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Avatar Traditionally, the term Avatar means a representation of a powerful being who exists above, or beyond the scope of the world. Deities and Demons are usually represented by avatars in accountings. Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.
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Results by page [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When it comes to creating NPCs with a specific task in mind: salespeople in VR-based shops for example, or official company representative AIs able to address potential clients and address questions about the products, then how they interact with the customer is important. However, their visual appearance is not the only critical element. How they utilise emotion matters perhaps more than any other aspect. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gerri Sinclair is a very busy futurist. She has created companies, sold them on to Fortune 500s, been a US government advisor, and taught new media. This article is basically an interview with her on her thoughts of the future of the metaverse and avatar-based life - the subject she continually founds successful ventures on.
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On Saturday February 3rd, the British stand up comic Jimmy Carr performed at a gig in London. At the same time, his every word and movement was duplicated by a monitoring bot, controlling a Second Life Avatar. Unfortunately, ...
(21/12/2009)
There's little doubt that James Cameron's much-hyped Avatar will be a hit during its theater run, but what impact willavatar movie the sci-fi epic have on 3D entertainment in the home? "Avatar," which cost north of $300 m...
(28/09/2007)
Given doctors? general ill-at-ease feeling with modern computer systems, IBM scientists have created software that allows them to use an avatar to obtain medical data. Called the Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine, ASME allo...
(31/07/2013)
Researchers from the Center for Neuroprosthetics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland, show that people can be "tricked" into feeling that an image of a human figure -- an "avatar" -- is their own body. The s...
(16/05/2010)
South Korea's Samsung Electronics and "Avatar" director James Cameron on Friday announced a deal to work together to boost 3D television content. Under the agreement, Cameron and his crew will make 3D footage of music vide...
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