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Previously in this book the concepts of interactions, agents, avatars and virtual worlds have been discussed. In this chapter we will look closer at how the nonverbal interaction with a virtual world takes place.

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Moeslund, T.B. (2001). Interacting with a Virtual World Through Motion Capture. In: Qvortrup, L. (eds) Virtual Interaction: Interaction in Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3698-9_11

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