CGI

Chat Bot

Chatbot

Chatterbot

Churn

Clinical Cyberpsychology

Clipping

Clipping plane

Co-Browsing

Cognitive AI

Cognitive Artificial Intelligence

Cognitive robot

Cognitive Robotics

Collaborative Virtual Environment

Collective Artificial Intelligence

Collision Detection System

Colocated AR

Colocated Augmented Reality

Computer-Aided Instruction

Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering

Computer-Assisted Virtual Environment Research Network

Computer-Supported Co-operative Play

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Consensus Reality

CSCL

CVE

Cyberdildonics

Cyberformance

Cyberpsychology

Cyberpunk

Cyberspace

Cyclorama

D-MRI

Data Glove

Data Gloves

DBS

Deck

Deep Brain Stimulator

Deep Learning Software

Deform on Touch

Depth Blur

Depth Fog

Depth Map

Depth of Field

Depth Pass

Diamond Square Algorithm

Diffusion MRI

Digital Vocal Tract Modelling

Diphthong

Direct Retinal Display

Directional Light Source

Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment

Distributed Virtual Environment

DIVE

DoT

Duke immersive Virtual Environment

Dupe

Dupe Item

Dynamic Hard Shadow

Dynamic Shadow

Dynamic Soft Shadow

E-therapy

EDR

Egocenter

Egocentre

Egocentric Viewpoint

Electrodermal Response

Electromyograph

Electronic Transcendence

Embodiment

Emigration Simulation

Entry VR

Environment

EPM

Eq

Equipment

Escorting

eSports

Event Related Potential

EVR

Exocentric Viewpoint

Exploratory Learning

Extended Identity

Extent of Presence Metaphor

External Light Block

Eyetap

Feedback Channel

FES

FFB

Fidelity

Field of View

First Person

First Person Perspective

Focus Blur

Fog Gradient

Fogging

Force Feedback

Format Frequency Synthesis

Forward Raytracing

Fourier transform

FoV

Fovea

Frame Grabber

Free Viewpoint Video

Freeform Surface Modelling

Freeform Surfacing

Full Force Feedback

Full Sensory Stimulation

Funsucker

FVV

Gait Analysis

Galvanic Skin Response

Gaze-Directed Steering

Geodata

Geographic Information Systems

Geographic Visualization

Geomorphology

Geomorphometrics

Geoprocessing

Geovisualization

Gesture Control

Gibson Matrix

GIS

Global Illumination

Gold Farming

GPGPU

Grab Handles

Graphical MUD

Grinder

Grunge Map

GSR

Hack & Slash

HALs

Haptic Bladder

Haptic Glove

Haptic Immersive Interface

Haptics

Hard Shadow

Hardware Abstraction Layers

HCI

Head Coupled

Head Mounted Display

Head-Related Transfer Function

Health Information Technology

Hearing Immersive Interface

Height Map

Height Mapped Terrain

Hierarchical Radiosity

High Level Interaction

Highly-parallel Integrated Virtual Environment

Highway In The Sky

HIT

HITS

HIVE

HMD

Hofstadter-Turing Test

Hotboot

Hotspot

HRTF

HUD

Huge Immersive Virtual Environment

Human Computer Interaction

Human Enhancement

Hybrid Simulation

Hyper Real

Hyperreality

Image Based Virtual Reality

Image Distance

Imm

Immersive Design

Immersive interface

Immersive Internet

in-world

Inconsistent Kinesthetic Feedback

Individual Vertex Bone Weighting

Information Theoretic Death

Input Glove

Interactive Dynamic Environment

Interactive Virtual Environment

Interactivity

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy

Intermingled Simulation

Interreality Physics

Interreality System

Intimate interface

Intimate Technology

ISAM

Isochronous

Isolation tank

Iterative Reconstruction

Java Virtual Environment Device Interface

JVEDI

Kansei

Kansei Engineering

Kinaesthetic Dissonance

Kinematic Chain

Kinematic Motion Estimation

Kinematic Pair

Lab On a Chip

Landform

Laparoscopy

LARP

Learning By Imitation

Lens Blur

Lifelogger

Linked Constant Light Output

Live, Virtual, and Constructive Simulation

LOC

Logizomechanophobia

Loot Whore

Low-level Interaction

Lurker

Luster

Machine Consciousness

Machinima

Magic Symbol

Magnetic Field Sensor

Malleable Object

Map Based Travel

Mass Automation

Massively Open Online Course

Mechanoreceptor

Meme

Memetic Engineering

Metaverse

Mind Upload

Mind Uploading

Mixed Reality

MMO

MOBA

MoCap

Model Space

MOG

Moire pattern

Monoscopic Display

MOOC

Motion Capture

MUD

Mule

Multi-User Shared Environment

Multimodal Sequence

Multimodal Sequence Navigation

Multiperson Space

Multiplayer Online Battle Arena

MUSE

MUVE

Navigation

Negative Obstacle

