...What is actually virtual meeting on business? Recent years, advanced technology brought a lot of new opportunities in our life and on our businesses meanwhile these technological improvements get inside our life day by day. Virtual meeting is one of these opportunities which many businesses are using it and many of them will use in the future. Virtual meeting is having a meeting by using internet connection virtually with the other branches or other related companies that you work with. “Virtual meetings will never eradicate the need for traditional face-to-face meetings, but they often provide the least expensive means of bringing people together” (2011, Mittleman). As long as companies remain, people who work within these companies will travel to other countries or cities to have meetings but virtual meeting which is videoconferencing and telepresence will decrease these travels. What are the advantages of the virtual meetings on an organization? Maybe 15 years ago, if we talked about a virtual meeting, it would be so weird but now this is very common way to have a meeting and will be more than now. There are a lot of advantages of the virtual meetings first and important one for a business is saving time. The other important advantage is saving money. These two important things are actually main factors to consider for many businesses anytime. These virtual meetings will reduce your employees to travel for a meeting sometimes these meetings can last 1 week or...
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...Introduction The aim of this paper is to outline norms for Virtual Teams with respect to Communication, Participation and Decision-Making among others. Communication Norms in Virtual Teams-Top 5 • Be considerate of the recipient of your communication with the same degree of respect for them and their limited resources as you would in a face to face set up. Depending on where in the globe a member is, it costs money and time for each member to participate in the virtual set-up. One should desist from using the resources improperly for instance clogging bandwidth with useless data. • There should be guidelines on running the meeting, returning phone calls, replying emails and format to be used among other tools. Each member contributing should introduce themselves before proceeding, the rest should be on mute until their turn to speak • Ensure brevity especially in E-mails which are meant to inform and alert. The subject should be brief and descriptive to allow for easier follow up and ensure faster response by denoting emails that need urgent attention. Be very professional and clear in any written communication to make up for the loss gestures, tonal variation and facial expressions to emphasize your key message. • Abide by the law in terms of the content and avenue of communication. Pay for the software that allows the teams to function and do not break any laws especially regarding e-mail and privacy policies. • Stick to the objectives of the team. Do not use the forum...
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...Virtual Reality Close your eyes and imagine yourself to be on another planet fighting aliens or imagine flying over your favourite city on your personal tour. These situations might never materialise in your real life. But virtual reality provides you with an option to experience the thrill and excitement of something like this happening. While currently only in its infant state, virtual reality could exceedingly alter the future of the human race. Virtual reality can be defined as, “a technology that enables users to enter computer generated worlds and interface with them three dimensionally through sight, sound and touch.” (Nequist, Virtual Reality, 1993). Earlier popular only in video games and entertainment fields, virtual reality has now excelled in many other important fields like medicine, surgery, space programs, military, etc. This technology once properly developed and mastered will do wonders in these fields. Virtual reality helps people in breaking the boundations of their routine life and enters them into a 3-D version of the life they dream about. It is very aptly said “virtual reality is the first step in a grand adventure into the landscape of imagination.” (Biocca, Kim & Levy, Communication in the Age of Virtual Reality). This technology also provides us with interface for trials and errors in hypothetical yet possible in real life situations. For example, the military uses virtual training grounds for training their soldiers, virtual flight simulators...
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...There are many benefits of using virtual memory; the most important part is memory management, Memory management is the process of managing computer memory. The memory management subsystem of the operating system carries out this duty. Because the beginning of calculating, there has always existed the need for more memory than the existing physical memory in the system. Surrounded by many important jobs an operating system does in a computer memory allocation to the processes being implemented is the most important one. Operating systems should have the capability to assign memory when available and clear to make room for data and instructions when the memory is full. The capability to recognize the location of an entire program or a particular location in the physical memory is another responsibility the operating system should be able to accommodate. Operating systems are designed to take benefit of file system conveniences and virtual memory to address the needs of memory management. Data stored in long-term memory is saved as named objects called files, and data and instructions stored in virtual memory is addressed in a logical point of view. Because of the small ability of the virtual memory, only a limited part of a program is kept in virtual memory. The ability to address memory both reasonably and physically enables the operating system to separate processes and run several programs run concomitantly. By using virtual addresses and real addresses, the operating...
