Fred Davis, a former industry journalist, said successful communities will likely become more common when builders work out technology problems. For instance, avatars could become more realistic with the development of cameras that will break down users gestures and expressions into digital animation. This will allow avatars to look and act more like people, without computers having to deal with the bandwidth involved in full video. Davis, head of the Computer Institute , a San Francisco group seeking support to build a computer museum in the city, disputes the term virtual reality. We seem to have come into a place in society where we have a duality between ourselves and technology.
Technology is a biological byproduct of the human race.
The second annual Avatars 97 Conference was produced by the Multimedia Department of San Francisco State University and the Contact Consortium , a group that studies and promotes virtual worlds.