What it is like to be an avatar

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Soon avatars may make social networks even more engaging than they already are. In the future, if more people spend time in virtual reality, how will this influence them? That’s a question a newly renovated Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford wants to know.

“We’re trying to really leverage the resources of the lab to do good for society,” Stanford’s Jeremy Bailenson said in a statement. “A lot of our studies now are geared toward putting people, everyday citizens, in situations that they wouldn’t be in otherwise.”  more...