Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab When participants were in “outdoor” VR environments surrounded by “nature”, they said the experience was more restorative and provided more pleasure than when they were in “indoor” VR environments. . “In the metaverse, you can be anyone or anywhere,” says study lead author Eugy Han, a doctoral student in communications …
The author is a scientific commentator Some might lay an extra place setting at the Christmas table or put a token gift under the tree that will never be unwrapped. Others may commemorate the loss of a loved one with a quiet toast or walking a favorite trail. But the rise of “grief technology” may …
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Cameron with stars Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana at the premiere of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ in London ISABEL INFANTS Text size From ‘Terminator’ to ‘Titanic’ to ‘Avatar’, director James Cameron has pushed Hollywood’s technical magic to new limits, but human emotion must always come first, he told the AFP. In an …
If your Instagram is flooded with algorithmically generated portraits of your friends, you’re not alone. After adding a new Stable Diffusion-based avatar generation tool, photo-editing app Lensa AI has gone viral in recent days, with users sharing their bizarre AI-created avatars (and gruesome duds) in stories and publications. Lensa’s fun and eminently shareable avatars mark …
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Applied AI: the critical importance of recommendation engines and intelligent avatars The characteristics of online sales are changing. We look at the importance of a smart, AI-powered, avatar-based front-end combined with a powerful recommendation engine. By Rob Enderle October 31, 2022 Recommendation engines are intelligent systems that learn about existing and potential customers and provide …
At its Ignite conference this week, Microsoft announced updates to Teams, its ever-evolving workplace video conferencing and collaboration app. New avatars are available, and more details have been announced around Teams Premium, a paid set of Teams features including AI-generated tasks and meeting guides, slated to premiere in December. Teams Premium is an effort to …
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