Virtual Teachers Outperform Real Thing Posted: 9 months ago by TchEngRox
Virtual characters and digital tutors are helping children and adults develop advanced social and language skills that can be tough to learn via conventional approaches, according to researchers who briefed reporters here last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Virtual characters that meet your gaze Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
New Sony software lets them look at scenes and people the way humans do. The goal is to make virtual humans and perhaps humanoid robots easier to relate to. A video shows one of their characters playing a game that involves looking at cards and a researcher.
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Virtual furniture theft leads to real bust Posted: 1 year ago by indisguise
Dutch police have arrested a 17-year-old for stealing virtual furniture from users of the Habbo Hotel, a social networking and gaming website, according to news reports.
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Virtual affair leads to real divorce for UK couple Posted: 3 weeks ago by Bornbad
A virtual affair is ending a real-life marriage in southwest England.
Amy Taylor filed for divorce when she discovered her husband cheating in Second Life
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Endemol, EA team up to develop "Virtual Me" Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The new technology, dubbed “Virtual Me”, combines EA’s state-of-the-art avatar creation technology with Endemol’s TV formats to give consumers a breakthrough way to meet, compete and socialize in online digital worlds.
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Woman jailed after 'killing' virtual husband Posted: 1 month ago by smarty1052
A 43-year-old player in a virtual game world became so angry about her sudden divorce from her online husband that she logged on with his password and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.
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Virtual Guitar Posted: 2 years ago by Mershaullk
With this you can create and save chords on either an acoustic or electric guitar.
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Virtual breakup turns real ugly Posted: 3 months ago by coldbladed
A woman wanted in the bizarrely complicated attempted kidnapping of her former virtual boyfriend has been apprehended after a multi-state search.
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World of Warcraft gamer sells profile for $1300 Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Enterprising teenagers savvy about the ways of the Internet are making thousands by selling virtual "characters" to other computer-game players.
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Dutch court convicts 2 of stealing virtual items Posted: 1 month ago by smarty1052
The Leeuwarden District Court says the culprits, 15 and 14 years old, coerced a 13-year-old boy into transferring a "virtual amulet and a virtual mask" from the online adventure game RuneScape to their game accounts.
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Microsoft Releases Virtual PC 2007 Posted: 2 years ago by mo0nrider
Microsoft has released Virtual PC 2007 and is available for free download from their website. Virtual PC is a brilliant piece of software; it allows you to run multiple operating systems at the same time on a single physical machine.
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Could our universe be a virtual reality process by other intelligence? Posted: 10 months ago by deepchill
“If I’m in a virtual reality, the graphics are great, but the plot sucks.”
- Student of Prof. Brian Whitworth
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U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi - a virtual pretty girl for lonely lonely geeks! Posted: 1 year ago by fogowar
For the poor lonely geeks who do not have a partner yet. The Japanese has a cool invention specially made for the lonely, lonely geeky men. It’s called U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi, which is a humanoid that is mixed with virtual reality that can map a pretty girl and her beautiful actions.
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Matrix-style virtual worlds 'a few years away' Posted: 8 months ago by deEPCHill
Michael McGuigan at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, thinks so. He says that virtual worlds realistic enough to be mistaken for the real thing are just a few years away.
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Every Third Woman Would Have Real Sex with Her Virtual Partner Posted: 1 year ago by maxriter
Every fourth Australian woman is ready to have unprotected sex on the first date, claims the research conducted by the Australian Sexuality Research and Social Policy organization.
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Sony to launch virtual universe Posted: 2 years ago by Cristian
Capitalizing on the popularity of social networks and online worlds, Sony will launch its own virtual universe and another 3-D game built almost entirely by players. "Home" is a real-time, networked world for the PlayStation 3 in which players create human-looking characters called avatars. They can buy clothing, furniture and videos to play on a virtual flat-screen television in their virtual apartments.
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Virtual space exploration with google Posted: 2 years ago by teaya21
Internet users may soon be able to explore the canyons of Mars and experience a virtual flight over the surface of the moon after a deal between Google and NASA was announced today.
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The online virtual news Posted: 2 years ago by TheStep
News At Seven automatically gathers news with relevant images, videos and opinions from blogs and combines them into a virtual newscast.
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Video Game Characters and Their Real Life Soulmates Posted: 11 months ago by muppetmaker
10 Characters from Video Games and Their Real Life Counterparts.
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NYU Student Invents Virtual Girlfriend Posted: 7 months ago by deepdiver
NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program student Drew Burrows, 28, engineered a "virtual girlfriend," and showed her off at a recent Tisch School of the Arts show.
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Duran Duran In Virtual Reality Game Posted: 2 years ago by musicgirldani
They have all gotten avatars and will have a virtual concert. They are the first band to do so and I'm sure more will follow.
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