To make the virtual landscape authentic, the simulation features photographs and objects provided by the Smithsonian Institution, another partner in the project.

We're creating this virtual landscape where people with different points of view can talk to each other.

These virtual landscapes display the directions to guide you to your destination, but some GPS systems can do a whole lot more.

She was making weather over a large stretch of virtual landscape, moving clouds, adjusting wind velocity.

Graves continued walking across the virtual landscape.

For example, video triggers at key points in the virtual landscape remind a participant that the computer-generated environment is grounded in a real news story.

First, participants were assigned two of the three virtual landscapes and tasked with the role of a taxi driver.

The HighCycle was an exercise bike that a user would pedal through a virtual landscape.

Version 2.0 will offer virtual landscapes of a white-collar prison so you can see where you can expect to spend the next 18 months.

Physically, the virtual landscape of TechnoSphere consisted of 16 km2 of terrain.