Sentences with phrase «screen avatar»

As I struggle to pedal, a thin, bald on - screen avatar of Perry speaks of the limitations of the software used (her «fatness» could not be replicated, she says) and of the negative health consequences that result from believing we live in a «just society» where people get what they deserve, and wonders whether visitors to the gallery have benefited from colonial theft.

Your on - screen avatar, today represented by the Japanese detective, Toby, who uses an office chair to roll downhill performing tricks and Kung - Fu moves for points.

We have the success of a few big name titles to thank for thank for this, namely Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dead Space, and Silent Hill, and now there are more opportunities to weep softly into our controllers as our on - screen avatar becomes the tastiest treat at a monster picnic.

Without limbs, players will have to master a whole new way of controlling their on - screen avatar to make him slither, coil and climb his way to the top of the mountain to reunite with his scaly brethren.

That means the game quickly develops a sense of repetition as you click on the same things again and again, watching as your on - screen avatar performs actions with no player involvement needed.

The darts section was equally impressive with the Kinect tracking the weight and power of our throws, having them smoothly play out with our on - screen avatar.

One way is to personalize the responses of an on - screen avatar to the responses of the learner through branched interactions.

The result is her third collaboration with director Jason Reitman, and her second with her on - screen avatar, Charlize Theron.

This tight, intimate introduction to a man at what is likely the lowest point of his life serves to immediately connect the player to his / her on screen avatar.

To play, you need to use the Wii Remote, which is a hand - held, motion - sensitive controller that works to translate your real - world actions into the virtual world, making your animated on - screen avatar mimic your movement.

Pollina and colleague Allison Baretta built a system in which an on - screen avatar equipped with speech - recognition capability asks a series of screening questions.

Stanford University psychologists staged an online game in which players represented by on - screen avatars competed to solve a series of math problems.

Not exact matches

Before James Cameron made «Avatar» and broke all box - office records, he was planning on making the big - screen adaptation of «Battle Angel Alita,» the famous manga series created by Yukito Kishiro.

After showing footage of «Alita: Battle Angel» at CinemaCon on Thursday, Rodriguez and producer Jon Landau («Avatar» movies) sat down with Business Insider to talk about the evolution of the project and why this manga won't end up like the big - screen version of «Ghost in the Shell.»

In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever made.

In other words, you and your co-workers build your own avatars, then gather to have on - screen meetings in private conference rooms, art galleries, auditoriums — whatever virtual environment feels right.

Their 3D avatars are beamed to the other screen, where they are incorporated into the same virtual landscape.

In later endeavors, Nicolelis trained rhesus monkeys to use brain - machine interfaces to control robotic limbs, and later, the 3 - D movements of an avatar — animated versions of themselves on a digital screen.

This is a screen grab from a video summarizing the experiment shows a patient learning to use an avatar to walk in virtual reality.

Then the team asked 21 healthy volunteers to use their eyes to guide the avatar's gaze towards a grey box projected on a computer screen, or to follow the avatar's gaze, while inside the scanner.

«The avatar appears life - sized on a large computer screen in a room set up like a doctor's office in our Clinical Skills Center,» Danforth said.

This incident took place in LamdaMOO, a text - based virtual community, and concerned a hacker known as Mr. Bungle, who took control of other avatars who were then made to describe violent, explicit acts on the screen.

«Before «Avatar,» digital represented only a small portion of the market, accounting for 15 percent of global screens in 2009.»

Hide behind your screen, your handle, your nick, you avatar; at least until you have broken the ice and you feel confident to face your date and tell them just how much you like them and how bad you want to go out on a date with them!

But the riselings and many other couples have found that their avatar attraction extended far beyond the computer screen.

Indeed, in the Q&A that followed the screening of In the Fade that I attended at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Akin went so far as to say that he wanted Katja to be a blonde - haired, blue - eyed avatar of himself; he wanted to cast a woman who would be a Nazi's ideal as the sworn enemy of Nazis, and to inject his own anger about the way he is treated as an «other» by neo-Nazis and their ilk into the character of an Aryan - looking woman who would otherwise be embraced by them.

