OUR VISION

We have been waiting quite for long time here at ISN Virtual Worlds, for the coming out of the movie AVATAR. I remember my AVATAR talking about this movie with my AVATAR friend Bitser Scarfiotti back in 2007. Some blogs and articles were already talking about the movie AVATAR at the time and off course we knew it would be an important event to raise the attention of people on the “AVATAR phenomena”.
As probably most people know by now, the word AVATAR comes the Hindu religion and originally signifies a temporary body a God takes to come down to earth and perform certain tasks, that he cannot accomplish in his “God form”. The meaning we mostly know of, on the other hand, is the digital image of an AVATAR, in other words our identities in a 3D Virtual World or Virtual Simulation Environment. In recent years, with the birth of online virtual worlds, the AVATAR has become our digital alter ego, the virtual representation of ourselves, at times similar to us as we are in reality, at other times a representation of our beings, more than our bodies. We can use our AVATAR to enter any virtual dimension. We use our AVATAR to work, to meet other AVATARS, to dance with other AVATARS and listen to music together, to watch a movie in a virtual theatre with other AVATARS and share feelings and opinions, with AVATARS as an AVATAR. Today our AVATARS allow us to connect to a new dimension. Through our AVATAR, it is for us the first time we are truly immersed in virtual reality, begin to experience its rules, dynamics. Even its timing which in virtuality can be a different dimension too. Our AVATARs are not only a projection of ourselves, but our digital extension becoming a link to a new world, which can sometimes follow the rules of the world we know, or invent itself in a parallel dimension, that we can experiment only through our AVATAR.
On the other hand, the way the meaning of the word AVATAR is conceived in the movie AVATAR, is slightly different from our digital representation of ourselves. It is in fact more in line with the original meaning of the word AVATAR in the Hindu culture. In the movie, the AVATAR is used to enable humans to reach another planet and survive in its atmospheric conditions and to send soldiers to fight in form of AVATARs. It’s interesting to note how in the movie, the color of the skin of the AVATAR is an intense blue, just like in many Indian and Hindu representations of the God Krishna, taking human form through an AVATAR, with a blue skin.

Krishna AVATAR

As an AVATAR is used to bring humans to live on another planet, the more “terrestrial” and actual version of our AVATAR, if not on another planet, can brings us into a new dimension for working and interacting with people and projects we work with.

If you have not tried to be an AVATAR yet, don’t lose time and experience a truly immersive environment, click HERE to create your AVATAR and begin your experience!

Simulation environments and online collaboration and interaction systems in 3D, are the future environment where we will perform a large part of our activities every day.

Prepare you AVATARS! Internet is already becoming 3D.