Netizen

Networked Virtual Environment

Neural Feedback

Neural Implant

Neurobiofeedback

Neurofeedback

Neurogaming

Neuroimaging

Neurolinguistics

Neuromusclar Electrical Stimulation

Neuroprosthetic

Neurotechnology

Newbie Welcome Wagon

NFB

Ninja Looter

NMES

No Clipping

Nociception

Non Linguistic Sound

Non-Linguistic Sound

Non-Photorealistic Rendering

NPR

NWW

Object Constancy

OFF

Opacity

Open File Format

Operant Conditioning

Optical See-Through System

OST

Ownership

Particle Swarm

Passive Haptic Exploration

Passive Remote Sensing

Passive Simulant

Patches

PBR

Perceptual User Interface

Perceptualization

Peripheral vision

Persistence of Vision

Persona Play

Perspective Correction

Persuasive Games

PGR

Phoneme

Phonology

Photo Realism

Photorealistic Texturing

Physical Simulation

Physically Based Rendering

Piezo Phototronics

Pinna

Pixel

Pixel Aspect Ratio

Pixel Boom Boom

Platform

Platonic Realism

Player versus Player

Point Light Source

Point Of View

Polygonal Modeller

Portal

Position Tracker

Post-WIMP interface

POV

Powergamer

Powergaming

Pre-rendering

Projected Consciousness

Projected Reality

Projection Matrix

Projection Point

Proprioceptor

Prosody

Psychogalvanic Reflex

PUI

PvP

QTVR

Quantified Self

QuickTime Virtual Reality

Raycast World

Raytracing

Real projection

Real Time

Reality Engine

Reality-Virtuality Continuum

Realspace Imaging

Region Rendering

Registration Problem

Rehabitainment

Reproduction Fidelity

Resonance

RIMVS

Rotation

RPI

Rumble Feedback

Scaled World Grab

Scaling

Scenes View

Scent Feedback

Scent Immersive Interface

SCR

Screen Space

See Through Display

Self-Occlusion

Semi-immersive

Sensor Fusion

Sensory Immersion

Sensory Reference

Sensory Reference Frame

Sensory Substitution Device

Server

Shadow Pass

Shadow People

Shard

Shards

Shared Virtual Environment

SI

SID

SimStim

Simulacra

Simulated reality

Simulated Sex

Simulation Brain Interface

Skin Conductance Response

Skybox

Skydome

SkySphere

Smart Prosthetic

Social Simulation

Social Virtual Environment

Sockpuppet

Sockpuppetry

Solid Modelling

Solid State Compass

Sonic Feedback

Soundscape

Spatial AR

Spatial Augmented Reality

Spatial Data

Spatial ETL

Spatial Extract, Transform, Load

Spatially adaptive AR

Spatially Adaptive Augmented Reality

Spatially Immersive Display

Speech Synthesis

Spot Light Source

SSD

Stereophotogrammetry

Stereoscopy

Sticky Finger

Surface Modelling

Swarm Intelligence

Sword of Damocles

Synchronous Dynamic Environment

Synchronous Virtual Environment

Synthetic Consciousness

Synthetic Economy

Synthetic Environment

Synthetic Reality

Synthetic Voice

Tabletop Display

Tactile Feedback

Tangible User Interface

Targeted Muscle Re-Innervation

Taste Immersive Interface

TCP

Techsplanation

Tele-Embodiment

Tele-Existence

Tele-immersion

Teleamore

Teledildonics

Teleport

Teleportation

Telepresence

Telesurgeon

Telesurgical Unit

Temporal Aliasing

Terrain

Tethered Viewpoint

Texture Mapping

Texturemapping

TFB

The Bazaar Model

The Cathedral Model

The Sensor Web

The Stroboscopic Effect

Thermal Feedback

Thin Data Stream

Third Person

Third Person Perspective

Three Principles of Reflexivity

TMR

Tomograph

Tone Mapping

Toon

Touch Sequence

Translation

Translucency

Transparency

True Impostors

TUI

UAT

UDP

Unencumbered Virtual Reality

Unmediated Reality

User Acceptance Testing

User-Extensible System

Vactor

VERT

Vertical Field of View

VHAR

VHD

VHMR

Video Eyewear

View Frustum

Viewer

Viewpoint

Virtopsy

Virtual

Virtual Actor

Virtual Animation

Virtual Autopsy

Virtual Bounding Plane

Virtual Cadaver

Virtual Camera

Virtual Clay

Virtual Colonography

Virtual colonoscopy

Virtual Community

Virtual Crime Investigation Unit

Virtual Displacement Mapping

Virtual Economy

Virtual Embodiment

Virtual Environment

Virtual Environment For Radiotherapy Training

Virtual Hand

Virtual Learning Environment

Virtual Mapping

Virtual MIS

Virtual Model Display

Virtual Observatory

Virtual PA

Virtual Patient

Virtual People

Virtual Person

Virtual Personal Assistant

Virtual Prototype

Virtual Prototyping

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Application

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Virtual Reality Tele-therapy

