User:UncleDouggie/Virtual
In media
- Dragon Ball Z Hit Song Collection 10: Virtual Triangle, installment of the Dragon Ball Z Hit Song Collection series
- The Reality of the Virtual, a documentary/lecture film about the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj _i_ek
- The Virtual Community, a 1993 book about virtual communities by Howard Rheingold
- The Virtual EP, an album from Ten Second Epic
- Virtual Control, an album by video game music composer Frank Klepacki
- "Virtual Diva", single by Puerto Rican reggaeton performer Don Omar from his third studio album iDon
- "Virtual Future", an episode of The Outer Limits television show
- "Virtual Insanity", a single by the band Jamiroquai on their 1996 album Travelling Without Moving
- Virtual Light, the first book in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy
- Virtual Murder, an unusual investigative drama series shown on BBC television in 1992
- Virtual State, Richard H. Kirk's first solo album
- Virtual Unrealities, a collection of short stories by science fiction author Alfred Bester
- Virtual XI, the 11th studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden
In Video games
- Connectix Virtual Game Station, an emulator that allows Sony PlayStation games to be played on a desktop computer.
- Virtual Boy, the first portable game console capable of displaying true 3D graphics
- Virtual Console, an online service that allows players to purchase games and other software for Nintendo's Wii gaming console that were originally released on older console models
- International Virtual Aviation Organisation, an Internet-based flight-simulation network
- Virtual economy, an emergent economy existing in a virtual persistent world, usually exchanging virtual goods in the context of an Internet game
content through course management applications, multimedia resources, the Internet, videoconferencing
- Virtual world, a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars
In virtual reality,
- Cave Automatic Virtual Environment, an immersive virtual reality environment where projectors are directed to the walls of a room-sized cube
- HIVE (virtual environment), Huge Immersive Virtual Environment, a research project at Miami University
- Methods of virtual reality
- Virtual reality (philosophy), "that which is not real" but may display the salient qualities of the real
- Virtual reality, a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulatedenvironment
- Virtual body, the state of being when inhabiting a virtual environment that is delivered by means of packet mode communication
In computing,
- Comparison of application virtual machines, lists software virtual machines that implement the concept of application virtualization
- Comparison of platform virtual machines, lists software virtual machines that implement the concept of platform virtualization
- Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network, an enhancement of the virtual private network (VPN) configuration
- Ethernet Virtual Private Line, a data service providing a point-to-point Ethernet connection between a pair of User-Network Interfaces
- Heroine Virtual, a company that creates open source software for the Linux operating system
- Java Virtual Machine, a set of computer software programs and data structures that use a virtual machine model for the execution of other computer programs and scripts
- K virtual machine, a virtual machine developed by Sun Microsystems designed for small devices
- Kernel-based Virtual Machine, Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure
- Linux Virtual Server, an advanced load balancing solution for Linux systems
- Low Level Virtual Machine, a compiler infrastructure that is designed for compile-time, link-time, run-time, and idle-time optimization of programs
- Microsoft Virtual PC, a virtualization program for Microsoft Windows operating systems, and an emulation program for Mac OS X on PowerPC-based systems
- Microsoft Virtual Server, a virtualization solution that facilitates the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems
- VirtualBox, an x86 virtualization software package
- VirtualGL, a program which redirects the 3D rendering commands from Unix and Linux
- Virtual 8086 mode, in the 80386 microprocessor and later, allows the execution of real mode applications that are incapable of running directly inprotected mode
- Virtual Application, an application that has been optimized to run on virtual infrastructure
- Virtual Circuit Identifier. a a 16-bit field in the header of an ATM cell which indicates a particular virtual circuit on a network
- Virtual Circuit Multiplexing, a mechanism for identifying the protocol carried in ATM Adaptation Layer 5 frames
- Virtual console (PC), a conceptual combination of the keyboard and display for a computer user interface
- Virtual Control Program Interface, a conceptual combination of the keyboard and the display for a user interface
- Virtual DOS machine, allows running legacy MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows programs on Intel 80386 or higher computers when there is another operating system running and controlling the hardware
- Virtual IP address, an IP address that is not connected to a specific network interface card on a computer
