Does Virtual Reality Need a Sheriff?
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Earlier this year, one animated character in Second Life, a popular online fantasy world, allegedly raped another character.
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Virtual communities threatened with real laws A UK government minister made a virtual pledge to police virtual worlds this week, as the problems of the real world are increasingly reflected in the likes of Second Life.â¦
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'All your Lindens are belong to us' More than two months after security researchers released exploit code that steals money from Second Life users, residents of the virtual world remain vulnerable to similar hacks, the researchers say.â¦
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Tycho:  There's a new Alternate Reality Game spinning up for Halo 3, God Damn them - God Damn them to hell.  I know perfectly well that I am being subjugated by a sophisticated marketing effort, that the best one can accomplish in these games is to get a real good look at the teeth before the mouth closes around you.  I type this even as the rabbit holes stand open in two other windows.  I don't presume to speak for the entire species, but there is something about secrets that does bit the mind.
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Blog: Virtual worlds, or the 3D Internet, appeal to early adopters of games. Getting more people to come will require more applications, said experts.
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Second Life, a Web site that lets subscribers create a virtual character to interact in a fictional online environment, has run into a real world problem after hackers compromised the service's database. Personal data including names, addresses and payment information were leaked.
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Tycho:  The last time we saw Force Unleashed, and this would have been quite awhile ago, it was essentially a tech demo for the new development methodology at Lucasarts - one that would rely heavily on procedural systems.  Using Havok for physics, Euphoria to give their A.I. an awareness of those physics, and Digital Molecular Matter to simulate world materials, I think the idea was that they could create spaces where players could do whatever they felt like doing, and the world would oblige them in a way that was consistent and convincing.
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The future is here, and it has a visor After thousands of sci-fi movies have already exploited the idea, the possibility of immersive 3D films and gaming is finally upon us in the real world. Manufacturer Headplay claims to have created the worldâs first portable cinema capable of rendering both 2D and 3D content through a head-mounted visor.â¦
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God games in which  players must control virtual people could be educational, says research.
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The virtual world is just swarming with lawsuits waiting to happen. Here are a few of the cases you can anticipate.
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Just over a year ago, Joe Barlow, a paramedic in Illinois, spent a week testing a computer game called Incident Commander, a training simulator that gives players a lead role in managing crisis situations such as terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov 30 (Reuters Life!) - Think a job in the  video game business will involve shooting monsters and taking  on virtual missions all day, every day? Think again.
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Hobbyist hackers use Nintendo's motion-sensing controller to play Half-Life 2 and bang virtual drums. What's next? By Chris Kohler.
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Gabe: You might have seen this story on CNN about the teens that murdered a homeless guy and then equated it to the sort of thrill one might get from a violent video game. There will be plenty of articles focusing on these kids and their crime. I"d like to take a second and talk about the parents of these teenagers instead. It is the job of a parent to teach their children certain rules. Obviously the rules themselves and the emphasis each family places on them will vary, but there are certain universal constants that these parents obviously failed to pass on.
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With officers like these on the beat, we might feel safe. But they're not targeting the dangerous criminals now terrorising our streets. The simulated shoot-out was part of training to deal with biological or chemical terrorist threats.  (c) 2006 Daily Mirror.
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Police say they plan to post pictures of missing toddler Madeleine McCann in the Second Life virtual world.
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Surgeons may soon be able to practise tricky operations using a virtual scalpel on a virtual body.