Virtual Real Estate

Virtual Real Estatejust what am I talking about here? If I look up virtual in the dictionary, it gives me words like near, practical, fundamental, or essential. It also lists actual as an antonym. Remember in school how we were required to use the new word in a sentence to show that we understood the meaning? So many times we have heard sayings like, Oh, thats a virtual impossibility, Virtual Reality, or She is virtually unstoppable. As you can see in these phases, virtual is being used as an adjective or an adverb. Here we are using it as a descriptive meaning practically, fundamentally, or essentially. The word virtual can also be used as a noun as in this example: virtual focus. Here, the meaning of virtual focus is a point from which rays of light seem to emanate but do not actually do so (such as in the image in a plane mirror.) Now we are going back to another word we learned in grade school, antonym. Antonym mean opposite. The thesaurus tells us that actual is the antonym of virtual. To look at this closer, consider actual real estate compared to virtual real estate. You can go out and see, touch, and feel actual real estate. Virtual real estate requires...