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.

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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.

Embodiment: We React to Exposed Teeth Faster than Other Emotional Displays
Researchers from Germany have discovered strong evidence that with humans, picking faces out of a crowd has a lot less to do with the shape of the face, or the expression upon that face, and a lot more to do with whether the teeth are visible or not.

Adding Arms to Autonomous Aircraft
A research effort intending to challenge the present limits of embodiment and aviation, by adding dexterous, strong and gentle arms, and hands to UAVs. These to be capable of operating on external objects mid-flight.

Robocop
An overview of the Robocop films and TV series' together with how they have much to say on the very real areas of augmented reality, embodiment and robotics. This article also serves as an index for our growing range of articles examining individual aspects of the series' and the issues they directly showcase.

The Twilight Zone: The Lonely
A Twilight Zone episode from the late 1950s, comprising of a mix of substrate chauvinism, the psychology of loneliness, artificial intelligence, avatar psychology, and embodiment in one half hour long, blunt and honest package.

Large Image Display: Simone: Mocap Synthespian
A scene from the film Simone, describing the merging of human and machine elements, creating an avatar embodiment which is half her human operator, and half artificially sourced. A scene showing something that is all too realistic, and very likely to occur for real.

Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot

Julian Dibbell, freelance writer, and author of ?A Tiny Life? and other works chronicling the massive, disruptive impact of virtual lives on both the physical and the virtual. He tried a little experiment: was it possible to make more money from his forays into the virtual, buying and selling virtual items, than he makes as a successful writer?

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