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    Daimler Financial Services invests in New Zealand start-up Soul Machines for advanced avatars

    2018-10-18T13:06:22Z

    Image: DaimlerDaimler’s financial and mobility services division has made a strategic investment in Soul Machines, a start-up from New Zealand specializing in emotional intelligence for digital avatars. Daimler Financial Services intends to further develop these for use in its customer experience, having already worked with Soul Machines on ...

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    A virtual car manual does away with hefty tomes of yesterday

    2011-08-08T13:08:36Z

    An Avatar provides driver assistance in an Audi test vehicle (Photo: Technical University Munich)An Avatar-based virtual co-driver system (AviCoS) will do away with the multi-page driver manuals that traditionally hog the glove compartments of most cars.That's the vision of the Information Systems department of Munich's Technical University. The department has ...