Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supposed to be a formidable Soviet air-defense system. The Falun Gong gatherings were more than a worry for China's security services; they were also an embarrassment. The police discovered that the protest was planned in large part by e-mail and that Falun Gong had a "virtual" organization, which it claimed linked 39 provincial branches with 1,900 lower-level "guidance stations" and 23,000 practice sites...
...most intense technological competition in the games industry takes place in the genre dubbed the "first-person shooter" -- games like Quake, Unreal, and Duke Nukem in which players run around in 3-dimensional virtual mazes, shooting monsters and occasionally each other. But the competitive atmosphere of the industry is changing, as more and more companies choose to license an existing "game engine" -- the core of the game that generates its 3D virtual world - from another company rather than develop their own. MORE...
...another sequence, several virtual dancers appear to be walking on shorter, angled poles suspended in space just above the live dancers' heads. In the viewer's mind, the poles become a kind of shoreline and the virtual dancers luminous reflections in a lake. "The projections are conditioning you to see different aspects of the choreography, like rhythm, group dynamics and the body," says Eshkar...
Cunningham, 80, whose innovative choreography has been expanding audiences' expectations about dance for more than 50 years, is reticent about connecting the dots. "The only relationship between the virtual and real dancers is the one you make for yourself," he says, comparing the experience of watching Biped to channel surfing. But that may be precisely the point, according to Roger Copeland, author of an upcoming book on the choreographer. Copeland believes that Biped, like much of Cunningham's recent work, is about how to focus your attention in a world full of distractions. "It's a model for a very...
...chore to dash off an e-mail to Granddad. Inexpensive new machines like Cidco's Mailstation ($149 at cidco.com allow anyone who can use a phone to enjoy e-mail. And computer-top video cameras like Logitech's Quickcam ($100 at quickcam.com can turn your desktop into a virtual video telephone...