This Pod Makes Lifelike 3-D Avatars for VR

Timmu Tõke envisions a future where a realistic 3-D avatar of himself meets up in a virtual world to interact with other avatars that look just like the people from home.

Controlling an avatar with your brain

The Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL) at the Interdisciplinary Center Israel, is developing a system for controlling a virtual or physical body using only the

Researchers use virtual-reality avatars to create 'out-of-body' experience

Volunteers experienced the virtual bodies as if they were their own, with possible applications in computer games or to transport people digitally to other locations