Posts Tagged ‘Virtual Worlds’

matt - Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Motion Capture-based Virtual Game Teaches Teens About Sexual Abstinence…Um What?!?

Sometimes innovations in technology make you scratch your head on how that technology is being used.  Fox News has a report on a project from  the University of Central Florida that uses an avatar based game to teach teens about sex.  Teens wear motion capture suits and then are put in virtual social situations (via their digital avatar) to learn how to deal with them.  Yes, this is real and not a joke.  I’ve embedded the video below so you can see for yourself….

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