This is a landmark day for the virtual world. Intel has essentially made a 12 million dollar investment to make sure that world "looks, acts, and feels" real with the opening of the Intel VCI this morning. According to the reports, we'll be plugging in some of Europe's (and beyond) greatest minds into the Tera-scale research program - making that Holy Grail experience of realistic "human-like" interaction with our virtual counterparts that much closer to reality.More at; http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/05/12/the-intel-visual-computing-institute-opens-in-saarbrucken/