Title :
Avatars a` la Snow Crash
Author :
Allbeck, Jan M. ; Badler, Norman I.
Author_Institution :
Center for Human Modeling & Simulation, Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
We analyzed Neal Stephenson´s novel “Snow Crash” for all references to avatars. This analysis is documented in this paper, including a comparison of the Snow Crash avatars to the current state of real-time virtual human research. The avatar characteristics discussed include appearance, clothing and attachments, ethnicity, locomotion, body actions, forms of communication, emotion and personality
Keywords :
literature; virtual reality; Metaverse; Neal Stephenson; Snow Crash; appearance; attachments; avatars; body actions; clothing; communication forms; emotion; ethnicity; locomotion; novel; personality; real-time virtual human; Avatars; Chromium; Clothing; Computer crashes; Graphics; Humans; Planets; Snow; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Animation 98. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8541-7
DOI :
10.1109/CA.1998.681903
