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Avatar (computing) In computing, an avatar is a graphical representation of a user, the user's character, or persona. Avatars can be two-dimensional icons in Internet forums and other online communities, where they are also known as profile pictures, userpics, or formerly picons (personal icons, or possibly "picture icons"). Alternatively, an ...
Digital immortality (or " virtual immortality ") [1] is the hypothetical yet increasingly realistic concept of storing (or emulating) a person's personality in digital substrate, i.e., a computer, robot or cyberspace [2] (mind uploading). The result might look like an avatar behaving, reacting, and thinking like a person on the basis of that ...
Avatar. In the 2009 science-fiction film Avatar, director James Cameron conceived a fictional universe in which humans seek to mine unobtanium on the fictional habitable moon Pandora. The Earth-like moon is inhabited by a sapient indigenous humanoid species called the Na'vi, as well as varied fauna and flora.
A virtual world (also called a virtual space) is a computer-simulated environment [ 1 ] which may be populated by many simultaneous users who can create a personal avatar [ 2 ] and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities, and communicate with others. [ 3 ][ 4 ] These avatars can be textual, [ 5 ] graphical ...
A non-player character (NPC), also called a non-playable character, is a character in a game that is not controlled by a player. [1] The term originated in traditional tabletop role-playing games where it applies to characters controlled by the gamemaster or referee rather than by another player. In video games, this usually means a character ...
Matt Damon’s decision to turn down James Cameron’s 2009 space epic “Avatar,” which remains the highest-grossing movie of all time with $2.9 billion worldwide, remains one of the more ...
In the original Avatar cartoon series, Sozin’s Comet is a “ticking clock,” as Kim put in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. When the notorious comet dips down closest to the atmosphere ...
James Cameron on criticism of Avatar before its release. Box office analysts, on the other hand, estimated that the film would be a box office success. "The holy grail of 3-D has finally arrived," said an analyst for Exhibitor Relations. "This is why all these 3-D venues were built: for Avatar. This is the one. The behemoth." The "cautionary estimate" was that Avatar would bring in around $60 ...