Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

In real life Byron Reeves is a bald academic. But Reeves also conducts research using his avatar, a strapping man with hair. “Lots of companies already use avatars,” explains Reeves, a psychology ...

Who wouldn’t want to hack away at a dragon, bust up a village or fly through the air after a brain-melting day at work? Video games provide their players with unique multimedia forms of release, ...

Realistic avatars could soon allow us to remotely see, hear, touch and interact with faraway locations. A new global competition is charging scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators with the task of ...

This reflective essay explores how the avatars and masks we wear—both digital and emotional—shape identity, authenticity, and ...

The original Avatar follows Jake Sully, a paraplegic Marine who has been dispatched to the moon Pandora. He soon finds himself torn between following orders and protecting the people of Pandora. The ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. There’s the obvious examples: the horse-like ‘direhorses’ that the indigenous Na’vi ride, the rhino-hammerhead combination ‘titanothere’, and the ...

The Last Airbender,” lands at Popejoy Hall as a two hour live orchestral performance, bringing the show’s musical score on ...

Publisher Square Enix and developer Dontnod Entertainment released on Wednesday Life Is Strange-themed avatars for PlayStation 4. The avatars, which are now available on the PlayStation Store, range ...

The Second Life user-concurrency and user-to-user transaction figures took a bit of an unexpected jump this week, rising sharply after a year of relatively little motion. Through 2009, ...