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How do you conduct your meetings? Face-to-face, on the phone, by videoconference or maybe even using VOIP/Skype? Well, now there is a new way virtual meetings, or meetings where participants are represented by computer generated characters. Listen to

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Virtual Reality Goggles May Be Next Must-Have

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Take Away English-Virtual Worlds 虚拟世界

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According to the Daily Mail of October 12, fake facades have been put up in 18 shops in Britain's Redcar street, along with one virtual house。 Shoppers are getting a vision of the future in one town and are walking in a virtual world。 Shops such

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Scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration disagree about the risks from CT scans given during virtual colonoscopies. Doctors who favor the procedure say it is less invasive and more cost effective than a conventional colonoscopy. Those agai

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