Word: virtual
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...senior thesis that retold the Faust legend as what he calls “a multimedia production that fully integrated video and live performance.” The project, entitled “Username: Faust,” heavily utilized YouTube and other Internet components to convey a virtual reality world that replaced the spiritual realm of the original Faust myth. Miller praises his adviser, VES Professor Alfred Guzetti, for being open to the use of new media. “[Professor Guzetti] was really interested in learning it and sort of exploring it alongside me,” Miller...
...doomed. No matter what we do, something is going to get us eventually--a comet already whizzing toward Earth, maybe, or exploding methane gas unleashed by global warming. De Villiers takes a virtual flight around the globe to examine the natural threats to our existence, from earthquakes to tornadoes to plagues. It's a mix of sobering facts enlivened by historical anecdotes. Take, for example, the Portuguese king who became morbidly afraid of buildings after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake or the poisonous red ants which descended on a Caribbean town during a 1902 volcanic eruption. More worrisome is the realization...
That's the name--ripped from the headlines!--of the virtual band I formed with three other TIME staffers, whom I will not name because, unlike me, some of them are still hoping for a career in management. We spent a hard day's night pitting Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour against each other in a titanic battle of the fake-band video games. We came to play, and we brought a lot of beer and some tequila, if it came to that. Fortunately, it didn't come to that. (See the video...
...site from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. to talk to people, and answer questions about recycling. Passerbys were pleasantly surprised by how small the trash pile was, including University President Drew G. Faust, who commented to a volunteer that she thought it would be bigger. REPs also conducted a virtual waste audit that mimicked the annual audit of Harvard’s trash that happened earlier that week. In the waste audit, REPs went through a sample selection of Harvard’s trash, assessing its makeup and recovering recycled materials. The most “surprising” result...
...Yellin and musician will.i.am. The wonky, Star Wars-themed image was a cheap stunt, and it existed only in the camera, not in the studio. But true holograms are commercially viable, as are a host of other emerging optical technologies, such as 3D optical data storage, LED lamps, and virtual retinal display, which is like projecting images directly onto the retina...