Virtual Reality Therapy

Virtual Retinal Display

Virtual Robot Simulation

Virtual Studio

Virtual Tactile Environment

Virtual Veld

Virtual Voice

Virtuality Continuum

Viseme

Visual Immersive Interface

Visual Searching

Visual Simulation

Visuo Haptic Augmented Reality

Visuo-Haptic Mixed Reality

VLE

VMD

Voice Changer

Voice Control

Voice Mask

VoIP

Volumetric Haptic Display

Volumetric Shadow

Volumetric Smooth-Shadow

Voxel

Voxel Sculpting

Voxel Sculpture

VR Course

VR-GIS

VR-tele-therapy

VR-therapy

VRD

VRET

VRML

VRWeb

VTE

Wallerstein Brain

Wearable Device

Wearable Display

What You See Is What I See

Whole Body Emulation

Widget

WIM

Window

Window on World

Wired Glove

World In Miniature

World Space

WoW

WTB

WTS

WYSIWIS

X3D

Z-Depth

Zooming User Interface

ZUI



 

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Julian Dibbell, freelance writer, and author of ?A Tiny Life? and other works chronicling the massive, disruptive impact of virtual lives on both the physical and the virtual. He tried a little experiment: was it possible to make more money from his forays into the virtual, buying and selling virtual items, than he makes as a successful writer?





Linked resource
Virtual worlds with real purposes
BBC Click examines the creation of a virtual copy of Berlin, intended as a space for virtual tourism.



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Ditching the V-Word
A lovely escapist magazine article about why the ?virtual? in virtual worlds and virtual environments, has outlived its usefulness, and is doing more harm than good, to the industry.



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Mugging ? on a Massive Virtual Scale
Industry News

News from the 18th of August 2005, the first recorded case of a man arrested for mugging a great many people in a virtual world - and then taking their virtual goods, and selling them wholesale on an auction website. Industrial grade mugging - in a virtual world.



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Virtual Property Theft ? Physical Murder
Industry News

Industry news, from 01-04-2005. Hands up who saw this one coming? That?s right, you can all put your hands down now. Virtual property, existing only in a database server, has long been a hot topic in virtual reality, as to who actually owns it. Now, this case has reached a new level, with the murder of a man accused of stealing a virtual sword.



Linked resource
A Proposal of Marriage
A short, but pointed article about virtual marriage, both in the difficulties of a real marriage in the virtual, and how the emotional involvement changes things, and then a look at the roleplaying benefits of pretend virtual marriages ? as opposed to real virtual marriages.



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Render Unto Caesar
Virtual worlds have shown themselves to have very real, and fairly powerful market forces when it comes to items from within them being traded openly on the internet. Time to stop arguing about the value of virtual, and start worrying about the reality of the virtual?



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Virtual Human? How about Virtual Voice?
Previously featured Industry News from September 2003, looking at the Vocaloid technology - the creation of virtual singers using voice fonts from previous artists.



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Virtual Limbs: Living with three arms
Virtual Reality is just beginning to head down the full body sensation reproduction path. We are at the very early stages of being able to recreate parts of the physical form, entirely in the virtual. This is a concept which is likely to have very a profound effect upon how we deal with the world around us.



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Non virtual, Virtual Simulator
Researchers at the Max Planck institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, have created a first of its kind: A virtual reality simulator that does not actually create simulations in VR-space. Instead, they exist in physical dimensions, just not exactly normal matter.



 

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(18/05/2004)
It has finally come of age, the virtual car. Slobber over it, rub your hands deep into the uphostery, leave drool smears on the dashboard. Have fun off all sorts with the car before you buy it, after all, its youur virtual Maybach. A cross ...


(19/10/2008)
Dubit Research put together a report for Virtual Worlds Forum asking its panel of 600 7-to-12-year-olds about their habits in virtual worlds. The numbers are fairly in line with those reported by Nielsen over the summer: 73% of surveyed tw...


(18/06/2007)
13 - 14 September 2007
The Serious Games Institute, Coventry, UK

The Serious Games Institute and Ambient Performance announce the first Serious Virtual Worlds conference.

The Programme


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(08/11/2008)
"Evidence supports the conclusion that the 'killer application' that is critical to virtual worlds -- and, by extension, to Web 3.0 -- is, in fact, already here and it is none other than social networking," says Vahid Dejwakh, In-Stat a...


(11/11/2003)
It had to happen, really. Given the increasing fidelity of modern graphics, the increasing sophistication of VR, and the over abundance of hormones possessed by all too many developers. Welcome to the world's first beauty pageant for vi...