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...VIRTUAL REALITY Virtual reality-the very name conjures up fantastic visions of computer technology providing the ultimate out-of-body experience. What is VR? And what can we learn from studying the history of its development and the development of its early and present-day applications? The history of modern VR is the history of the technology that makes it possible-the computer, the head-mounted display, and the data glove. It is also the history of the people and organizations that developed the technology, hardware and software, and applications for that technology. And finally, the history of VR is a history of the social use of VR technology for entertainment, education, military, and commercial purposes. Defining VR Defining VR is an important first step in presenting a brief history of its development. It may also prove to be the most difficult since the combination of the two terms is itself oxymoronic. The phrase "virtual reality" is widely credited to Jaron Lanier who coined it in 1989 to describe the experience made possible by the use of the latest generation of goggles, gloves and related technologies. The role of perception in defining reality raises interesting issues of psychological, sociological, philosophical, and cognitive origins. In this postmodern age the concept of the real continues to have philosophical and practical significance for those who are engaged in the creation of artificial or virtual representations of reality. For some, the dawn of...
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...ER 2007 Conceptual Modeling for Virtual Reality Olga De Troyer, Frederic Kleinermann, Bram Pellens, and Wesley Bille WISE Research Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium {olga.detroyer,frederic.kleinermann,bram.pellens, Wesley.Bille}@vub.ac.be Abstract This paper explores the opportunities and challenges for Conceptual Modeling in the domain of Virtual Reality (VR). VR applications are becoming more feasible due to better and faster hardware, and due to new technology and faster network connections they also start to appear on the Internet. However, the development of such applications is still a specialized, time-consuming and expensive process. By introducing a Conceptual Modeling phase into the development process of VR applications, a number of the obstacles preventing a quick spread of this type of applications can be removed. However, existing Conceptual Modeling techniques are too limited for modeling a VR application in an appropriate way. The paper will show how Conceptual Modeling can be done for VR and how this may make VR more accessible to non VR-specialists. Furthermore, the paper will explain how Conceptual Modeling embedded in a semantic framework can provide the basis for semantically rich VR application, which may be essential for its success in the future and its use in the context of the Semantic Web. The paper will also point to some open research problems.. Keywords: Semantics. Virtual Reality, Conceptual Modeling, that...
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...(Your Name) 8/20/2014 NT1110 Virtual Grids “The internet, is a type one civilization telephone system” stated by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku in his book, The Physics of the Future. The internet is a way of being connected like humanity has never seen before. News is blasted through the web like wildfire; people are informed in a matter of minutes across the global. The web has been taken to a whole new level of instant communication, in virtual worlds. Individuals can now interact without leaving their homes with an avatar of themselves or something completely different as they meet other users. An age of great advancements of communication has come before us in our life-time. Virtual. Worlds provide an experience of simulations of all kinds such as car driving, spaceship maneuvering, submarine navigation, and socializing experiences. In a world of great distances between nations with people of a wide range of diversity, makes it difficult to conversant with various cultures. Some countries do not allow certain news to be aired on public television programs making it challenging to know of the world events. Among certain restrictions, even websites, URL's, and postings cannot be accessed. "The Chinese government issued new rules on Friday requiring Internet users to provide their real names to service providers, while assigning Internet companies greater responsibility to deleting forbidden postings and reporting them to the authorities." ( 2...
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...Virtual Computing: How is it Used? What are the benefits? Virtual Computing: What is it? What are the Benefits? Introduction Partitioning or dividing the resources of a single server into multiple segregated VMs is virtualization. Virtual computing allows organizations to save technical resources and money. There are various virtual computing applications which are useful to organizations. The benefits of virtual computing are achieving faster system speeds, eliminating upfront capital costs, managing corporate desktops in an efficient way and allowing reduction in power costs. Main VMs were originally in use by IBM around 1960 and were intended to leverage investments in pricy mainframe computers. “Virtualization, or technology that allows one physical PC or server to act like many separate computers, is just one of many strains on traditional software licensing. In the old days, things were simple: Each program ran once on a computer that had a single user and a single processor. Now, it is not uncommon for a program or operating system to be running multiple times on the same piece of hardware, which may be powered by multiple processors, or a single chip with multiple processing cores.” (Fried, 2006) With virtual computing allows users remote access to software applications and processes whenever it is needed. Access is gained through the internet, wireless network or network server. Through virtual computing providers, users can download and use more than one...
