What’s the Difference Between “Being” and “Controlling” Your Video Game Avatar? PBS Idea Channel Explains

When playing a video game are you simply controlling an avatar, or are you being that avatar? It’s a complicated distinction without a true binary, but that’s not going to stop PBS Idea Channel from tackling it. When does a game’s avatar cross from being controlled into simply being? Watch and learn.

(via PBS Idea Channel)

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Glen is a comedian, writer, husband, and father. He won his third-grade science fair and is a former preschool science teacher, which is a real job.

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