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Quest An act to be performed by a player for another player or NPC, that will give them a specified reward upon completion. Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.
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World Review: Adventure Quest
Rating 75.5
In our quest to look at mythological creatures from around the world, giving ideas for virtual beings; we encounter a Persian demon which crosses Islamic, Christian and Armenian mythos. 
A physorg article, looking at one man's quest to bring augmented reality interfaces for computation into existence - blending the computer interface with the physical world.
The value of objects changes from world to world, depending on intent, style, or any one of a thousand factors. ?The quest token that sends you into spasms of joy will be nothing special elsewhere.? This guide is set up to try and help content creators decide what should be valuable, and why.
 Robulab by name, sounds like it might be a form of robotic dog. Well, it is not. As the image above shows, its nothing so wildly interesting as that. Yet, what it is, represents something of a paradigm shift that is slowly taking place in the quest for more mainstream robotics.
?as a general guideline, tasks are smaller than quests. You could compare the range of what tasks could be to what you think a boy-scout does as tasks. Helping the old lady across the street, fetching groceries for that friendly old man, etc. etc.?
A detailed and in-depth article by the singularity hub, on the quest for integrating the human body with a sensory network, and what such will mean for us as individuals, health and life-wise.
The five-year tale of Bob Mottram's quest to create a general purpose machine vision with two eyes, able to see the world how humans do.
 Idoru is, essentially, one long piece on the struggle to understand the quest for robot rights ? or in this case, the rights of an AI itself, from an outsider?s perspective; from the perspective of one who refuses to accept the AI as other than a tool, despite all evidence to the contrary.
 In October 2005, Wired magazine featured the four-page story of Michael Chorost, a man who fought to revolutionise artificial hearing, and who has relied upon a computer surgically installed inside his skull. Called a cochlear implant, this routine replacement has 16 electrodes that snake inside the inner ear, and plenty of room for improvement.
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Intel today announced an important advance in the quest to use light beams to replace the use of electrons to carry data in and around computers. Intel Corporation today announced an important advance in the quest to use ligh...
(06/02/2009)
ELAD, or extracorporeal liver assist device, powered by human liver cells, is a promising entry in the decades old quest to rebuild a human liver, artificially. It "comes closer to replacing the amount of liver" people need...
(06/08/2009)
The quest for artificial intelligence continues with a new competition to design computer programs that can play the classic NES Super Mario Bros. game. Organized by Julian Togelius at the IT University of Copenhagen, the Mario AI Competiti...
(28/07/2009)
In a gleaming white factory, Bob Peters was gently feeding sheets of chemical-coated foil one afternoon recently into a whirring machine that cut them into precise rectangles. It was an early step in building a new kind of battery, one smal...
(03/07/2006)
"Human Trials" is a unique virtual reality psychodrama in which duplicitous characters try to disempower a human participant on a journey to the "liminal portal of the unconscious" in a quest for her "Heart's Desire." ...
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