Virtual Worlds

The War Room
"Inside the fully immersive proving ground where tomorrow's soldiers are being trained by coalition forces of the Pentagon, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley."
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Source: Wired

The Making of an X Box Warrior
"With the military an industry leader in video game design, will virtual boot camp make combat more real or more surreal?"
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Source: CNET News

HK firm develops cyber girlfriend
"For men without a partner, help may be at hand - in the form of a virtual girlfriend. The Hong Kong company Artificial Life, which developed the new game, says the girl will appear as an animated figure on the video screen of a mobile phone."
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Source: BBC News

The screen-age: Our brains in our laptops
"One of the most striking observations in Turkle's findings was a quote from one multi-tasking student who preferred the online world to the face-to-face world. 'Real life,' he said, 'is just one more window.' "
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Source: CNN

My Laptop, My Life
"A reporter feels the wrath of the information age, where everything is just a click away …until it isn’t."
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Source: Columbia Journalism Review

See also:
Virtual Worlds - Google News
Virtual Worlds News - Topix.net
Computer game - Wikipedia
Video game - Wikipedia
Virtual reality - Wikipedia
Virtual Humans Proposed As Space Travelers - Space.com
Living in Virtual Space - Marshall Brain's Blog
Virtual Reality Blog
Terra Nova
Games - Slashdot
Videogame news - Moreover