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Knowledge@Wharton
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In Norrath, Tattoine and Rubi-ka, Just What Are Your Legal Rights? Even though virtual worlds are nothing more than code residing in banks of computers, what goes on in them poses challenges to our notions about the nature of property, the legal rights of players in virtual worlds and even the presumed boundary between the real and the imagined worlds. |
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Just Ahead: The Web As A Virtual World Imagine being able to have a digital replica of yourself stroll from one site to another. |
BusinessWeek
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The Online Universe: An Old Fogey's Guide Here's a primer on the strange new world of online gaming. |
Information Today
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BusinessWeek
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BusinessWeek
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Traveling the Web's Third Dimension My avatar, my self: Second Life shows us the future of the 3D Web. |
BusinessWeek
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Who's Got Game Now? With its next Xbox, Microsoft is out to grab more share from Sony and Nintendo. All this one-upmanship is going to prove mighty entertaining for gamers. |
InternetNews
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Hey IT, Welcome to the Bverse IBM and Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, announced an initiative to create open standards and interoperability allowing people to move their avatars and virtual goods from one world to another. |
The Motley Fool
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Microsoft, Marvel Got Game Everybody wants to be a hero -- Microsoft and Marvel are banking on it with an online game deal for Xbox 360. What will it mean to investors? |
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IEEE Spectrum
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When the Game Is You Anyone who's played the Nintendo Wii knows how much fun it is to be in the game. |
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The Motley Fool
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Prepare for the Virtualetes Wii-like gaming consoles and virtual reality technologies are only going to improve with time. Virtual-reality video gaming will be a huge business. |
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