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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The real beauty of it is the software, capable of almost instantly inferring a subject's motion, which is reflected by an onscreen avatar in a game.
In one of the demonstrations that is the most remarkable, and shocking, Bailenson shows how he can take a picture of a person, and render a 3D lifelike avatar in just a few minutes.
If Avatar is a bona fide hit, studios will start pumping out many more 3-D films.
The company offers Avatar as a counterpoint, which hit the same mark in 17 days.
The second was an avatar of a humanlike dummy, again viewed from behind.
It was the avatar of a new age, a symbol of how technological progress could transform the human condition.
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Why not change the avatar to a picture of a squid for one day, why not tweet a link to an old Muppet Show clip.
Each avatar is a computer-animated person who represents an individual user.
One avatar described a word without mentioning the actual word.
While movie stars are seemingly somewhat superfluous in the age of Transformers and Avatar, a look at the top grossing films of 2010 on Box Office Mojo shows that stars still matter.
One bright spot, even in the depths of this recession, has been the movie business, as films like the Twilight Saga, Avatar and a half-dozen or so IMAX releases have ignited box office numbers.
Your avatar has a race (human, elf, orc etc), a class (warrior, priest, wizard, etc), a more or less extensive inventory of all sorts of stuff (weapons, armor, potions, fishing rods, etc), a level and, in effect, a bank account.
The most problematic form of digital attacks for businesses are evil clones, impersonators who use technology to create a believable avatar of you that confesses to a misdeed, or exaggerates your faults.
Instead, he said, Shroud of the Avatar would be a much more open experience in which players were free to follow their own path.
Dr Brahnam has also found that the appearance of the chatbot's on-screen persona, or avatar, has a significant impact on how much abuse is levelled at it.
"Avatar" is a combination of live action and photo-realistic CGI and is being touted as a huge leap forward in film technology -- likened to the first movie in sound or with Technicolor.
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Instead of a portal gun, your clone avatar has your wits, a surprisingly powerful jump, some computer skills and a healthy acceptance of mortality.
Each player who joins a NiL server is represented by an Avatar, in this case a little blue worm.
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Sam Worthington stars as a former Marine paralyzed from the waist down offered the chance to have a healthy body again by becoming an "avatar" -- a 10ft tall, blue-skinned creature genetically engineered to resemble the planet's humanoid life forms.
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In its latest effort, a Steve Jobs avatar (clearly fictional because his trademark black mock turtleneck looks more like a V-neck), magically morphs into a ninja and starts flinging throwing stars around the airport when he's stopped.
Users can turn Lykka off or switch to a different avatar if they like.
Hals is an avatar of style as a free-floating value, independent of its subjects.
Those display warnings on an avatar rather than show a naked image of the passenger.
Though most only knew Smith as a name on a board and a digital Avatar, people develop tight connections in places like the EVE universe.
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Avatar--and I liked Avatar--is a movie shot through with liberal sensibilities.
Amalur has a much deeper combat system: each play style feels totally different, the player gets to mix and macth abilities to make a unique avatar, combat is fluid and dynamic, etc. and so forth.
"As you can see now Kinect can track features like your smile, your laugh and even the raise of your eyebrows, " Ballmer said, offering a demo of himself as a bald avatar -- his digital eyebrows bouncing up and down.
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