Avatars

Introduction

Root of the word "Avatar" can be traced back to Sanskrit - which means -. "Physical manifestation of divinity (Cooper 309).Word with the same value as in many other Indian languages in various forms: "avatar" in Hindi and other Indian languages north; as "AVADHARAM in the South Indian languages Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu.

Hindu mythology states that there are "Avatars," Ten of Lord Vishnu - who takes on the form of various individuals from time to time to destroy evil on earth. Jesus Christ, Christianity, "Avatar," the New Testament, the Lord God of Judaism.

That word - in the form of his church - guess the meaning of "incarnation" - the body experience(Stan 356).However, in the computer world, the avatar representation of user's "alter ego" or "another person - a more or less like the image on the screen of a movie star. Start at the "user ID e-mail user, is two-dimensional icons used in internet forums, and three-dimensional characters in computer games, all the" avatars "or incarnations - graphic, pictorial representation of the user.

Virtual world

The use of this word in computer jargon goes back to 1985 a series of computer games called Ultima, character. Later avatars players name ', in 1989, the forum has been used in role-playing game called "Shadowrun", as in online role-playing game called "Habitat" . In 1992, Neal Stephenson in his novel "Snow Crash" Yahoo used to refer to the virtual bodies - in the Metaverse, a virtual reality version of the Internet.

Internet forums

On Internet forums, avatars are used for the purposes of users and their activities, personality, contribution to the forum, and also may represent different aspects of their personalities, beliefs, interests and social status in the forum.

Internet chat

Back in 1994, programs such as virtual places introduced flat GIF based avatars-which even the possibility of VoIP, but they were forced to stop due to lack of band width at the time.

In the same year, he was Cyber town who were the first who introduced the three-dimensional avatars for online chats

In 1996, Microsoft Comic Chat, released animated avatars to communicate. Also there are Instant messaging program and Yahoo and computer games

Avatars idea of computer games was first used in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). Avatars, commonly referred to as buddy icons for AIM users. Currently, avatars are used by many popular instant messaging services:

• Windows Live Messenger,

• Yahoo! Messenger,

• Google Talk,

• LJ Talk, and

• Gizmo Project.

Avatars in virtual world

We can have picture avatars on AIM, an animated avatar on Skype, or proprietary online games a lot of Wii. The word came to mean the creation / image that represents the kind of cartoon you. Avatar assigned profile that someone can change only, while satisfaction is used in some search engines (e.g., Yahoo) is designed to produce easily recognizable.

It is often assumed that the "virtual reality" of the problem with - the concept and its various technology deployment, and is apparently an oxymoron phrase - it was our understanding, or perhaps a misunderstanding ...