Enrique Iglesias spices up Zynga's 'CityVille'
(AP) -- Pop stars are lining up to make their debut in Facebook games from online game maker Zynga.
Internet
Sep 29, 2011
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News tagged with avatar
Personalized 3-D avatars for real life
An avatar is really no more than a graphical representation, generally human, which is associated with a user for identification purposes. Avatars can be either photographs or art drawings, and certain technologies enable ...
Engineering
Sep 15, 2011
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AviCoS replaces vehicle owner's manuals
The avatar is displayed on the monitor of the Audi Mulitmedia Interface that comes standard in all new Audi models. The virtual figure understands complete sentences. Using artificial intelligence, AviCoS interprets questions ...
Engineering
Aug 4, 2011
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Avatar may soon be keeping your safe in the skies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lie detection is coming to a whole new level. Soon we will not have to rely on the work of individual agents to figure out who is just trying to get on a plane and who is a criminal mastermind in the making.
Virtual self can affect reality self
If you spend a lot of time online, you may even have an electronic alter ego--an avatar. An avatar is a movable image that people design to represent themselves in virtual reality environments or in cyberspace.
Other
Jan 24, 2011
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Making 3D avatars the easy way
Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a user-friendly method for creating realistic three-dimensional avatars (graphical representations of computer users) from any digital image.
Computer Sciences
Dec 1, 2010
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New research: What does your avatar say about you?
Old or young, beautiful or sinister - the choices are endless when designing an avatar or a virtual alter ego. In the end, do people choose one that is really different from themselves? Usually not, according to new Concordia ...
Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2010
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Avatars as lifelike representations and effective marketing tools
It is predicted that 80% of active Internet consumers and Fortune 500 companies will have an avatar or presence in a virtual community, including social networks, by the end of 2011. A new article in the journal Psychology ...
Other
Jul 12, 2010
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Virtual reality you can reach out and touch
A team of European researchers has "virtually" teleported real objects through cyberspace, touched things in virtual reality and even felt the movements of a virtual dance partner.
Computer Sciences
Jul 1, 2010
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Avatar's New Twist on Plants
Although they're not nominated for an Academy Award, plants play a central role in the blockbuster movie "Avatar." A botanist provided the science behind how these unusual organisms may have evolved.
Space Exploration
Mar 4, 2010
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