You now don't have to hover over a friend's avatar to see additional content, for example.
The ComBOTS desktop interface is a circle of icons that appear when you hover over a friend's avatar on your desktop.
What the Bing team does note, though, is that users don't have to hover over a friend's avatar anymore to see additional content.
A voice-over announcer, shown onscreen as an avatar, provides live color commentary.
Perhaps the Confederate flag should continue to hang like an avatar of shame over South Carolina -- over America -- as a reminder of the real work we haven't even started.
During the first years of Mr. Putin's presidency, Ms. Sobchak (her full name is pronounced KSAIN-ya sub-CHACK) made herself into an avatar of Moscow's over-the-top, oil-fueled high life.
Each entry is an avatar of outrage over the depredations of power against its multifarious victims, those rendered helpless by poverty, religion, race, sexual identity or — as in the vignettes about Galileo and Isaac Babel — the simple accident of being right when the truth defined by the prevailing authority was wrong.
They can, however, easily detect and locate an Avatar of like kind over great distances with great accuracy.
It was an old-fashioned fairground ride, yes, perhaps, but massively entertaining and immersive, and a thousand times better than James Cameron's over-hyped Avatar, once spoken about in hushed, awestruck voices as a "game-changer".
Avatar Land will take over a location once occupied by the Disney character meet-and-greet area and the "Festival of the Lion King" show, which has been relocated to a new theater.
