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From the Ted Talk by Stephen Lawler: Tour Microsoft's Virtual Earth
Unscramble the Blue Letters
What I want to talk to you about today is virtual worlds, digital globes, the 3-D Web, the mvterasee. What does this all mean for us? What it means is the Web is going to become an exciting place again. It's going to become suepr exciting as we transform to this highly immersive and interactive world. With graphics, computing power, low latencies, these types of applications and possibilities are going to stream rich data into your levis. So the vriuatl Earth itvatiinie, and other types of these iteiviinats, are all about enxendtig our current search meahoptr.
When you think about it, we're so constrained by broiswng the Web, remembering URLs, saving favorites. As we move to search, we rely on the relevance rankings, the Web matching, the index crawling. But we want to use our brain! We want to navigate, explore, dsecovir information. In order to do that, we have to put you as a user back in the driver's seat. We need cooperation between you and the computing network and the computer.
Open Cloze
What I want to talk to you about today is virtual worlds, digital globes, the 3-D Web, the _________. What does this all mean for us? What it means is the Web is going to become an exciting place again. It's going to become _____ exciting as we transform to this highly immersive and interactive world. With graphics, computing power, low latencies, these types of applications and possibilities are going to stream rich data into your _____. So the _______ Earth __________, and other types of these ___________, are all about _________ our current search ________.
When you think about it, we're so constrained by ________ the Web, remembering URLs, saving favorites. As we move to search, we rely on the relevance rankings, the Web matching, the index crawling. But we want to use our brain! We want to navigate, explore, ________ information. In order to do that, we have to put you as a user back in the driver's seat. We need cooperation between you and the computing network and the computer.
Solution
- lives
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- extending
- browsing
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- metaverse
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Original Text
What I want to talk to you about today is virtual worlds, digital globes, the 3-D Web, the Metaverse. What does this all mean for us? What it means is the Web is going to become an exciting place again. It's going to become super exciting as we transform to this highly immersive and interactive world. With graphics, computing power, low latencies, these types of applications and possibilities are going to stream rich data into your lives. So the Virtual Earth initiative, and other types of these initiatives, are all about extending our current search metaphor.
When you think about it, we're so constrained by browsing the Web, remembering URLs, saving favorites. As we move to search, we rely on the relevance rankings, the Web matching, the index crawling. But we want to use our brain! We want to navigate, explore, discover information. In order to do that, we have to put you as a user back in the driver's seat. We need cooperation between you and the computing network and the computer.
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