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VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY - AN OVERVIEW
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This 4-page paper examines the video game console industry, its major players and its strategies (both development and marketing).
Filename: MTgameindu.rtf

Video Games and Social Responsibility
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In three pages this paper discusses the continued controversy surrounding the violent content of video games and considers whether or not video game designers have a social responsibility to eliminate the gratuitous violence and abuse of women that are prevalent in video games, an entertainment market that consists predominantly of children. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
Filename: TGvidgames.rtf

Video On Demand
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A 9 page discussion of video on demand. Addresses how television will be changed to support the emerging technology and considerations such as narrowcasting, new applications which will be implemented, and the incorporation into on-line systems. Emphasizes existing use in education. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Vdemand.doc

Video, Audio and Text Compression;
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This 10 page paper looks at the different methods of compression for various types of files. Concentrating on the different MPEG formats for audio and video, their operation and used are considered and security issues are discussed. Text compression is considered in the same way, with an examination of how the compression works, the problems and security issues. The MLA style bibliography cites 8 sources.
Filename: TEdatacp.wps

Virtual Beauty
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A 10 page paper discussing ways that a beauty salon can take advantage of web-based services. Salons that do have an Internet presence may well use their websites only as electronic brochures urging customers or potential customers to call the business to speak to a "real person" or to come to the physical location for the same reason. The purpose here is to develop an appropriate and workable approach to e-commerce that can be used by a local beauty shop or salon. Some of the customer uses discussed include making appointments, trying the "virtual stylist," asking advice, buying beauty products and other uses that can expand the salon's bottom line. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KSecomBeauty.rtf

Virtual Communities
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This 17 page paper considers what is meant by virtual communities and how they compare to real or physical communities. The paper looks at how they emerge and the social order that is seen within these communities along with the advantages and disadvantages. IRC (Internet relay chat) is then considered as an example of how communities are formed and the impact they have on those who take part. The bibliography cites 20 sources.
Filename: TEvircom.rtf

Virtual Communities -- A Threat to Real Community
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This 10 page report discusses the existence and proliferation of virtual communities and whether or not they truly exist as the new and future form of community building and human interaction. The most fundamental concepts of community has been long recognized as having a central place in the social fabric of human life. Therefore, the question presents itself as to whether or not virtual communities serve or damage the larger human community. This writer examines the issue from the view that virtual communities are ultimately detrimental and serve purposes that have little to do with true community building. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: BWvircom.wps

Virtual Private Networks
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6 pages in length. The vastness of today's virtual commerce represents myriad benefits to merchants, manufacturers and consumers like never before; that such a tremendous reach stretches across the entire globe speaks to the need for augmented security measures to ensure "fast, secure and reliable communications wherever their offices are" (Tyson, 2005), which has resulted in virtual private networks (VPN). Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TLC_VPN.rtf

Virtual Reality In Education
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This 15 page paper discusses the use of virtual reality in schools. Following an introduction that includes comments about virtual reality and the two basic ways humans have to learn, the writer reports opinions on the benefits of virtual reality as well as how it has been used in some schools. A summer pilot program in an elementary and high school using the headsets and gloves is reported with the types of subjects virtual reality was used for. Two other programs using 3D virtual reality are explained. A case study using a Web-based virtual reality application for college students is described with the outcomes. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: PGVRed.rtf

Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
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A 5 page paper discussing VRML, what it is, how it works and what the future of it is. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Vrmlang.doc