- Virtual Interface, an abstract representation of a computer network interface
- Virtual Interface Architecture, an abstract model of a user-level zero-copy network used in InfiniBand and iWARP
- Virtual LAN, has the same attributes as a physical LAN, but it allows for end stations to be grouped together even if they are not located on the same network switch
- Virtual Leased Line, a way to provide Ethernet based point to point communication over IP/MPLS networks
- Virtual Machine Interface, a protocol that guest operating systems can use to communicate with the hypervisor of a virtual machine
- Virtual Machine Manager, an application to manage virtual machines
- Virtual Network Computing, a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer
- Virtual Organization (Grid computing), a dynamic set of individual and/or institutions defined around a set of resource-sharing rules and conditions
- Virtual Path Identifier,a field within the header of an Asynchronous Transfer Mode packet
- Virtual Private LAN Service, Ethernet based multipoint to multipoint communication over IP/MPLS networks
- Virtual resource partitioning, allocates computing resources on a transaction basis
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, increases the availability of the default gateway servicing hosts on the same subnet (RFC 3768)
- Virtual Switch Redundancy Protocol, network resiliency protocol combining Layer 2 and Layer 3 resilience
- VTD-XML, Virtual Token Descriptor for eXtensible Markup Language, a set of document-centric XML processing technologies
- Virtual address, an address identifying a virtual (non-physical) entity
- Virtual address space, a memory mapping mechanism in modern computer operating systems
- Virtual appliance, a software image designed to run inside a virtual machine
- Virtual class, an innner class that can be overridden by derived classes of the outer class
- Virtual console (PC), a conceptual combination of the keyboard and display for a computer user interface
- Virtual desktop, ways in which the size of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physical limits of the screen's real estate through the use of software
- Virtual device, files generated by an operating system without reference to hardware that are treated as a real device by applications
- A device driver handling a virtual device, used to emulate a hardware device, particularly in virtualization environments
- Virtual file system, an abstraction layer on top of a more concrete file system
- Virtual function, In object-oriented programming, a virtual function or virtual method is a function or method whose behavior can be overridden within an inheriting class by a function with the same signature
- Virtual inheritance, In the C++ programming language, virtual inheritance is a kind of inheritance that solves some of the problems caused by multiple inheritance (particularly the "diamond problem") by clarifying ambiguity over which ancestor class members to use
- Virtual keyboard, a software and/or hardware component that allows a user to enter characters
- Virtual machine, a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine
- Virtual memory, computer system technique which gives an application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory (an address space), while in fact it may be physically fragmented and may even overflow on to disk storage
- Virtual private network, a computer network in which the links between nodes are formed over logical connections or virtual circuits between hosts of a larger network, such as the Internet
- Virtual private server, a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine
- Virtual method table, A virtual method table, virtual function table, dispatch table, or vtable, is a mechanism used in a programming language to support dynamic dispatch (or run-time method binding)
- Virtual synchrony, an interprocess messaging passing (sometimes called event queue management) technology
eduction
- Emerging Virtual Institutions, patterns of organized culture, such as forms of government, business models, or social norms, that develop endogenously within a virtual world
- Virtual education, instruction in a learning environment where teacher and student are separated by time or space, or both, and the teacher provides course
- Virtual school, an institution that teaches courses entirely or primarily through online methods
- Virtual learning environment, a software system designed to support teaching and learning in an educational setting
- Virtual university, any organization that provides higher education programs through electronic devices such as the computer
- Virtual world language learning, using 3D virtual environments to support language learning
physics
- Virtual black hole, a black hole which has a temporary existence as a result of a quantum fluctuation of spacetime
- Virtual particle, a particle that exists for a limited time and space, introducing uncertainty in their energy and momentum due to theHeisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- Virtual state (physics), a very short-lived, unobservable quantum state or a real, but unstable, state
- Virtual work, the work resulting from either virtual forces acting through a real displacement or real forces acting through a virtual displacement
