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Using virtual reality to make experiments more realistic
27 January 2016, 7:19 pm

Avatars are all around us: they represent real people online and colonise new worlds in the movies. In science, their role has been more limited. But avatars can be extremely useful in linguistics, new research shows. Scientists use virtual avatars to investigate how real people behave in interaction. The method makes it possible to study with great precision how people adjust to each other in conversation.

Source: Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily