* Machinima, ( recording video from games and virtual worlds )

In the 21st century it is possible to find a map of virtually anything from the inner workings of the human body to the virtual worlds of cyberspace.

Other technology methods used in the delivery of distance education include interactive radio instruction ( IRI ), interactive audio instruction ( IAI ), online three-dimensional ( 3D ) virtual worlds, immersive environments, digital games, webinars, web casts etc.

A popular 3D virtual world, active worlds, is used for synchronous and asynchronous learning.

Crystal distinguishes among five Internet situations: The Web, email, asynchronous chat ( for example mailing lists ), synchronous chat ( for example Internet Relay Chat ) and virtual worlds.

The history of modern Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games ( MMORPGs ) like World of Warcraft, and related virtual world genres such as the social virtual worlds exemplified by Second Life, traces directly back to the MUD genre.

" A Story About A Tree " is a short essay written by Raph Koster regarding the death of a LegendMUD player named Karyn, raising the subject of inter-human relationships in virtual worlds.

In another combination of real and virtual worlds, Chris Burke's talk show This Spartan Life takes place in Halo 2s open multiplayer environment.

MMORPGs and other virtual worlds have been captured in documentary films, such as Miss Galaxies 2004, a beauty pageant that took place in the virtual world of Star Wars Galaxies.

Practically all internet services and applications exist or have similar cousins on mobile, from search to multiplayer games to virtual worlds to blogs.

Layouts as possible accessories for the Perky Pat virtual worlds -- but Barney, recognizing them as Emily's, rejects them out of spite.

The attraction of manufacturing their own lifeforms and living in virtual worlds of their own design may dwarf any of the inclinations to explore space that we would expect them to have.

One of the newer methods developed for conducting a synchronous remote usability test is by using virtual worlds.

Other science fiction books have promoted the idea of virtual reality as a partial, but not total, substitution for the misery of reality, or have touted it as a method for creating breathtaking virtual worlds in which one may escape from Earth.

David Em was the first fine artist to create navigable virtual worlds in the 1970s.

MMORPGs, originating in the mid-to-late 1990s, become a popular PC trend and virtual online worlds become a reality as games such as RuneScape ( 2001 ), Final Fantasy XI ( 2002 ), Eve Online ( 2003 ), Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided ( 2003 ), World of Warcraft ( 2004 ), and Everquest II ( 2004 ), The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar ( 2007 ) and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning ( 2008 ) are released.

Along with these, already traditional, methods recent expansion of corporate use of Second Life and other virtual worlds led to development of a newer generation of software that takes advantage of a 3D data presentation.

Some of this software ( 3D Topicscape ) works independently from virtual worlds and simply uses 3D to support user " in concept creation, planning, organization, development and actualization ".

Other designed specifically to assist in collaboration when using virtual worlds as a business platform, while yet another type of software, Collaborative Knowledge Management ( cKM ), bridges the gap and can be used simultaneously in Second Life and on the web.

Second life and MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft are examples of artificial environments or virtual worlds ( falling some way short of full virtual reality ) in cyberspace.

In contrast, the new e-learning places increased emphasis on social learning and use of social software such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and virtual worlds such as Second Life.

* Burroughs produced the B1700 or " small systems " computers that were designed to be microprogrammed, with each process potentially getting its own virtual machine designed to be the best match to the programming language chosen for the program being run.

Later upgrades produced the compatible DECSYSTEM-20, along with TOPS-20 that included virtual memory.

The advantage of this design ( produced by Ted Curtain Engineering, Curtain being a fellow " Guinea Pig ") was the virtual elimination of factors able to interfere with accurate results-for instance ambient humidity or temperature.

Similar to mirrors, upright images produced by single lenses are virtual while inverted images are real.

Although in fact it has a different organisation and a wholly civil mission, its training and activities over more than two decades as an anti-terrorist force have produced markedly military characteristics, giving it the appearance of a virtual fourth military service with significant land, sea and air capabilities and approximately 140, 000 personnel.

Since the time of peak production in 1971, when Biwa pearl farmers produced six tons of cultured pearls, pollution has caused the virtual extinction of the industry.

In a layer-based model, the target image is produced by " painting " or " pasting " each layer, in order of decreasing depth, on the virtual canvas.

* In order to support large programs within the PDP-11's relatively small virtual address space of 64 KB, a sophisticated semi-automatic overlay system was used ; for any given program, this overlay scheme was produced by RSX's taskbuilder program ( called TKB ).

A number of other studios produced TV cartoons, such as Filmation ( Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, The Archies ) and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises ( The Pink Panther ), but Hanna-Barbera had developed a virtual lock on Saturday morning cartoons by the 1970s.

In layman ’ s terms, “ Internet Time ” involves efficiencies inherent to digital transactions that are produced by the virtual reality of one product, one product type, or one service provided to consumers from one virtual cash register residing on one server.

This new OS was produced in a little more than a year's time and incorporated technology from Carnegie Mellon University: the Mach 2. 5 microkernel ; from IBM, the journaled file system as well as commands and libraries ; from SecureWare secure core components ; from BSD the networking stack ; and a new virtual memory management system invented at OSF.

For bosonic particles that exhibit rest mass when they are free and " real ," virtual interactions are characterized by the relatively short range of the force interaction produced by particle exchange.

To date, the Players ' Committee has produced 8 blocks of virtual sets ( over 20 total sets ).

The DVD release came with several special features, including a behind-the-scenes look at the film's production, describing how the zombies were created, and how certain visual effects were performed or produced ; a scene anatomy of the graveyard ; a virtual interactive ride of the film's Haunted Mansion with Emma and Ezra as hosts ; a single deleted scene ; an outtake reel ; and a minute and a half long video about the attractions.

The report was produced as an April Fools ' Day joke in 1957, showing a family in the canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland as they gathered a bumper spaghetti harvest after a mild winter and " virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil ".

Forterra Systems, Inc. was a 3D graphics software company headquartered in San Mateo, California that produced private and secure MMO virtual worlds for corporate, government, defense, medical and educational clients.

Similar to mirrors, upright images produced by single lenses are virtual while inverted images are real.

They have also produced several " virtual anthologies " of contemporary Romanian artists, writers, and academics.

The GF1 was co-developed by Advanced Gravis and Forte Technologies ( creator of the VFX1 Headgear virtual reality helmet ) and produced by Integrated Circuit Systems under the ICS11614 moniker.

The Kids WB offers both originally produced content along with classic animated episodes, games, and exploration of virtual worlds, all supported by advertising.

Prior to Jacob's removal of the fossils, a CT scan was taken of the skull and a virtual endocast of the skull ( i. e., a computer-generated model of the skull's interior ) of H. floresiensis was produced and analyzed by Dean Falk et al.

The newscast would use a virtual studio at CHEK Victoria and will be produced by Global BC.

For example, in a virtualization product such as Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 or Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008, a whole backup of an environment including several virtual machines can be created in a single operation, and the backups produced for the different VSS compatible guests in the system are transactionally consistent at the guest application level and point in time consistent among the different VMs, without the need for the guests to have backup agents installed.