Magic Circle (virtual worlds) — Early virtual world: Ultima Online In regard to digital media, the term “magic circle” refers to the membrane that encloses virtual worlds such as first person shooters (FPSs), online social environments, and massively multiplayer online role… … Wikipedia
Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group — (Formerly Neopets, Inc.) Type Subsidiary (Owned by Viacom) Industry Internet … Wikipedia
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Virtual MTV — Virtual MTV, more commonly known as vMTV, is a collection of virtual worlds under the MTV Networks umbrella.vMTV includes seven separate virtual worlds, each based on an MTV television show.*Virtual Laguna Beach… … Wikipedia
Virtual crime — or in game crime refers to a virtual criminal act that takes place in a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), usually an MMORPG. The huge time and effort invested into such games can lead online crime to spill over into real world crime, and… … Wikipedia
virtual world — ˌvirtual ˈworld 8 [virtual world] noun images, sounds and text used by a computer to create a world where people can communicate with each other, play games and pretend to live another life • Players create their character and live a second life… … Useful english dictionary
Virtual finance — is a branch of game design theory which is concerned with monetary aspects of virtual worlds, such as massively parallel multi user games. Like real finance, virtual finance is concerned with issues like inflation, money forgery and… … Wikipedia
Virtual world — A virtual world is an online community that takes the form of a computer based simulated environment through which users can interact with one another and use and create objects.[1] The term has become largely synonymous with interactive 3D… … Wikipedia
Virtual economy — A virtual economy (or sometimes synthetic economy) is an emergent economy existing in a virtual persistent world, usually in the context of an Internet game. People enter these virtual economies recreationally rather than by necessity; however,… … Wikipedia
Virtual community — For other uses, see Community (disambiguation). Sociology … Wikipedia
virtual reality — a realistic simulation of an environment, including three dimensional graphics, by a computer system using interactive software and hardware. [1985 90] * * * Use of computer modeling and simulation to enable a person to interact with an… … Universalium
