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Poptropica.com - Play Poptropica Online | Poptropica, Educational Virtual World for KidsPoptropica is a quite new massively multiplayer online game/virtual world in which children ages 6 to 15 can travel, play games, compete in head-to-head competition, communicate safely with each other, and complete their “island mission” and get rewards. The game features 10 unique i... |
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Is Augmented Reality Just the Beginning of the 3-D Revolution?Augmented reality — a group of technologies that marry the virtual world with the real one — has been around for decades, and has traditionally required the use of expensive and specialized equipment. But the proliferation of smartphones that have cameras, displays, and even GPS and other sensor ... |
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Voice chat app Vivox comes to FacebookA voice chat application launched on Monday in open beta enables Facebook users to place and receive calls within the social network. Vivox Voice in action.(Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) Vivox, which also provides voice services for online virtual words and accommodates more than 1 ... |
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Linden Lab Gets Legal With Helpful Resource On Using Second Life For EducationChalk up another victory for trademark bullying. Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, apparently just got around to registering certain Second Life trademarks, but wasted no time using them to shove around at least one site that was only helping to get more people to use Second Life. Game Po... |
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HD Sunglasses Use The Power Of Gullibility To Increase Real World Resolution [Inventions]Did you know your eyes have probably been viewing things in only 480 vertical lines of resolution? Thankfully someone out there isn't as stupid as the rest of us, and realized that if our television sets can be upgraded to HD, so can our eyeballs. At least they can with the help of these special sun ... |
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Linden Lab Sued Over Copied Virtual GoodsWay back in 2003, when Linden Lab announced that individuals owned the real world copyright on virtual trinkets they made in the game, we noted that this was a bad idea that would lead to problems. It was, in effect, taking bad real world laws and bringing them into a virtual world. It was even wo ... |


