The term VRML was coined by Dave Raggett in a paper called “ Extending WWW to support Platform Independent Virtual Reality ” submitted to the First World Wide Web Conference in 1994, and first discussed at the WWW94 VRML BOF established by Tim Berners-Lee, where Mark Pesce presented the Labyrinth demo he developed with Tony Parisi and Peter Kennard.

A simple and clear definition is offered by Constance Elise Porter of Notre Dame in a paper entitled " A Typology of Virtual Communities: A Multi-Disciplinary Foundation for Future Research ": " a virtual community is defined as an aggregation of individuals or business partners who interact around a shared interest, where the interaction is at least partially supported and / or mediated by technology and guided by some protocols or norms.

In 2003, Ruben van Wendel de Joode, Hans de Bruijn, and Michel van Eeten published a paper entitled Protecting the Virtual Commons: Self-organizing Open Source Communities and Innovative Intellectual Property Regimes.

The paper was then published as a book titled Protecting the Virtual Commons: Self-Organizing Open Source and Free Software Communities and Innovative Intellectual Property Regimes.

One of the earliest publicly described pub / sub systems was the " news " subsystem of the Isis Toolkit, described at the 1987 Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ) Symposium on Operating Systems Principles conference ( SOSP ' 87 ), in a paper " Exploiting Virtual Synchrony in Distributed Systems.

His paper on Norrath, a fictional planet in the EverQuest universe, Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier ( 2001 ) is available on SSRN.

Some Virtual Schools in the United States may also provide students with the following materials free of charge: Textbooks, Study Guides, Course Guides, Art Supplies ( markers, crayons, construction paper, etc.

* James E. Smith, Ravi Nair, Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms For Systems And Processes, Morgan Kaufmann, May 2005, ISBN 1-55860-910-5, 656 pages ( covers both process and system virtual machines )

* The faculty has a heritage of supporting laboratory skills training with its Virtual Analytical Laboratory ( VAL ), a freely available laboratory skills resource with over 200 pages of multimedia resources which now attracts over 10, 000 visitors a year.

Its native format is the DGN format, though it can also read and write a variety of standard CAD formats including DWG and DXF and produce media output in such forms as rendered images ( JPEG and BMP ), animations ( AVI ), 3D web pages in Virtual Reality Modeling Language ( VRML ), and Adobe Systems PDF.

* ikitos. com-La Comunidad Virtual de Iquitos, Perú Service and information website for and about Iquitos, with extensive tourism pages ( Spanish and English )

Distinct from a mobile browser is a web-based emulator, which uses a " Virtual Handset " to display WAP pages on a computer screen, implemented either in Java or as an HTML transcoder.

* The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball ; Ivan R. Dee, 256 pages ( 2002 ).

* The Chester Virtual Stroll Cathedral pages

* Designing Virtual Worlds, Paperback, 768 pages, New Riders Pub., 25 July 2003 ISBN 978-0-13-101816-7

* Virtual Library museums pages, the VL entry on museums

* Virtual Vietnam Archive ( more than 2 million pages of online historical materials )

In 1994, he founded the Virtual Library museums pages ( VLmp ), an online museums directory that was soon adopted by the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ).

* The B-Method in the Virtual Library formal methods pages

The Virtual Library museums pages ( VLmp ) form a leading directory of online museums around the world.

* Virtual Library museums pages

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See also the Virtual Library museums pages ( VLmp ) for another online museums directory organized by country, established in 1994.

It is supported by Museophile and also forms part of the Virtual Library museums pages, subsequently hosted at the University of Reading and London South Bank University, mirrored around the world.

* Virtual Library museums pages

* Virtual Library museums pages

On March 2, 2011, Nintendo announced that their 3DS Virtual Console service on the Nintendo eShop will feature games from Game Gear, which launched a year later on March 15, 2012.

In addition, Mychilo S. Cline, in his book Power, Madness, and Immortality: The Future of Virtual Reality, argues that virtual reality will lead to a number of important changes in human life and activity.

* Virtual reality will be integrated into daily life and activity, and will be used in various human ways.

On July 28, 2011, Nintendo announced that Mario Kart: Super Circuit, as well as nine other Game Boy Advance games, will be available to limited Nintendo 3DS owners, via Virtual Console, to whom will participate in the Ambassador Program after Nintendo officially issued a price-cut to the Nintendo 3DS starting August 12, 2011.

They also will require authorization for any type of Virtual Private Network ( VPN ) technology ( for example ; PPTP, L2TP, GRE Tunneling, OpenVPN, and most other protocols that allow you protect your information ).

The input VC ( Virtual Channel ) at each side of each node ( call them N, S, E, W ) will hold flit buffers and, in this case, will specify whether this input virtual channel is waiting, idle, or active.

In February 2007, Nintendo of Japan announced that MSX games will be available for the Wii's Virtual Console emulator.

The game has been announced for the Wii's Japanese Virtual Console service for a Spring 2011 release, and will be the first Virtual Console title to feature WiFi support, allowing players to play each other online.

On July 28, 2011, Nintendo announced that Metroid Fusion would be part of a pack of ten Game Boy Advance games that will be available to limited Nintendo 3DS owners, via the Virtual Console service.

One of Memorial's main projects at the moment is the creation of the Virtual Gulag Museum, which will bring together research and archives from all over the ex-Soviet Union to commemorate and record the existence of the Gulag and the suffering of its victims.

The Virtual Test Zone gallery itself is a prototype exhibit area that will consistently feature virtual-to-real-world exhibits on specific themes resulting from The Tech Virtual programs.

The Virtual Wall accessories project infrared light beams which the Roomba will not cross.

* Virtual Wall Lighthouse — Functionality of Virtual Wall with an additional " Lighthouse " mode, which will contain Roomba in one room until the room is completely vacuumed before moving on to the next.

Nintendo provides a service on their 7th generation console, the Wii, that allows players to purchase old games from various systems, such as the NES, which will download a ROM image and emulator upon purchase ( see Virtual Console ).

On August 1, 2011, Nintendo announced that Kirby & the Amazing Mirror will be available to limited Nintendo 3DS owners via Virtual Console, along with nine other Game Boy Advance games that were announced and was released on December 16, 2011 ( GMT ), to join the upcoming Nintendo 3DS price-cut and the Ambassador program starting August 11, 2011.

Virtual particles corresponding to internal propagators in a Feynman diagram are in general allowed to be off shell, but the amplitude for the process will diminish depending on how far off shell they are ; the propagator typically has singularities on the mass shell.

This will terminate the currently running Java Virtual Machine.

As of 2010, two upcoming evolutions of major existing engines have been released: id Tech 5 ( which was used with Rage and will be used for Doom 4, and makes use of the new Virtual Texturing technology ), and the CryEngine 3, which powers Crysis 2.