{
  "id": 19301752,
  "title": "Perceived Agency During Agent-Avatar Control Transitions in Virtual Reality",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/perceived-agency-during-agent-avatar-control-transitions-in-virtual",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-09T15:03:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.12529v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Prior beliefs about whether a virtual human (VH) is controlled by a human or a computer can shape how users interpret and respond to its behaviour. As emerging hybrid VH systems allow control to transfer between human operators and computer programs during an ongoing interaction, it remains unclear whether perceived agency updates with the actual controller or continues to reflect users' prior…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}