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...Running head: THE BENEFITS AND USES OF VIRTUAL MEMORY The Use and Benefits of Virtual Memory Jacqueline Askew University of Phoenix Abstract There are many computer users that are not familiar with computers or the way they function. This paper is centered around and will provide a definition of virtual memory. Information will also be provided on the benefits and how virtual memory used. The Use and Benefits of Virtual Memory There are so many facets to computers and how they function. Someone that is a novice user is not aware of how they run. They just turn them on and ready, set go. The more advanced computer user has a better insight to the functionality and maintenance of the computer. Whether it is a laptop or desktop the most common part of an operating system is virtual memory. Based on how much memory a computer has determines how many programs can be run. Virtual memory uses free space found on the hard drive in order to allow other programs to run. This seamless transition is unnoticeable to the human eye. Because the virtual memory frees up space in the Random Access Memory, other applications can load. This is an automatic process, so even with the standard memory virtual memory makes it seems like it has more. One of the benefits of virtual memory is the financial side. There is not a lot of out of pocket expense because it becomes more expensive to purchase RAM chips than hard disk space. The virtual memory will allow a user to run larger...
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...VIRTUAL TEAMS INTRODUCTION PROS OF VIRTUAL TEAMS CONS OF VIRTUAL TEAMS WAYS TO USE VIRTUAL TEAMS IMPORTANCE OF E- LEADERSHIP ROLE OF MANAGER IN VIRTUAL TEAMS COMPANIES THAT USE VIRTUAL TEAMS AND TYPES OF VIRTUAL TEAMS CHALLENGES FACED BY ORGANIZATION IN USING VIRTUAL TEAMS HOW TO OVER COME THESE PROBLEMS CONCLUSION Technology is all around everyone and it is becoming more and more advance every single day. People do not have to rely on talking to individuals face to face and instead people are doing everything over the computers, tablets or even cell phones. As technology is growing companies are going to be primarily using virtual teams. Virtual teams are “whose members are interact primarily throughelectronic communications. Members of a virtual team may be within the same building or across continents.” (Business Dictionary) Companies are all over the world is using them to set up conferences, meetings, and interaction between co-workers. As technology advances we will address types of virtual teams, positives, negatives, challenges that are faced, roles of managers of the teams and how they overcome obstacles. Many people just see virtual teams as a phenomenon and when inactualitythey are bringing together companies closer because they are providing more structure for the organization to stay on a strict schedule and finish projects more rapidly. As long as you have cooperative team and many sources to utilize you will have a successful virtual team that...
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...Psychological effects of heavy usage of Virtual Reality Smith is a fourth grader who is all into video games; his goal is to have the latest video game. He lives in his video games. He goes to school every day physically and but mentally he is in his video game world, where he is the king of the racing cars and he is rich enough to buy the whole city. He always skips his homework because he cannot remember what he learned in school. While teachers are teaching, he is playing with his video games in his head and not paying attention in class. Teachers always contact smith’s parents and even parents seem to be helpless, because according to Smith’s parents, he gets very aggravated if they try to take his video games and Smith really gets violent with his siblings and friends. Smith wants to sit in locked room holding the remote controller in his hands where he can control several different cars in a second. He cannot remember anything what he does throughout the day because in his mind he is always in the second world. One day Smith was sitting in living room plying with his video games, suddenly his mom falls off from stairs and broke her arm. Instead of calling for help, Smith continues with his games and when his dad asks what happened he could not tell him exactly what happened. Smith told his dad, he does not remember if he sees mother falling down because all he could see that he is losing the game and he has to get more cars in the race. After that Smith’...
