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Ready Player One
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...his famous OASIS avatar, Anorak—a tall, robed wizard with a slightly more handsome version of the adult Halliday's face (minus the eyeglasses).
p. 5.8 *

avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
Anorak is dressed in his trademark black robes, with his avatar's emblem (a large calligraphic letter "A") embroidered on each sleeve.
p. 5.8

avatar = a digital representation of a computer-user
For over a decade, the only thing posted there had been a short looping animation that showed his avatar, Anorak, sitting in a medieval library, hunched over a scarred worktable, mixing potions and poring over dusty spellbooks, with a large painting of a black dragon visible on the wall behind him.
p. 7.2
Then, on the evening of February 11, 2045, an avatar's name appeared at the top of the Scoreboard, for the whole world to see.
p. 9.1
As soon as I was old enough to wear a visor and a pair of haptic gloves, my mom helped me create my first OASIS avatar.
p. 15.8
My avatar materialized In front of my locker on the second floor of my high school—the exact spot where I'd been standing when I'd logged out the night before.
p. 27.1
I reached up and tapped the stack of textbooks on the locker's top shelf and they vanished, then reappeared in my avatar's item inventory.
p. 27.7
Aside from my textbooks, my avatar had only a few meager possessions: a flashlight, an iron shortsword, a small bronze shield, and a suit of banded leather armor.
p. 27.7
I'd designed my avatar's face and body to look, more or less, like my own.
p. 28.1
My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller.
p. 28.1
The school's strictly enforced dress code required that all student avatars be human, and of the same gender and age as the student.
p. 28.2

avatars = digital representations computer-users
No giant two-headed hermaphrodite demon unicorn avatars were allowed.
p. 28.3
You could give your OASIS avatar any name you liked, as long as it was unique.
p. 28.3

avatar = a digital representation of a computer-user
Your avatar's name was also your e-mail address and chat ID, so you wanted it to be cool and easy to remember.
p. 28.4
Celebrities had been known to pay huge sums of money to buy an avatar name they wanted from a cyber-squatter who had already reserved it.
p. 28.4
When I'd first created my OASIS account, I'd named my avatar Wade_ the_Great.
p. 28.5
But my avatar had now had the same name for over five years.
p. 28.5
On the day the Hunt began, the day I'd decided to become a gunter, I'd renamed my avatar Parzival, after the knight of Arthurian legend who had found the Holy Grail.
p. 28.6
Even GSS's own employees couldn't look up an avatar's true identity.
p. 28.9
When I'd first enrolled in the OASIS public school system, I was re quired to give them my real name, avatar name, mailing address, and Social Security number.
p. 29.1
Students weren't allowed to use their avatar names while they were at school.
p. 29.1
That name floated above my avatar's head whenever I was on school grounds.
p. 29.3
I began to walk my avatar down the hall, using a series of subtle hand motions to control its movements and actions.
p. 29.4
I turned and saw Todd13, an obnoxious avatar I recognized from my Algebra II class.
p. 29.9
My avatar was wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans, one of the free default skins you could select when you created your account.
p. 29.9
Todd13 scowled and his face actually turned red—a sign that he hadn't bothered to turn off his account's real-time emotion feature, which made your avatar mirror your facial expressions and body language.
p. 30.3
Prior to my transfer, my OASIS avatar had never left Incipio, the planet at the center of Sector One where new avatars were spawned at the time of their creation.
p. 31.6
Prior to my transfer, my OASIS avatar had never left Incipio, the planet at the center of Sector One where new avatars were spawned at the time of their creation.
p. 31.6

avatars = digital representations computer-users
So my avatar was stranded on Incipio.
p. 31.7

avatar = a digital representation of a computer-user
That is, until my new school e-mailed me a teleportation voucher to cover the cost of my avatar's transport to Ludus, the planet where all of the OASIS public schools were located.
p. 31.8
Their avatars all sat motionless, with their eyes closed.
p. 32.3

avatars = digital representations computer-users
It was poor OASIS etiquette to try to talk to an engaged avatar.
p. 32.4

avatar = a digital representation of a computer-user
My own avatar's eyes slid shut, but I could still see my surroundings.
p. 32.5
Windows like this one were visible to only my avatar, so no one could read over my shoulder (unless I selected the option to allow it).
p. 32.6
High-level avatars bragging about some new magic item or artifact they'd obtained.
p. 32.9

avatars = digital representations computer-users
ICI required its egg hunters, which it referred to as "oologists," to use their employee numbers as their OASIS avatar names.
p. 33.7

avatar = a digital representation of a computer-user
The company also provided your avatar with high-end armor, vehicles, and weapons, and covered all of your teleportation fares.
p. 33.9
They were all required to use the same hulking male avatar (regardless of the opera tor's true gender), with close-cropped dark hair and facial features left at the system default settings.
p. 33.9
She occasionally posted screenshots of her raven-haired avatar, and I sometimes (always) saved them to a folder on my hard drive.
p. 35.2
Her avatar had a pretty face, but it wasn't unnaturally perfect.
p. 35.3
But Art3mis's features didn't look as though they'd been selected from a beauty drop-down menu on some avatar creation template.
p. 35.4
Her face had the distinctive look of a real person's, as if her true features had been scanned in and mapped onto her avatar.
p. 35.4
In the OASIS, you usually saw one of two body shapes on female avatars: the absurdly thin yet wildly popular supermodel frame, or the top-heavy, wasp-waisted porn starlet physique (which looked even less natural in the OASIS than it did in the real world).
p. 35.5

avatars = digital representations computer-users
My view of the classroom shrank from the limits of my peripheral vision to a small thumbnail window in the lower right of my display, allowing me to monitor what was in front of my avatar.
p. 37.2

avatar = a digital representation of a computer-user
My avatar appeared just inside the "entrance," a door at the top of a carpeted staircase.
p. 37.2
Chat rooms were stand-alone simulations—temporary virtual spaces that avatars could access from anywhere in OASIS.
p. 37.4

avatars = digital representations computer-users
My avatar wasn't actually "in" the chat room.
p. 37.5

avatar = a digital representation of a computer-user
As I descended the staircase, I saw a few dozen other gunters milling around, with avatars that varied wildly in appearance.
p. 38.2

avatars = digital representations computer-users
Aech's avatar was a tall, broad-shouldered Caucasian male with dark hair and brown eyes.
p. 38.4

avatar = a digital representation of a computer-user
I'd asked him once if he looked anything like his avatar in real life, and he'd jokingly replied, "Yes."
p. 38.5

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(1) (avatar as in: her avatar in cyberspace)
a digital representation of a computer-user in a multi-user virtual reality site
(2) (avatar as in: an avatar of the god, Vishnu)
an earthly manifestation of one of the Hindu gods in human or animal form
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Avatar is commonly used as a proper noun for titles of films, books, television shows, computer games, songs, and band names.

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