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Virtual Dictionary
Virtual Embodiment Virtual Embodiment is an approach to Artificial Intelligence development which is related to embodiment in that it maintains the only way to create general intelligence like the human intellect is to use programs with 'bodies'. However, unlike embodiment, virtual embodiment maintains a VR form is sufficient ? actors and NPCs able to perceive their environment as real to them. Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.
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Results by page (06/10/2008)
19-21 July 2009 Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, USA The HCI International 2009 jointly with the affiliated Conference, held under one management and one Registration, invite you to San Diego, Ca...
(12/03/2014)
March 15th 2014 - March 22nd 2014 Brides-les-Bains, France The European Winter Conference on Brain Research (EWCBR) has a long and successful history. First organized in 1981 by Stylianos Nicolaïdis together with colle...
(04/06/2009)
21 August 2009 - 21 August 2009 University of Geneva, Switzerland "As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines" Joseph Krutch The Swiss Center for Affective Sci...
(28/08/2006)
A workshop on virtual reality hardware and software will take place from 30 November to 1 December in Stuttgart, Germany. The workshop will present new trends in virtual reality hardware and software, organised around the fol...
(18/05/2004)
It has finally come of age, the virtual car. Slobber over it, rub your hands deep into the uphostery, leave drool smears on the dashboard. Have fun off all sorts with the car before you buy it, after all, its youur virtual Maybach. A cross ...
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