Exploring a wide range of virtual reality technologies, from a tour of a virtual art gallery to the head-up displays used by military pilots, Michael Heim suggests a harmony of technology with lifestyle.
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However, these Virtual Assistants normally work for small scale organizations and consultancy groups. A worldwide survey has revealed that there are about thirty five thousand virtual assistants serving various small scale companies. Even the consultancy groups hire them for their services.

Especially in the centralized economies virtual assistants are being hired often due to the short span of job. In these kinds of firms, assistants are hired for a small span of time where they are laid off after the completion of a project. This practice is often known as the FIFO method of staffing.

Normally the data transfer between the firms and the virtual assistants take place through e mail, telephonic conferences and fax machines. Sometimes it also takes place through instant messages sent online. The virtual assistants are hired on the basis of contracts for a stipulated time period. However, most of these relationships transform themselves into long lasting ones fetching more work for the virtual assistants. If you wish to work as a virtual assistant then you must have at least five years of experience at an administrative post in the previous office.

Normally they work as executive assistant, secretary, legal assistant, manager or supervisor, paralegal, real estate assistant and legal secretary.

However, one must remember that he/she is not an employee of the company that has hired its services. He is considered to be an independent business contract owner. They come under the purview of tax paying workers. In fact, they pay their own self employment taxes to the government. They decide on the terms and conditions on which they will work and also the payment pertaining to their service. Hiring them are profitable for the company since they do not come under the direct payroll of the company. Hence, they are only paid when they work for the firm based on the volume of work they have done. In fact, they are capable of expanding the small scale companies by generating more sales.

Since the VA is not a direct employee of the company, the company does not have to bear the expenses like training the employee, casual leaves, paid time off, sick leave, retirement plans and insurance of the employee. Hence, the burden on the house is much less. If you can free yourself from the little office chores then you will be able to attend more and more trade shows and establish contacts with other firms. They happen to be the obvious choice for replacing a full time secretary when he or she is on leave. Hence, working with a them has many advantages.

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(April 29, 2011) Jeremy Bailenson shares his research on virtual reality, avatars, transformed social interaction, and related communication and psychological theories, as well as implications for citizens living in the digital age. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford Center for Professional Development: scpd.stanford.edu Human-Computer Interaction Seminar: cs547.stanford.edu Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab vhil.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube www.youtube.com
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This is not virtual reality which is 100% simulated environment and characters. But it's close and more useful in the real world. If you've watched any of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator movies where they show what the terminator sees from his perspective (displaying data while looking at a person or object) that's the general idea of what AR is.

As you look at a building or object through a sensitized pair of goggles, you get real time information related to what you are looking at. It could be a street or a landmark and your goggle displays information about it and your location using GPS navigation. Or you could look at an artifact in a museum and get information readout on your goggles.

Changing the Way We Look at Things and People

AR straddles somewhere between the immersive computer-generated graphics that have high realism on one end of the spectrum and the real world at the other end. Superimposing graphics, images and information as needed over real images we see through cameras constitutes Augmented Reality. Just like Virtual Reality, you need a pair of Goggles or heads-up display screens in a helmet that are transparent enough for you to see normally through them.

But the glass surface is actually an LCD screen that can display information depending on what you are looking at. You could be looking at a person and your goggle shows you some information about the person taken from a social networking site or remote database. CIA and FBI operatives would love this. You could look at a landmark and you get information about it and your exact location from GPS data. Tourists would be delighted with this. You could look at a car and the goggle display technical data about it. Car aficionados and prospective buyers would like that as well.

Games and More Games

Video games have been with us for almost 40 years now and they've grown to be sophisticated right down to your portable mobile gaming handsets and mobile phones. There are already games using AR technology in mobile phones with even the most rudimentary imaging system or camera. Set the camera against a table and you see characters walking or battling it out on the table from your screen. Some use printed surfaces in books which the AR application on your handset can detect and display images accordingly. This gaming technique saves the application some computing time to render 2D polygons for backgrounds and thus minimize file sizes.

Military Application

The military already has projects in AR. The concept is about providing troops with instant information about their target surroundings in real time. This includes displaying on their goggles exact enemy locations that would otherwise be hidden from view without it. It can show egress points when entering structures, something like an X-ray vision or night vision. AR can assist them to skirt through mines and booby trapped locations.

What is Needed

Goggles that display the information superimposed on what you see through them as well as mobile phone screens set in camera mode are prerequisites to the AR technology. The intelligence could be in the mobile phone or a belt-strapped device that can communicate with remote databases through WiFi. The goggles can eventually evolve into simple eyeglasses. AR is still in its infancy but the promise is there alright. GP

Course Curriculum
It is important that the college practices the latest course curriculum. If it is a professional course like management etc then the curriculum should involve the latest trends in the concerned course too. It is also important that the college finishes its course well in time and it is in compliance with the mentioned time frame.

Quality of Staffs
Teaching staffs are the backbones of any educational institution. You should try to see the knowledge and experience of the teaching staffs of a particular college.

You can look to the degrees of the concerned professors and the number of research papers they have produced in their teaching career. It is only a well qualified teacher who can impart quality education that will be helping you immensely in your professional career.

Industry Interaction
Generally, professional colleges have a good relation with industry and they can effectively arrange for internship in different business verticals. The college should regularly organize seminars and symposiums thus bringing the industry experts to deliver their experience and share their thoughts.

Infrastructure
It is also quite important that the college should have a rich library, state of the art labs for giving high-tech computer education and modern classrooms. If the college offers residential program then living conditions also matters because you will be spending significant times in hostel. You can judge the infrastructure by taking campus virtual tour. These virtual tours are very easy, less time-taking and can be undertaken irrespective of the place. You can opt for the college campus visit by simply logging on to the respective website. There are many colleges that upload attractive videos of virtual tours on several video sharing and college information sites.

Before you seek admission, you should gain comprehensive information of the college. Try to spend some time researching on the college from diverse sources. Seek suggestions from those who are already studying in the particular college or from the persons who have passed out from the same college. This can be ideal source of genuine information.
 

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