As former «Black Panther» comics author Christopher J. Priest put it on his blog, «We have simply never seen anything at all like this: a huge blockbuster featuring a mostly black cast with effects rivaling «Avatar» and where every dime of that budget is up there on the screen.»

When you watch «Avatar» you believe that they are really there but this felt like a giant green screen shoot.

I was reminded more than once of the Black Mirror episode «Fifteen Million Merits,» in which Daniel Kaluuya's character lives in a small white box surrounded on all sides by TV screens and is permanently plugged in to a goofy media network of avatars, pornography, and reality television.

And the Coen brothers» «True Grit» will be the last film to screen for voting bodies and critics this season (late - November, so not quite as late as «Avatar» last year).

Martin Scorsese was very vocal when the hype of 3D was on the rise about two years ago when James Cameron's Avatar came to big screen and became the highest grossing film of all time.

The Weiners weren't the only real political power couple who showed up on Sundance screens, although the second dynamic duo got the fictional avatar treatment.

Plus, after the first half hour, his presence is, more or less, just his face on a computer screen, as if he were Skyping in his performance (speaking of, can anyone explain, without making his scientist wife seem like a moron, why Caster's virtual avatar chooses to wear glasses?)

His illness is represented on screen by an imaginary best friend, Jake (Thomas Dekker), who serves as an avatar of the primary voice in Jim's head.

The game pulls the 4 into it and they have become the characters or avatars that they chose at the start screen.

As the digital revolution has swept through Hollywood like brushfire, Nolan has remained a stalwart champion of shooting on film, and as 3D has increasingly become the blockbuster norm, he has refused to join the bandwagon, advocating instead for IMAX, a variant on the old 70 mm process responsible for the likes of Lawrence of Arabia and 2001, and whose screen - filling images envelop us in a way that only a select few 3D movies (chiefly Avatar and Hugo) have even approached.

In comparison, «Avatar» filmed the performance capture in front of green screen and added in the live actors and world around that.

This movie should not be confused with The Avatar: The Last Airbender (an animated TV series), which coincidentally is also being adapted to the big screen under the name of The Last Airbender, to be released in the summer of 2010.

Most of the time special effects that are used turn out looking cheap and take you out of the film since it's obvious the actors are standing in front of a green screen and / or reacting to something that isn't there (the spectacular effects in Avatar are the exception).

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Second Life participants create avatars, or customizable digital selves, to navigate a virtual landscape with an over-the-shoulder screen view of their persona as it walks, runs, or flies through or over mountains, forests, buildings, and all manner of objects created by users employing Second Life's internal 3 - D modeling tools.

In it, we explored how players can become immersed in game worlds by taking control (agency) of avatars (your digital on - screen representation), and how that affects people's ability to be empathetic.

However, the lab is a virtual setting — the classroom is projected on a screen — and the students are avatars, with personalities similar to their real - life student counterparts.

The center portion displays a multi-functional screen displaying navigation, SYNC details and a life - like custom avatar to help make everyday journeys more seamless and other helpful, driver - oriented options.

Youtube trailers don't be viewed in «HD» in the apps of either system as far as I can tell (I admit I didn't look hard), so that likely has something to do with it Avatar not looking so great on a 1280 wide screen.

With improved screen resolution and clarity alongside enterprise - grade security and support, the HDX is the avatar of Amazon's retail prowess.

Gazzard, A. (2009) «The Avatar and the Player: Understanding the Relationship Beyond the Screen», in Proceedings of VS - GAMES09, Coventry, UK, March 2009.

In fact, a resurging property boom in Australia, particularly in Melbourne, is likely to have a greater effect on Reading's near term market value than Avatar, Alice, Shrek or anything else on the silver screen.

I've just left the air - conditioned theater from a screening of «Avatar.»

On your screen is basically a boring looking version of Google Maps and your avatar, who has incredibly shallow customisation.