Infinite Reality authors Blascovich and Bailenson predict that Avatars will make social networks seductive.
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Virtual Reality and Social Networks Will Be a Powerful Combination, Los Angeles Times
Virtual Aging Photos May Offer Incentive To Save, CBS 5
Researchers at Stanford say having a clear visual image of how we might look like at retirement age could help us face reality and better plan for it.
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A Greener Future, Maclean’s
Infinite Reality authors say people will be able attend "virtual meetings" in the form of highly realistic three-dimensional avatars instead of paying the personal and environmental toll of flying across the country.
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3-D Avatars Could Put You in Two Places at Once, The New York Times
In a virtual conference with three-dimensional avatars participants would feel immersed in the scene as you they around at the other participants from the eyes of their avatar.
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Meet ‘Future You.’ Like What You See?, The Wall Street Journal
To increase retirement investment by young people researchers are tapping into the Proteus effect, behavioral alterations in the real world that are triggered by changes in how our bodies appear to us in a virtual world.
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Your Avatar, Your Guide, Scientific American
Seeing a digital doppelgänger can change your mind — for better or worse. VHIL is exploring how doppelgänger avatars can be effective in advertising or in therapy to clients who have phobias or social anxiety.
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Virtual Self, NSF Science Nation
Evidence from VHIL research on Avatars suggest that you start to become the idealized person you imagine.
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