Source: Futurity.org
If you saw a digital image of yourself running on a virtual treadmill, would you feel like going to the gym? Probably so, according to a study showing that personalized avatars can motivate people to exercise and eat right.
And, you are more likely to imitate the behavior of an avatar in real life if it looks like you, says Jesse Fox, a researcher at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab and doctoral student at Stanford University.
In her study, she used digital photographs of participants to create personalized avatar bodies, a service some game companies offer today.
To escape to the virtual realm, you simply slip on a helmet with screens attached in front of the eyes. You are instantly immersed in a digital room and fully surrounded by a new world, as if you are inside a video game. Cameras in the lab track an infrared light on your helmet so that images on the screen move with your head.
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