It's just a game, or is it? Real money, real income, and real taxes in virtual worlds

Virtual Worlds, Real Rules

Real Mirrors Reflecting Virtual Worlds

This paper introduces the idea of using real mirrors in combination with rear-projection systems for the purpose of interacting with and navigating through the displayed information. Subsequently a derived application is described. For this, we use a hand-held planar mirror and address two fundamental problems of applying head tracking with rear-projection planes: the limited viewing volume of ...

Is It Fake or Real?

In this paper, we describe a new methodology to separate photographs and computer generated images . We introduce the Progressive Randomization (PR) technique that captures the statistical properties of each one of these classes. Using only statistical descriptors of the least significant bit (LSB) occurrences, our method already performs as well or better than some comparable existing techniqu...

Real Currency Economies: Using Real Money in Virtual Words

Continuing improvements in computing power and high-speed Internet access have led to an explosion in the popularity of multi-player online environments. In addition to providing a new form of entertainment, several of these environments have proven useful for educational activities. Specifically, the Second Life environment, which provides a physics and graphics engine for anyone to display 3D...

Motion in Real and Virtual Worlds