An avatar is a “manifestation” of a deity‚ the bodily form of a deity on Earth. Varaha‚ an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu‚ is a boar. There are multiple representations of Varaha‚ ranging from a full-body boar to a man’s body with a boar’s head. The representations of Varaha are usually depicted as
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KINECT 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. OVERVIEW Kinect (originally known by the code name Project Natal)‚ is a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game platform. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console‚ it enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller‚ through a natural user interface using gestures and spoken commands. The project is aimed at broadening the Xbox
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visual human embodiment or avatar. Since humans express emotion in faceto-face encounters primarily through facial expression‚ an investigation was undertaken in order to establish how such expressions might be effectively and efficiently captured and represented in an avatar. The study involved consulting sociopsychological research relating to face-to-face encounters‚ followed by a controlled experiment to investigate user ability to interpret the faces of the avatars pre-prepared to express specific
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EXAMINING TEEN GIRLS’ FASHION BEHAVIOR IN THE VIRTUAL AND THE REAL WORLD: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science In The School of Human Ecology By Caroline Makena Kobia B.Ed.‚ Moi University‚ Kenya‚ 2000 May 2011 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My greatest debt of gratitude goes to my advisor‚ Dr. Chuanlan Liu‚ whose insightful comments
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In The Fixer‚ the comic is set in 2001‚ where Sacco’s avatar as the war reporter returned to postwar Sarajevo and an economically devastated Bosnia. The postwar scenes indicate the tentative relationship between Neven and Sacco’s avatar‚ by utilizing the graphic and narration to allow the audience to analyze the ideology and subjectivity of the characters. According to Terri Tomsky‚ he defines the trauma economy as where the trauma interacts “with other capitalist power structures” (49). Similarly
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htm Bastin‚ R. (n.d.). Human Evolution and Human Diversity. Retrieved from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au/bbcswebav/pid-1789076-dt-content-rid-1999736_1/xid-1999736_1?target=blank Cameron‚ J.‚ Landau‚ J. (Producers)‚ & Cameron‚ J. (Director). (2009). Avatar [DVD]. United States: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Diamond‚ J. (1994‚ November 1). Race without color. Discover‚ Retrieved from http://discovermagazine.com/1994/nov/racewithoutcolor444 Sternberg‚ R. J.‚ Grigorenko‚ E. L.‚ & Kidd‚ K‚ K
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“How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle My Rhetorical Analysis Argument will be over “How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle. In this article Turkle explains how computers have changed the way we store information‚ our sense of privacy and our competence to think ahead. Turkle studies the sociology of sciences of mind‚ a study of the interactions among technical‚ literary‚ and popular discourses about the self as they develop in specific social contexts. (Turkle
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Reading Assignment - "Language in Thought and Action" by S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa book report Language in my Thought and my Action Since I was born‚ I have been learning languages consciously and unconsciously without asking why. S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa‘s Language in Thought and Action remind me the goal of the study of language – to learn to think more clearly‚ to speak and to write more effectively‚ and to listen and to read with greater understanding. This book is divided
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Sasha’s Story ~ The Lost Rasputina: Despite the claims of the family proper‚ their beautifully constructed genealogical maps‚ and theories about magic being passed down through bloodlines… the founders of House Rasputin did not have any blood-ties to the man Grigori Rasputin. After all‚ the last name Rasputin was surprisingly common for the era and the area where Grigori Rasputin had been born. And after the overthrow of the Russian tsar‚ many papers and records were lost or destroyed during the
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Real Sense 3D depth camera fitted into smartphone The real sense is introduced in 3D that included into the camera and the 3D defines the depth for camera which will fit into the smartphones this defines the new technology in real sense 3D for cameras. In the latest Intel announced the version of its 3D depth camera which is small and thin enough to be fitted into smartphone with 15.2cm where real sense sensor can be used to detect hand and head movements and makes it possible to change the focus
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