virtual world

collocation in English

meaningsofvirtualandworld

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virtual
adjective
uk
/ˈvɜː.tʃu.əl/
us
/ˈvɝː.tʃu.əl/
almost a particular thing ...
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world
noun
uk
/wɜːld/
us
/wɝːld/
the earth and all the people, places, and things ...
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(Definition ofvirtualandworldfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvirtual world

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Thevirtualworldis projected onto a video display terminal.
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They adapt to avirtualworld, and grow in complexity.
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In this context one usually has to generate avirtualworldwhere the user can act.
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However, with the development of avirtualworld, this may change again.
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They present avirtualworldfor the training of army members on peace-keeping missions.
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In a virtual reality system, the user is completely immersed in avirtualworld.
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Several primitives have been implemented that enable the system to get information on thevirtualworld.
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This paper calls into question notions of what it means to be a competent communicator in thevirtualworld.
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The focus of manyvirtualworlddesign platforms has been on the visual and interactive aspects of the world.
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Thevirtualworldand the material world cannot be designed any more in isolation from each other.
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Thevirtualworldand its ideas is one that has become increasingly discussed in the last few years.
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In addition, use of an agent model provides a standard interface with thevirtualworldvia sensors and effectors.
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In thevirtualworld, how is that done?
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Avirtualworldenvironment based on an underlying objectoriented representation of the design specifically supports synchronous collaboration for multiple disciplines in the design of buildings.
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In contrast, avirtualworldapproach has more potential in providing a flexible approach for modeling and communication that is not discipline specific.
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If the medium itself changes the ways in which communication takes place, what does it mean to be a competent communicator in avirtualworld?
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In addition, the user must protect them - and teach them to protect themselves - from grendels, predatory creatures also present in thevirtualworld.
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A typical distributed application is a multiuser game or learning environment where users on multiple machines interact with each other in a commonvirtualworld.
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People have been thinking about the issue of the relationship between the electronicvirtualworldand the physical world for quite some time.
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The effort required to implement these simple behaviors over wide areas of avirtualworldis high, as each object must be scripted individually.
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Everything is potentially active and mobile in thevirtualworld, so nouns accustomed to sit statically, doing little except describe states, must become 'activatable'.
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This paper describes how artificial agent technologies can be used to extend the behavioral complexity ofvirtualworldplatforms to provide the functionality required to support multidisciplinary design.
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The primary contributions of this research are the definition and implementation of different roles of agents in multidisciplinary design as an extension ofvirtualworldplatforms.
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The first step to build a simulator is to establish a database containing the geometrical and inertial parameters of the bodies that appear in thevirtualworld.
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The rule of law must also apply in thevirtualworld.
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