Bridging between Real and Virtual -- Technologies to Advance ITeS

ITeS is one of the key applications of the Internet. It is a conjugation of technologies to adopt and respond to complexity of services demanded by postmodern society. Bridging between real and virtual has been long discussed agenda of the key element of information technology. Under the environment of Web2.0, the value of these technologies gain more importance as the notion of "real" expands its scope in both "materials" and "human" factors, and integrated to the "virtual. " Likewise they are essential to the advances of ITeS. By looking at three technologies, this paper illustrates how and what future perspectives of ITeS will involve.