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...Virtual Teams: A Review of Current Literature and Directions for Future Research1 Anne Powell Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Gabriele Piccoli Cornell University Blake Ives University of Houston Abstract Information technology is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development of new organizational forms. Virtual teams represent one such organizational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness. As the technological infrastructure necessary to support virtual teams is now readily available, further research on the range of issues surrounding virtual teams is required if we are to learn how to manage them effectively. While the findings of team research in the traditional environment may provide useful pointers, the idiosyncratic structural and contextual issues surrounding virtual teams call for specific research attention. This article provides a review of previously published work and reports on the findings from early virtual team research in an effort to take stock of the current state of the art. The review is organized around the input – process – output model and categorizes the literature into issues pertaining to inputs, socio-emotional processes, task processes, and outputs. Building on this review we critically evaluate virtual team research and develop research questions that can guide future inquiry in this fertile are of inquiry. ACM Categories:...
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...TECHNICAL BRIEF 68 A Review of Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality for Manufacturing Industry Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. ME 40, No. 1, June 2009 Transaction of the Mech. Eng. Div., The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh A REVIEW OF HAPTIC FEEDBACK IN VIRTUAL REALITY FOR MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY Faieza Abdul Aziz* Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Maryam Mousavi Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia *Corresponding email: faieza@eng.upm.edu.my Abstract: This paper discusses the application of haptic feedback in Virtual Reality to enhance user performance in manufacturing industry. Haptic interfaces have the potential to enhance communication and interaction via the computer enabling affective expressive interpersonal communication and enriching interaction by haptic feedback. The aim of this study was to investigate and develop a better understanding of using haptic feedback in manufacturing. Keywords: Virtual Reality, haptic, manufacturing INTRODUCTION Virtual reality (VR) is a human-computer interface in which a computer system generates a three dimensional, sensory, immersing environment that responds in an interactive way to the behaviour of the user. VR technology can be very helpful in visualizing complicated 3-D models of parts...
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...Introduction: As global companies are increasing and technology is improving, future leaders and managers need to be prepared to communicate across cultures with their virtual teams. A virtual team is a group of team members that conduct work entirely with the use of technology. To better manage virtual teams, managers need to understand the advantages and limitations of technology, the advantages and limitations of different communication channels, and the strategies to effectively communicate across cultures. Advantages and limitations of technology: Managers as well as their virtual teams need to understand both the advantages and limitations of technology to effectively conduct work. The advantages of technology include being able to communicate around the clock, easily, frequently, and with a cheaper cost. Technology lets team members communicate with each other any-time of the day, regardless of the distance that may exist between them. Furthermore, technology makes the world seem like a smaller place. It can help a manager in America contact her virtual team that maybe anywhere in the world any time she wants. In addition, technology helps relieve the hassle of constant business related travelling; this helps lower the costs tremendously. However, managers and their team members must also know the limitations of technology. Technology can be unreliable and unstable at times. Technology is not the same everywhere in the world. In America, we have wireless internet almost...
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...When it comes to Microsoft and VMware solutions for virtual computing there is several factors that make both different and yet similar at the same time.; however, when it comes to corporate use a lot of the times cost effectiveness is what makes or breaks the decision making as to which virtual computing system to go with. Which in the case of Microsoft and VMware Microsoft is the way to go since VMware’s systems are composed of components that make up their cloud solution; which in order to have an effective system one would need more of the components which would come at as part of a higher tie license which means more expenses. Looking at both from a functional perspective Microsoft and VMware offer private and public virtualization, both offer combined server, storage, networking, applications and operating system support. Microsoft hypervisors claim that management is compatible with VMware however; only to a certain degree and not very effective. It is possible to mix both which would offer the best of both worlds as far as features the only downside would be having to train personnel in both systems to be able to manage both interfaces. Microsoft utilizes windows familiarity when it comes to their systems minimizing the learning curve for staff to be able to operate this interface. Microsoft also allows better management for both physical and virtual environments enhancing the performance and workload. VMware’s Pros include allowing users to obtain more power from...
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