But South Korean technology has made progress since then in creating virtual characters.

但自那以来，韩国在创造虚拟角色方面的技术取得了进步。

Experts say the COVID-19 pandemic aided the growth of such virtual characters.

专家表示，新冠疫情推动了这类虚拟角色的增加。

The viewers saw virtual characters making absurd poses, sinking into the ground, or simply stopping to respond.

观众看到虚拟运动员摆出荒谬的姿势、（半个身子）沉入地下，或者只是停下来挨打。

Yeah. - Anyway, that information went to Adrian Monroe in Montreal who built a virtual character body of Charlie.

是的。- 总之，这个信息到了蒙特利尔的阿德里安·门罗那里，他创建了查理的虚拟角色身体。

For instance, a photograph of a human face and a drawing of a virtual character is excellent example of that.

例如，一张人脸图片和一张虚拟角色图片就是一个非常恰当的例子。

Pokemon Go is one example of augmented reality. It takes virtual digital characters and overlays them onto scenes from the real world.

《宝可梦GO》是一款增强现实游戏。它将虚拟数字角色叠加到现实世界的场景中。

Anyway, that information went to Adrian Monroe in Montreal who built a virtual character body of Charlie.

- 不管怎样，这些信息都交给了蒙特利尔的 Adrian Monroe，他建立了查理的虚拟角色身体。

Nonetheless, they will provide increasingly more lifelike ways of interacting with virtual characters, objects, and environments in the metaverse.

尽管如此，它们将提供越来越逼真的方式来与元宇宙中的虚拟角色、物体和环境进行交互。

" When I first saw MAVE, it was a little confusing to tell whether they were humans or virtual characters, " said Han Su-min, a 19-year-old in Seoul.

首尔19岁的韩素敏（音译）说：“当我第一次看到MAVE时，我有点分不清她们是真人还是虚拟人物。”

The tool uses a virtual character to talk with the patient whose language and speech patterns are then analyzed by the AI to look for signs of memory diseases.

该工具使用虚拟角色与患者交谈，然后人工智能分析患者的语言和语音模式，以发现记忆疾病的迹象。

For instance, we can use these skeletons to cheaply transfer the gestures of a human onto a virtual character, fall detection for the elderly, analyzing the motion of athletes, and many many others.

例如，我们可以利用这些骨架以极低的成本将人类姿势转化至虚拟人物的身上，还有老年人跌倒检测、运动员的运动分析以及其他众多领域。

Zheli, a top social app that is popular for its use of virtual characters, suspended new user registrations Sunday after being accused of violating user privacy and plagiarizing its virtual avatars' clothing designs.

因使用虚拟角色而广受欢迎的顶级社交应用“啫喱”周日暂停了新用户注册，此前该应用被指控侵犯用户隐私，剽窃其虚拟角色的服装设计。

It uses a virtual character which can be accessed on a device at home to talk to the patient whose language and speech patterns are then analyzed by AI to look for signs of memory diseases.

它使用的是一个在家里就能用设备连接的虚拟角色来与患者交谈，然后通过人工智能分析患者的语言和语音模式，来寻找记忆疾病的迹象。