| 单词 | virtual pet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvirtual pet virtual pet n. an electronically simulated animal with which human interaction is possible; spec. a hand-held toy with a small screen displaying the animated image of a pet which can be cared for and responded to (by pushing buttons) as if it were a real pet; cf. Tamagotchi n. ΚΠ 1992 Austral. Financial Rev. 27 Apr. 14/2 Further into the future, the more esoteric possibilities include virtual reality products—computer-generated artificial worlds—such as virtual-pets or even virtual-friends that could talk and have limited powers of human-like interaction. 1993 Sunday Times 25 Apr. (Business Computing Mag.) 8/3 The team is creating the world's first ‘virtual pets’, the Charlottes... Although the project is in its infancy the team has already managed to create a computer-screen world where these creatures live. 1997 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 1 Dec. 13 c Hand-held virtual pets come in many shapes and abilities. 2001 Contact May 73/3 Virtual pets, or tamagotchis as the Japanese christened them a few years ago, are back in mobile form. < as lemmas |
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