Virtual globe

Domingas Fernandes Evaluation #3 On Wednesday night March 30th, I opened my Blackboard page and noticed that I had a notification from my Virtual Group. My group members had already started the discussion about what Electronic Meeting System we would be using for the assignment. GoogleDoc, being the most widely used, was suggested and everyone seemed to agree with it. We also shared our phone numbers and decided to use iMessage. On the following day, it seemed that everybody forgot that we…

Industrie 4.0 is a new and very big subject and can be defined as “creating a virtual copy of the whole company with all its structure and processes in the cyber space”. With the integration of different object like machines, products and humans and their ability to communicate with each other opens an endless list of possibility for actively and automatically intervene into the production process. However the author thinks that speaking about a revolution is not quite correct as Industrie 4.0…

As almost any athlete, will tell you, it’s easy to begin a new fitness routine or adopt a new workout technique. The difficult part, however, is actually reaching the goals set and taking your performance to the next level. Sports training is a physically and mentally demanding task that’s filled with countless pitfalls and lots of frustrations. But what if new technology could make the effort easier for athletes? The key might be to make sports training smarter - technologically, smarter that…

Forcing someone into a completely alternative environment with no prior knowledge of the situation is a platform for confusion and sometimes even denial. Plato’s “Allegory of The Cave,” and The Matrix both contain instances of people who have experience with the process of learning entirely new concepts. In the “Allegory of the Cave,” prisoners are exposed to shadows for all of their lives. This lifelong exposure resulted in the belief that the displayed shadows are the actuality. Furthermore,…

events. It projects the feelings of being in the real world with the space coordination like a normal person. VRT helps patients by stimulating sensitivity of an actual proximity of objects surrounding them (Ansuini, Pierno, Lusher & Castiello, 2006). Virtual reality (VR) is a cybernetic situation using advance computer technology enabling a three dimension interaction between patients and environment. The disparity between a confined laboratory environs and an actual state is greatly reduced,…

dedicated space to completing a task. This task could be to manage a website, manage the data on that website, be an authentication server, etc. Client vs. Server A client is a local laptop, desktop, or thin client device running a local virtual environment. A local virtual environment is an environment that is presented over the current operating system that the computer is running. A server is something that is devoted to completing one task. Like stated in the previous paragraph, this task…

Augmentation can take place with different procedures, the main objective is to establish a system whereby a user cannot possibly differentiate between the real world and the virtual representation of the augmentation. In manufacturing, there is an approach called the Computer-integrated Manufacturing process which involves the use of computers to control the production process. This process involves examining and identifying…

Chinese students in Canada? RQ 2: What barriers and opportunities do Chinese international students’ face when accessing health care related information/services by using Weibo in Canada? The Role of “Virtual Community” The data results illustrated that Sina Weibo could be recognized as one “virtual community” for its’ users during their communication…

A Skeptics Inception In Descartes Skepticism he excises the idea of doubt and the never ending allurement to some sort of doubt that is within life. Descartes says that everything you know no matter how probable or improbable it is has doubt. In Descartes meditation one and two he goes over his three main points of doubt. First, he wonders if he may be crazy, secondly if he is dreaming and thirdly if he is being tricked. In the movie Inception we see the main character Cobb in a twisted world…

As of January 2015 there were approximately 3 billion active internet users and 2 billion active social media accounts. The social media websites through which these accounts operate are defined as “member based internet communities which that allow users to post profile information, such as a username or photograph, and to communicate with others in innovative ways such as sending public or private online messages, or sharing photos online” (Pempek, Yermolayeva & Calvert, 2009 p.277). Few…