Virtual Meetings 虚拟会议

How do you conduct your meetings? Face-to-face, on the phone, by videoconference or maybe even using VOIP/Skype? Well, now there is a new way – virtual meetings, or meetings where participants are represented by computer generated characters.

你是处理开会的?面对面，电话会议还是视频会议，或者是用 VOIP/Skype?现在有种新方式——虚拟会议，也就是用电脑设计得虚拟人物来开会。

Listen to how IBM is using the virtual world of a website called Second Life as the next best thing to in person corporate meetings. After listening to the article, we’ll highlight some of the new vocabulary and provide definitions and further examples.

听听IBM是如何用一个叫做“第二次生命”的网站的虚拟世界来开会的，听完文章后，我们将要强调一些重要的新词汇并提供定义和实例。