Even the most brilliant and mesmerizing avatars cannot compensate for what is missing in real life.
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The avatars are self-learning and can be designed to answer specific questions or variations of questions.
Why these boring old avatars of fantasy are interesting to anyone any longer is beyond me.
When you receive an e-mail the avatars appear at the entrance to the hotel's pool.
Other avatars have created cameras and are filming things that happen in Second Life.
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Technology had made remarkable strides in creating lifelike avatars, but can it duplicate human relationships?
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The company is currently developing software that allows users to create three-dimensional digital avatars of themselves.
Live not only sells downloadable games and accessories for players' avatars, but movies and music as well.
The service is free but includes paid virtual goods, additional avatars and song hooks from top artists.
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More than 3.6 million Koreans have avatars, or virtual selves, representing them in chat rooms and e-mail.
"The level of interaction that comes about with natural-looking avatars--it can really draw you in, " Rozwell says.
Strauss-Kahn, like other avatars of the system, reveled in his own kind of aristocratic and exclusive playground.
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In a way, it brought together avatars of the new tech scene with icons of established fashion power.
It makes money by selling items players can use in the games, such as avatars and better weapons.
Kennedy, the family patriarch, and his three oldest sons, the avatars of his political ambitions, and on John F.
The digital avatars are animated, so they turn their heads and blink realistically.
It also lets the avatars (and hence the participants) talk to one another.
EA's Sims Online encouraged people posing as avatars to meet, chat and entertain each other within worlds the creators design.
One premium feature that's already popular outside the U.S. is custom avatars, says Larry Grothaus, lead product manager for MSN.
Hackers have already unleashed World War III in World of Warcraft, killing the avatars of thousands of innocent gamers.
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In a recent study (published in the journal Public Library of Science One) seven pairs of subjects controlled virtual avatars.
Residents of this digital realm can represent themselves with 3-D images called avatars and connect with each other over the Internet.
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In the game, players, using avatars, move from room to room, chat to other users and furnish their rooms using credits.
Even without the avatars, TV is getting more social as it brings elements of the internet into the living room, Ballmer said.
Young men are a big audience, but the South Korean firms are also attracting women, who seem especially fond of virtual avatars.
We all have various identities floating around out there, with their own avatars, icons and passwords, only partially under our own control.
Why, yes it does: male avatars stand further away from each other while in groups than female avatars do from each other.
In effect, some avatars become actors for other avatars who become directors.
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Online websites promise avatars that will allow us to love our bodies, love our lives, and find the true romance we dream of.
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With its full head and motion tracking support, the technology is a milestone for real-time gaze interaction with virtual avatars or 3D gaming applications.
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