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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.

So it is for virtual worlds - a player is a power beyond the scope of the virtual world, and an avatar is the term for the graphical form they adopt within it.

See Also: visage

Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.



Related Dictionary Entries for Avatar:

3D Participation

Angle Overrides

Animation Blending

Animation Set

Animation system

Anisotropic Shading

Anthropometric

Anthropomorphic

ASL

Auditory Localization

Automatonophile

Automatonophilia

Automatonophobia

Avatar

Balance Immersive Interface

Bamf

Binaural Sound

Binaural Sound Synthesis

Bioinspired

Biometric Interface

Biomimetic Locomotion

Body Image

Body Scan

Body Suit

Bone Animation Overrides

Bone Weighting

Botting

Brain in a Vat

Cast Shadow

Chat Bot

Chatbot

Chatterbot

Cognitive AI

Cognitive Artificial Intelligence

Cognitive robot

Cognitive Robotics

Corpse

Crowd Simulation

Cyborg

Daemon

Dual-Boxing

Dynamic Shadow

Dynamics

EEG biofeedback

Egocentric

Emote

Environment

Extended Identity

Eye Guiding

First Person

First Person Perspective

FK

Follow Through

Forward Kinematics

Four-Boxing

Gait Analysis

Gaze-Direction

Hierarchical Model

Hotspot

IK

Inconsistent Kinesthetic Feedback

Individual Bone Constraints

Individual Vertex Bone Weighting

Inverse Kinematics

Kill-spawning

Kinaesthesis Immersion Interface

Kinematic Chain

Kinematic Diagram

Kinematic Motion Estimation

Kinematic Pair

Kinematics

Layered Construction

Limb Kinematics

Link-Dead

LIS

Locked In Syndrome

Mechanoreceptor

Metaverse

MOBA

MoCap

Motion Capture

Motion-Captured Animation

Multi-boxing

Multiboxing

Multimodal Sequence Navigation

Multiplayer Online Battle Arena

MUVE

Net Death

Neuromuscular Incapacitation

Neuroprosthetic

NMI

No Clipping

Open Face

Operant Conditioning

Overlapping Action

Perspective Correction

Phonetic Search

Piezo Phototronics

Pixel Boom Boom

Point Of View

Posturography

POV

Proprioceptive Immersive Interface

Ragdoll physics

Reflection mapping

Rigid Body Dynamics

Rigid Object Animation

Semi-intelligent agent

Shadow Mapping

Shadow People

Simulacra

Simulacrum

Skeletal Animation System

Skeletal Modelling System

Tele-Embodiment

Teleamore

Telepointer

Terramechanics

Tethered Viewpoint

Third Person

Third Person Perspective

Three-Boxing

Toon

Touch Sequence

Two-Boxing

Uncanny Valley

Universe

Virtual Camera

Virtual PA

Virtual Personal Assistant

Virtual Robot Simulation

Visage

Whole Body Simulation

Zooming User Interface

ZUI



 

Resources in our database matching the Term Avatar:

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Book Quotes: Avatar Size
A look at the concept expressed in Virtual Light, and perfectly possible but seldom used, of controlling relative avatar sizes for psychological control.



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Large Image Display: Animatrix: World Record: Exceeding the Avatar
An interesting, fiction-inspired look at how it is technically possible to push a full sensory surround avatar body to limits never conceivable in the human bodies it was designed to replicate.



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Avatar Based Health Records
IBM has been working on a system of medical records using visual avatar inspection to aid doctors in increasingly busy health environments.



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Dark City: Avatar Identity
Using Dark City to explain the phenomenon in modern social VR, why people find it hard to connect to the avatar of another, when many such avatars look identical.



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It is not just your avatar that will be customised to you
This quote from Otherland, Book one, puts a oft-overlooked spin on the concept of customised avatars for sales-AI. A psychologically compatible AI personality and avatar, designed to talk you into buying, crafted not from a detailed psychological work up, but simply from geolocation and information you did not mean to reveal.



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ActiveWorlds: Avatar Movement Restrictions
As one of the major, established social VR platforms on the internet today, ActiveWorlds deserves more than a cursory look at its world system, its strengths and more importantly, its limitations deserve looking at, in detail. This article focusses on the ActiveWorlds Avatar Control System



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Processing an Avatar's Facial Colour
Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology have discovered that the human bain processes the colour of a face separately to the features of that face. This is an interesting development, especially when placed in the context of crafting personalised avatar forms for AI sales agents and other interactive AI in virtual space.



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It's not just how the Avatar Looks, it's how the Avatar Talks that is Remembered
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.



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Lessons from Simone: Avatar Embodiment
Simone is a seminal virtual reality film, and there are several aspects of both the technology of VR and the social impact, which the film carries off very well, and which deserve to stand on their own merits. One of these is of course one part of the driving point of the film; avatar embodiment.



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Gerri Sinclair: Time to embrace your avatar
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.



 

Industry News containing the Term Avatar:

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(05/02/2007)
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...