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Title: 2 worlds forge new reality - Stevenson Swanson, Chicago Tribune Post by: Mark David on May 01, 2007, 10:25:34 AM Cyberspace is no longer just a flat screen now that 3-D realms are popping up for companies and consumers to plant their flags -- from virtual training to virtual communities to virtual personalities. From being a flat presence on a computer screen, the Web is rapidly morphing into a three-dimensional virtual world.Powered by such popular social-networking sites as Second Life and There.com., where users represent themselves with animated figures called avatars, virtual technology is finding a host of new applications that are likely to prove as revolutionary as the rapid rise of the Internet a decade ago.
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