If you aren't satisfied with your horrid social skills, honed to perfection by hours and hours of online game play.  Here is a perfect way to improve your girl protection factor by +4, your dorkiness by +9 and your heat exhaustion +3. [linky]

The virtual communities created by online games have provided us with a new medium for social interaction and communication. Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment.

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