Facebook credits are virtual currency that can be spent on virtual goods (virtual farmland, outfits for your avatar, virtual food, treasure, new abilities, etc.) within apps and social games played on Facebook, like FrontierVille and Farmville.
Shaker is a Facebook app for people to interact and meet in an avatar virtual world.
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Savill, who represents himself in the virtual world using an avatar named Dave Sparrow, said one benefit is that visitors can practice social interaction and find information about the condition.
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Zed Drebin is an avatar in the virtual world of Second Life.
MyCyberTwin, which has developed an avatar-based virtual agent for financial institutions that boasts a three-second response time and an astonishing 94% accuracy rate (better than many human reps), is moving downstream.
Called AVATAR (Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time) and developed by the US government and the University of Arizona, an official figure (a man nicknamed Elvis) projected onto a screen conducts the interviews and can detect small changes in movement and behaviour to see if a traveller is telling the truth.
Second Life, as its name implies, is a virtual world in which members create an avatar and then use that character to live out a separate existence.
Young consumers can buy special clothing and accessories for their avatar, spending more money on virtual outfits even as they spend less on fashion in the real world.
With that popularity comes opportunity -- and not only for Internet land barons like self-proclaimed Second Life millionaire Anshe Chung, but also virtual builders, landscapers and interior decorators, designers of avatar clothing and accessories, and even community moderators and governors.
The Avatar Kinect system will let people host and attend virtual meetings and gatherings with the avatars of their friends and have their on-screen doubles act out what they are doing in real life.
In Home, players control a customized avatar in a lush, high-definition, 3-D virtual world where they can find new friends or play games together in the world.
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Developers at Bioware are hoping to catch that same virtual lightning in a bottle with "Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar, " the next chapter in the search for the Avatar of Britannia.
Virtual item sales include movies and music for digital download, as well as games and avatar accessories.
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Players may choose to purchase premium items as status symbols, invest their virtual money into income-generating businesses or use the money to improve their pets or avatar characters.
Avatar Kinect allows Xbox Live users to record their avatars in different settings chatting together in a virtual space, even if their real selves are elsewhere.
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