This brand new instrument could be also useful for other things. For example, why not show clients what their silhouette could be like if they ate healthy food and were active? It could be an incentive to change their lifestyle!
Allegiance between virtual world and reality
The fact that the virtual world could influence real life has already been demonstrated by a study published by the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. The research shows how an overweight avatar can help people loose excess weight.
"We created a variety of environments where an overweight avatar walks on a treadmill or buys healthy food. The clip was then showed for four weeks to a group of eight overweight women and the result was the women losing up to 1.5 kilos in a month," explain Antonio Giordano and Giuseppe Russo, who created the clip.
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