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The avatar movie motivated audiences, but paradoxically led to depression in some audience members who wanted to live in the virtual world.

Avatar is taking a step in the direction of 3D movie experiences

I thought those of you who were wondering about other cultures using SIMS would like to see this site. The YouTube video is no longer there, but the description gives somewhat of an idea of how another culture has adapted SIMS. While most of them seem to be saris and salwars (Indian Clothing), I wonder what Aishwarya's "outfit" is. My guess is western since in most Bollywood movies you see a lot of western (and rather skanky) clothes.

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Do 3-D interfaces cause headaches? Potential trouble for immersive visuals as 3-D interfaces require unnatural eye movements which may result in visually induced motion sickness. More popcorn please.

I didn't end up with any ill effects, but I noticed that your inability to focus on objects on different levels of the 3D plane is unnerving. Often there would be interesting flora in the foreground, and because it's in 3D, you want to look at it but you can't focus your eyes on it.

I watched this last night. Pretty lousy flick, but interesting questions about avatar/person relationship in particularly immersive games.

For those of you who watched the Secret, I thought this was really interesting.