The Role of Virtual Humans in Virtual Environment Technology and Interfaces, In: Frontiers of Human-Centred Computing

The purpose of this chapter is to show the importance of virtual humans in Virtual Reality and to identify the main problems to solve to create believable virtual humans.

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