Word: virtualization
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...emerged to the world in 1991 with its smash hit, the violent and blood-filled Wolfenstein 3-D, one of the first games to provide some form of virtual reality, as players felt immersed in a Nazi dungeon...
Diane's liaison with "The Weasel," as her cyber-Romeo signed his E-mail, may not meet the legal definition of adultery--which implies physical, not virtual, coupling. But there's no doubt that cyberromances, whether licit or not, generate genuine feelings. "This is not the same as reading Playboy," says psychologist Sherry Turkle of M.I.T, author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon & Schuster; $25). "There really is another person there, and that person can touch you and move you in various ways, emotionally and sexually...
...advantage of a virtual affair is that it shifts the emphasis in a relationship from outward appearances to inner thoughts and feelings. Result: a quick and intense intimacy. That tends to make women happy. "It forces men to do something they don't normally engage in: communication," says psychologist Al Cooper of the San Jose Marital and Sexuality Centre. "You have to communicate...
Having left their two children at home with a babysitter, Mike and Dianne began with virtual skiing. Then they strapped into "Zone Hunter," a virtual shoot-'em-up that allows two players to interact in cyberspace...
These services, however, can be expensive. Rates for the different services vary from 20 cents per minute for Internet access to a five dollar fee for a virtual reality "experience...