Giving Avatars Real Bodies


	Giving Avatars Real Bodies

wildcat

12-24-2007 11:03 AM

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robotics, virtuality, avatars

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"..in a sense, virtual reality can control reality.."

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Scientists have developed an interface between reality and virtual reality in which, in a sense, virtual reality can control reality.
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