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This week's Innovators on marketing is the 13th installment in a series profiling people we think will make a profound mark on the new century. So perhaps you're wondering who our pick for the next avatar of yoga is or who the next wave of civic leaders are. --Find the whole Innovators epic at time.com/innovators...
...whose favored intoxicant is locally processed hashish. By the time the night was over, the two would become central figures in the succession to a throne traditionally occupied by a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. Until Friday, King Birendra, the Crown Prince's father, was the god's avatar...
...sure, current technologies that transmit images and voice fall far short of anything remotely realistic. At present, teleconferencing generally involves jerky video and canned sound. There is no real eye contact. The center hopes to project a 3-D avatar so real that you'll feel as if Bob is really sitting next you and Tina is across the table, though in reality they might be a continent or two away. "You can be immersed anywhere in the world and feel like a participant," says Max Nikias, the center's director. Within a decade or so, he predicts...
...John Morris, chief operating officer of Europe Online, which is producing Now or Never, says that in the near future an avatar - a character that exists only in cyberspace - will greet us when we turn on our televisions. "Good evening, you have five e-mail messages waiting. Would you like to read them now? While you were at work today I downloaded some of your favorite music from the Internet. Would you prefer to listen to that or look over the selection of broadcast TV shows and movies that I saved...
Shin created a spacious hall with slabs of virtual stone to house the memorial. Like the rest of Dadaworld, it is a three-dimensional space: visitors use "avatars"--cyberfigures incarnating individual people or characters--to navigate a broad stairway and enter the hall, where pictures of the deceased children hang on the wall. Visitors can click on icons to see more pictures and video clips of the victims or ponder messages left by grieving parents. Parents can even ask to see computer-generated avatars of their children. One father took his avatar son for a walk in the virtual garden...