telecom
- Virtual PBX, a private communications service provider
- Virtual Private Number, a telephone number that forwards incoming calls to any of a number of pre-set telephone numbers
- Virtual Radio, an internet radio player for mobile phones operating on the Symbian operating system
- Virtual channel, In telecommunications: a channel designation which differs from the actual radio channel or frequency on which the signal travels
- Virtual circuit, synonymous with virtual connection and virtual channel, is a connection orientedcommunication service
math
- Virtually, In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra which studies infinite groups, the adverb virtually is used to modify a property so that it need only hold for a large subgroup
- Virtual displacement, is an assumed infinitesimal change of system coordinates occurring while time is held constant
Misc,
- Collaborative Virtual Environments, used for collaboration and interaction of many participants spread over large distances
- National Virtual Observatory, allows scientists to access data from multiple astronomical observatories including ground and space-based facilities through one portal
- Operation Virtual Shield, extensive video surveillance network in Chicago, Illinois linking 3000 surveillance cameras to a centralized monitoring system
- Virtual Acoustic Space, a technique in which sounds presented over headphones appear to originate from any desired direction in space
- Virtual Bidding, a strategy implemented in electricity markets of trading Day-Ahead prices against Real-Time (or Hour-Ahead) prices
- Virtual Case File, a software application for the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation abandoned in 2005 after costing US $100 million
- Virtual Collection of Masterpieces, an international project that displays images of art masterpieces from over 60 museums in Europe and Asia
- Virtual Design and Construction, the use of integrated multi-disciplinary performance models of design-construction projects
- Virtual Library museums pages, a leading directory of online museums around the world
- Virtual Observatory, data archives and software tools in which astronomical research programs can be conducted
- Virtual Orchestra, orchestral simulation, either for pre-recorded or live environments
- Virtual Party Protocol, In cryptography, a secure multi-party computation protocol that uses virtual parties and complex mathematics to hide the identity of the parties
- Virtual Physiological Human, a methodological and technological framework that, once established, will enable collaborative investigation of the human body as a single complex system
- Virtual Product Development, the practice of developing and prototyping products in a completely digital 2D/3D environment
- Virtual Studio Technology, an interface for integrating software audio synthesizer and effect plugins with audio editors and hard-disk recording systems
- Virtual Studios, a motion picture financier founded by Benjamin Waisbren
- Virtual TI, a feature-rich graphing calculator emulator for Microsoft Windows
- Virtual Value Chain, a business model describing the dissemination of value-generating information services throughout an Extended Enterprise
- Virtual actor, the creation of a human being using computer-generated imagery and sound
- Virtual artifact, an immaterial object that exists in the human mind or in a digital environment
- Virtual community, a group of people that primarily interact via communication media such as newsletters,telephone, email, internet social network service or instant messages
- Virtual globe, a 3D software model or representation of the Earth or another world
- Virtual ground, in the theory of electrical networks, a virtual ground (or virtual earth) is a node of the circuit that is maintained at a steady reference potential, without being connected directly to the reference potential
- Virtual image, In optics, a virtual image is an image in which the outgoing rays from a point on the object never actually intersect at a point
- Virtual minefield, The relief organisation Medico International together with concept artist Peter Zizka collaborated under the motto of The Virtual Minefield in order to draw attention to the threat of landmines
- Virtual mixer, a software application that runs on a computer or other digital audio system
- Virtual pitch, a term used to describe the phenomenon in which one's brain interprets tones in music that don't actually exist
- Virtual surgery, a virtual reality simulation of surgical procedures
- Virtual surround, an audio system which attempts to create the perception that there are many more sources of sound than are actually present
- Virtual team, a group of individuals who work across time, space, and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology
- Virtual telecine, a piece of video equipment that can play back data files in real time
- Virtual temperature, the temperature that dry air would have if its pressure and density were equal to those of a sample of moist air
- Virtual tour, a simulation of an existing location, usually composed of a sequence of video images
- Virtual water, the water used in the production of a good or service