Word: virtual
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...Next I looked for vacations. Selecting every shot from a given trip, I chose ?Place on Map...? then typed in my trip location. It labeled the pictures, and placed a virtual pushpin on a world map. I can click various pins to get slideshows of my trips. That?s really all the feature does at present - you can?t click on a pin to print or e-mail all of those shots - but it?s fun and hopefully the beginning of something better...
...these changes are possible in Second Life, a three-dimensional virtual community in which famously eccentric professor Charles R. Nesson ’60 is offering a cyber-law course this semester...
Second Life is a virtual world which allows users to name themselves and choose the appearance of their avatars. Participants receive a certain amount of free currency (Linden dollars), but can only purchase further currency by linking their account to a credit card. Second Life users interact in real time: typing conversations, shopping for clothes and real estate, and, as of this fall, attending a Harvard class...
Yesterday, class discussion at HLS centered on whether virtual worlds were real enough to garner concerns about their laws and governance. Third-year law student Kwan Bul argued that Second Life is not to be taken too seriously, saying “it is more like an acid trip than anything else. You are getting your jollies by staring at a computer screen...
...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty