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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.10.09
Round-Up After all, while your virtual world giant panda avatar might be great for hanging out with your mates, it might be a slightly terrifying sight when it ambles up to Mary in accounts and asks about its expenses. [16 Oct 2009]
Avatars made to wear a suit to work as the style police arrive
News An avatar is a virtual representation of the computer user, and can consist of anything from a two-dimensional icon to an animated 3D figure. Gartner said firms should be teaching employees how to control their avatars,... [09 Oct 2009]
James Cameron
AS Profile The film in question is Avatar and, while cinema goers have yet to see the finished product, the early buzz suggests it could represent the next big leap forward in film tech. With its innovative use of new 3D... [29 Sep 2009]
Photos: Game over for boring business training
Photo Good performance is rewarded with exploding fireworks, while failure will see the avatar on the street, holding a sign saying "Will BPM for food". Forget storming Martian bases or battling advancing armies, the latest... [08 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft's Project Natal
Cheat Sheet With Natal, you can kick and punch your way across the living room carpet and watch your avatar do exactly the same onscreen, dispatching baddies with your excellent roundhouses. Project Natal. Sounds very James Bond [10 Aug 2009]
Photos: Touring the world Second Life style
Photo Here the avatar is walking through the centre of Dublin. 1961 saw the Beatles first take to the stage at Liverpool's Cavern Club. Nearly 50 years later, the celebrated venue has been reborn in Second Life. [28 Jul 2009]
Enhancing Software Engineering Education Using Teaching Aids in 3-D Online Virtual Worlds
White Paper Three-dimensional Online Virtual Worlds such as Second Life support avatar-based communications, a wide spectrum of online activities, and development of various in-world teaching and learning tools. The authors have... [30 Nov 2008]
Artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, BT's tunnels and Apple's patents
News But you can still dig out your avatar because virtual worlds are set for a second coming according to industry experts. There has been a lot of future gazing this month on silicon.com, although dreams of chatting to our... [05 Nov 2008]
An Expressive Avatar for Instant Messaging Endowed With Emotional Intelligence
White Paper This paper proposes to endow a graphical representation of a user in Instant Messaging - an avatar - with the ability to recognize and to express emotions and to play social nonverbal behaviour, on the basis of textual... [03 Nov 2008]
Photos: Second Life gets down to business
Photo You can watch a feed of the latest news on the screen in the atrium or pick up a head-up display for your avatar which you can then use to keep up to date with real world news while roving around the rest of Second Life. [31 Oct 2008]
Virtual worlds set for second coming
Comment This includes holding real-time meetings in the worlds with each member participating via an avatar. Not hearing much about virtual worlds these days? They're not dead, says Tim Ferguson - just preparing for the next round. [27 Oct 2008]
Photos: Five virtual worlds you need to know about
Photo Once users have created their avatar they get their own Kaneva city loft that they can decorate in whatever style they want and use to store and access games, music, photos and videos. Qwaq is essentially a virtual... [21 Oct 2008]
Purple dragons pimp security for Unilever
News In a video of the launch shown at the Gartner IT Security Summit on Monday, company CEO Patrick Cescau speaks to a gathering of tanned, smiling staff about the importance of security, while one woman finds her avatar... [29 Sep 2008]
Photos: It's virtual everything in Cisco's future
Photo Networking company Cisco has been showing off some of the technologies it's working on in its R&D division - including this telehealth station, pictured above. Corinne Marsolier (right), from Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group's... [16 Jul 2008]
Photos: A peek at the future of telemedicine
Photo This device communicates with the PC via Bluetooth and the patient's leg movements appear on screen, via an avatar. As the patient exercises, the avatar displays the movement enabling the doctor to... [10 Jul 2008]
