James Wagner Au (aka Hamlet Au) bumped into our Abi chatbot when visiting our sim recently and wrote a lovely piece about her in New World Notes.
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Cyber Extruder generates a face image for avatars like those in SL from a normal 2D photo of your face. Time to build my "real" self in SL!
Software generates video news bulletins - tech - 24 October 2006 - New Scientist Tech
Dynamic news from RSS feeds delivered by avatar. Nice.
Nice blog about 3D worlds (of which more soon). Pity there's no RSS feed.
Spoke too soon. The whole site is actually an RSS feed put through a rendering programme (though I don't know why they didn't just use CSS or XSLT. )
Great Idea, a virtual library in SL linked to real-world reference sources. One of the other contenders for the Talis library mash-up.
My Digital Double: An Audience with Suzanne Vega
How did I miss this? Suzanne Vega becoming the first artist to perform as an Avatar in Second Life, and doing The Queen and the Soldier - probably her best song.
HumanML, the Human Markup Language, looks like it could be a successor to the earlier idea of VHML - the Virtual Human Markup Language. It would be great to pass expressive cues from the chatbot engine to an avatar.
umanify: the human face of technology
Animated 2D photos. A bit spooky like all photo-realistic avatars; for them to work they really have got to be very very good. Will be sticking with Sitepal for the moment.
