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Showing 1 to 20 of 5706 for “"Virtual"”.
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Virtual institutions
This thesis establishes Virtual Institutions as a comprehensive software engineering technology for the development of 3D Virtual Worlds that require normative regulation of participants’ interactions (such as the commercially-oriented Virtual Worlds). 3D Virtual Worlds technology currently offers …
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Users' understandings of the virtual economy in social virtual worlds: consumption and entrepreneurship of virtual goods
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) such as Second Life have gained immense popularity during the last decade. Their popularity is reflected in the explosive growth of the in-world economy, which is mainly supported by users’ consumption of virtual goods and entrepreneurial behavior. Users’ economic …
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Checkpointing in distributed virtual memory by utilizing local virtual memory
… using checkpointing in a distributed shared virtual memory (DVM) system. DVM shares virtual memory in a loosely-coupled multi-computer system and is implemented at the software-level. The goal of this recovery strategy is to obtain a consistent recovery line that is close to the time of …
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Virtual city testbed
… and very detailed simulation capabilities. The Virtual City Testbed addresses aspects that are not available in these tools. Primarily, the test bed provides the ability for interaction with the traffic system in real time. Instead of basing the simulation solely on automated vehicle models, we …
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The virtual tester
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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The tort of virtual negligence : a proposition to regulate virtual worlds
… of negligence law to hold inhabitants of virtual worlds—avatars and their users—liable for their negligent virtual actions. To address this issue, this essay proposes recognizing the tort of virtual negligence. It is defined using a transsystemic and functional approach that combines …
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Virtual Students/Virtual Teachers: the Reality of Student Responsibility in Education
<p>A wide range of possibilities exists for the use of computers in the freshman composition classroom. Computer technology can help students reach and understand new concepts of learning. A computer "pedagogy" in the writing class can promote collaboration, responsibility for learning, decentering …
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Evaluation study of virtual network embedding for short-lived virtual networks
… data storage, scientific and research purposes. Virtualization technology is an essential element for these services. Virtualization enables the creation of multiple virtual instances on physical or hardware infrastructure. Network virtualization is a recent advancement in this field through …
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Enhancing HPC on Virtual Systems in Clouds through Optimizing Virtual Overlay Networks
Virtual Ethernet overlay provides a powerful model for realizing virtual distributed and parallel computing systems with strong isolation, portability, and recoverability properties. However, in extremely high throughput and low latency networks, such overlays can suffer from bandwidth and latency …
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The Problem of the "Virtual": Virtual Reality, Digital Dualism, and Religious Experience
… of digital dualism haunting notions of the "virtual" in the discourse of contemporary virtual reality technologies (VR). Digital dualism is the idea that digital or "virtual" worlds are fundamentally distinct from the "real" or physical world. Digital dualism is a problem because it …
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Virtual equivalence : matching visual scene and treadmill walking speeds in virtual reality
… a perceptually sensitive environment, such as virtual reality. Designers of virtual environments that utilize self-motion perception should consider calibrating PERs within a session for each individual user and be aware that that the subject's calibration may change over time.
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Virtual laboratories in education
Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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Virtual Graffiti: Dyscribing Humans
… valuable heuristic bridges from traditional to virtual culture, and laying the groundwork for disciplinary study of such practices. This study joins these efforts, by tracking the emergence of a new, ‘digital-borne’ analogue to traditional graffiti praxis, which it terms ‘virtual dyscription’ …
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Virtual Reality Engine Development
… and cheaper sensor and display technologies, virtual reality is becoming increasingly popular in the fields of gaming, therapy, training and visualization. Earlier attempts at popularizing VR technology were plagued by issues of cost, portability and marketability to the general public. Modern …
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Virtual Crowd Interactive Applications
This thesis explores virtual crowd interactive applications: applications where large numbers of physically distributed people (tens of thousands) interact as a unified crowd. The purpose is to drive what social psychology identifies as the collective experience, a sense of: unity with many others; …
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The virtual erector set
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.
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The virtual acoustic room
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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Virtual Community Orientation Project
… project proposes the creation of a synchronous virtual community / social network to not only encourage social integration but also physical integration through use of the network.
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