Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution
Description: Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution examines virtual reality technologies and their impact on human identity, digital environments, and possible future experiences. The book covers avatars, simulated worlds, and emerging VR concepts
ISBN: 0061809500
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A professor friend of mine Jeremy Bailenson at Stanford actually uses the Kinect to track facial movements and uses 3D models of others to create puppets in real-time. Even more interesting, he can morph your face with the person you're video conferencing with to create a feeling of commonality in them.
He actually wrote a book on it called Infinite Reality [1] which talks about all kinds of ways people will probably get manipulated in the future. He talks about things like mirroring movements (which he can do automatically in a video conference), looking into the eyes of every participant in a group video conference and other really interesting psychological hacks.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Reality-Avatars-Eternal-Revol...