Using virtual reality to make experiments more realistic

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 19:00 in Mathematics & Economics

Avatars are all around us: they represent real people online and colonise new worlds in the movies. In science, their role has been more limited. But avatars can be extremely useful in linguistics, new research shows. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics use virtual avatars to investigate how real people behave in interaction. […]

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