Is "virtual reality" linked with "virtual human"? Give your explanations.

34. In pairs ask and answer questions based on the text " In search of a versatile virtual person".

35. You've decided to take part in the conference and prepare a presentation on the topic: "The Role of Virtual Humans in Virtual Environment Technology and Interfaces".

LISTENING

36. You are going to listen to some information about automatic modeling of virtual humans and body clothing. Before you listen, check if you know the meaning of the words: to encounter, intervention, to capture, interpolation, leverage.

37. Listen and decide whether the facts from the text are true or false.

1. The author gives preferences to two approaches of human body modeling.

2. The disadvantage of the creative methodology is that it needs considerable user intervention.

3. With the help of the reconstructive approach it is easy to change resulting models.

4. The interpolated approach is not so popular as the creative and reconstructive ones.

38. Complete the sentences.

1. Realistic human body modeling requires .........................

2. Much work has been devoted to the reconstructive approach .........................

3. Some systems use 2D images .........................

4. The third major category, interpolated modeling, .........................

39. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of the suggested approaches?

WRITING

40. Write an abstract (4-6 sentences) in English to the article "Virtual Human". You may use the suggested phrases: the article is devoted to …, this article concentrates on ..., it is shown ..., it is reported ..., it is studied ..., the results show ..., the author pays attention to ..., the author suggests ....

41. Make up 5 sentences using the different Infinitive Constructions.

42. Write a composition on the topic "A virtual necessity". Use phrasal verbs from exercise 21.

PROBLEM-SOLVING

43. Read and say if the statements true or false (see Problem-Solving to UNIT 2).

Problem-solving Are these statements true or false?

1. More than 1,800 years ago, the Greek physician Galen came up with a model for how the human body works, but he was wrong.

2. The idea of creating the Virtual humanity was suggested by representatives of the US Marine Corps in 1997.

3. The Virtual Human will be a computational model of an individual that contains the knowledge base to describe mental health to the extent possible, disease processes, responses to chemicals in the environment, responses to stimuli, a host of other biological phenomena.

4. Easterly regards the Virtual Human as more than just a computerized person. It would be a tool to help scientists work with the vast amount of information on human biology that scientists have massed.

5. Clay Easterly developed the virtual heart.

6. The scientists have difficulties with modeling a human neuron.

7. The created organs can be used for developing diseases, then treating it with virtual drugs.

8. The developers hope to pipe the Virtual Human’s output into a total-immersion environment in which researchers can explore inside the body.

9. The scientists work separately and don't want to synthesize this vast data.

10. The representatives of the US Marine Corps wanted to test experimental non-lethal weapons.