Avatar (what a concept..?)
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this twine is to explore the past, present and future landscape of the concept, realization implementation and projection of Avatars, a presence we are becoming oh so very familiar with..:))
Feel invited to launch the grounds, after all it is our 'faces' and interfaces we are talking about..
Feel invited to launch the grounds, after all it is our 'faces' and interfaces we are talking about..
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Futurity.org – Avatars behaving badlyBreaking News From The Future “By manipulating the appearance of the avatar, you can augment the probability of people thinking and behaving in predictable ways without raising suspicion,” says Peña. “Thus, you can automatically make a virtual encounter more competitive or cooperative by simply ...
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Theme-park dummy trick becomes teleconference tool - tech - 02 November 2009 - New ScientistA theme-park animatronic trick could allow people act more naturally in videoconferences. Shader lamps is a technique that projects an animated face that looks three-dimensional onto a dummy's blank face. Now the trick has been exploited to project a person's features onto a animatronic ...
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Avatar Customization Increases Feelings of Presence | World of PsychologyAlthough it may be pretty obvious that allowing a user to customize their avatar would lead them to enjoy whatever service they’re using, new research confirms this conventional wisdom for children as well. (An avatar is simply a graphical representation of a person in a virtual or other online ...
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Philosophy of information: The Construction of Personal Identities OnlineFunded with £165,521 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), this research, entitled ‘The Construction of Personal Identities Online’, will explore how people reinvent themselves in virtual environments. Information and communication technologies are building a new habitat ...
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Virtual Life and Art on the WebHere are some stunning highlights from the New York Times Magazine article, "Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar" by Sara Corbett: His use of voluptuous colors, unbalanced composition and busy, layered images suggests both the bursting, overcapitalized nature of information technology today as ...
wildcat
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The Changing Faces of JonRodrpfiii, first of all very nice impact and matrix of graphics the above, not directly met JonRod yet, an interesting trail of shapeshifting and interaction with symbols.. and i do go with your question mark. Choosing an Avatar seems to be a new (relatively) conscious act available upon the horizon. ...starwalker added 11 months ago
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8Great IdeaSo is that a starfish on the main page? Where are the eyes? lol. .•∞º˙ added 11 months ago
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