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Definition: virtual goods


Images of real things that are purchased to enhance online games and social networks. For example, players can purchase elaborate avatars to represent themselves, or send an image of flowers to someone. Doll sites allow children to purchase fashionable clothes, providing the electronic equivalent of dressing physical toys. Virtual goods are infinite. Users buy land, houses, "virtually" anything in countless virtual reality games. See virtual reality and Second Life.