SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp is getting into voice instant messaging with a smartphone app that uses facial tracking technology to caricature a sender's expressions. Pocket Avatars was ...

New research shows facial expressions are planned by the brain before movement, not automatic emotional reactions.

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Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

Virtual reality as a concept puts a user into a digital world. That is to say that the user is inserted into the virtual environment in a very literal sense, like in the movie Tron. However, in ...