Long Island has none of the mammoth truck stops, the virtual cities that are found elsewhere.

This setting was developed by Microsoft and described as offering "an unprecedented degree of freedom to drive around in a virtual city".

The internet is just a virtual city (where you can share recipes...).

Luckily, Reiji and his friends were able to return back to the virtual city.

But the virtual city is familiar enough to evoke twinges of recognition.

Such views of virtual cities must be scripted and framed just like a movie.

The goal was to build a virtual city in the vein of Simcity.

One of Gehorsam's team members sat in front of a computer to demonstrate how to create a virtual city.

A floating commerce vessel, it was a virtual city in space.

"We believe that this virtual city we are building will be a great stage for human introductions," he said.