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- 3D Virtual Characters online - Web-based Virtual Characters
www.winteractive.fr/about.htm
- A 3D Gallery by Steven Stahlberg - Among other things images and animations featuring Stephen Stahlberg's virtual actresses. Be sure to look at the "what's new" section
www.optidigit.com/stevens
- Ananova - PA New Media has developed the world's first virtual newscaster, capable of delivering real-time on-demand news bulletins over the Internet and interactive devices.
www.ananova.com
- AVAtalk® - RTI International - Technology that enables spoken natural language dialog with virtual humans for training applications.
www.rti.org/avatalk
- Boston Dynamics - Cambridge MA. Boston Dynamics is a leading provider of human simulation software and services. Its product, DI-Guy, is widely used for adding lifelike humans to real-time simulations. PeopleShop, allows the rapid creation of scenarios with realistic people, and vehicles.
www.bdi.com
- BOTizen - Offer virtual characters to support online customers by using natural language processing with speech capability.
www.botizen.com
- Bruce M. Blumberg - He is currently starting up a new group called "Synthetic Characters" which will focus on the problem of building interactive animated characters.
lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/bruce
- Center for Human Modeling and Simulation - University of Pennsylvania. The Center for Human Modeling and Simulation exists to investigate computer graphics modeling and animation techniques for embodied agents, virtual humans, and their applications.
www.cis.upenn.edu/~graphics
- Characters Improvisation - References to autonomous characters that can improvise and react to their environment.
www.red3d.com/cwr/characters.html
- Charismatic Intelligent Virtual Humans - CHARISMATIC is researching and designing artificial virtual humans which can take their place in virtual environments and become an interactive part of the attraction and enjoyment of using the systems.
www.charismatic-project.com/theatre.html
- Club Ananova - dedicated fansite to cyber casting - Club Ananova - fan site dedicated to Ananova, the virtual newscaster, and all forms of interactive cyber life.
www.clubananova.com
- CMU SCS OZ Project - The Oz Project at CMU is developing technology and art to help artists create high quality interactive drama, based in part on AI technologies. This especially means building believable agents in dramatically interesting micro-worlds.
www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/oz.html
- Computer Graphics Lab - LIG is mainly involved in computer animation and virtual reality and teaches computer graphics, virtual reality, and computer vision at the diploma and the doctoral level.
ligwww.epfl.ch/~thalmann
- CVSSP: 3D-Vision Virtual People - Capturing realistic models of individual people to populate virtual worlds.
www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Research/VSSP/3DVision/VirtualPeople
- DIGITAL QUTIES - A massive collection of virtual femmes and digital actresses. In japanese.
www.magiccity.ne.jp/~link/3D
- Esprit & HUMANOID: simulating virtual people - The simulation of realistic virtual humans, who can interact within a 3-D environment and with the user, will improve the ability to create convincing human animation in the entertainment industry.
www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/results/res_area/hpnc/hpnc20.htm
- ESPRIT Project: HUMANOID - A Real-Time and Parallel System for the Simulation of Virtual Humans.
i31www.ira.uka.de/projekte/humanoid/humanoid-en.html
- Georgia Tech Animation Lab - Animation Lab at Georgia Tech. We are interested in the simulation and animation of dynamic motion such as running, diving, and bicycling.
www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/animation
- Haptek - Home of Virtual Friends - synthetic talking heads that are able to morph into different shapes, talk via scripts, or act as virtual chat proxies.
www.haptek.com
- MIT Media Lab Synthetic Characters - The goal of the Synthetic Characters Group at the MIT Media Laboratory is to understand how to build interactive characters that come alive in the eyes of the people who interact with them.
www.media.mit.edu/characters
- MSR Research Areas - Persona Project - the User Interface group at Microsoft Research is working to develop an assistant-like interface: a conversational, anthropomorphic computer character that will interact with the user to accept task assignments and report results.
www.research.microsoft.com/research/UI
- noDNA virtual realtime character solutions - noDNA provides virtual characters, event services with virtual characters, virtual characters for internet applications like knowledge based bots, technology like motion capture devices for body, fingers and face.
www.nodna.com
- NYU Media Research Lab - The MRL's Responsive Animated Character research involves applying Prof. Ken Perlin's noise techniques from image rendering to character movement.
www.mrl.nyu.edu/projects/improv
- Personalized Avatar Creation using Face Recognition - Describes research on using automatic face recognition techniques to create personalized cyberspace avatars.
www.mis.atr.co.jp/~mlyons/avatar.html
- Responsive Virtual Human Technology Research - Advancing the complexity, robustness, and realism of responsive virtual humans for interaction skills training. NSF-funded RTI-led consortium developing spoken dialog interactions with affective virtual people.
www.rvht.info
- Sheba Speaks -- the World's First Virtual Astrologer - Sheba is an example of real-time streaming 3D. With an initial download of only 130K for geometry and textures, Sheba can stream voice and animation, even over a 28K modem. Created using Pulse3D technology.
www.shebaspeaks.com
- textPuppet - textPuppet (together with Poser)creates speaking animated characters - it contains a high quality text-to-speech synthesizer and an automatic animation script generator. It takes text as input and automatically produces scripts and audio files for rendering lip-synch animations in Poser.
www.textpuppet.com
- Virtual Human Web Pointers - A collection of links to academic and commercial sites of developers and users of virtual humans.
www.cis.upenn.edu/~badler/vhlist.html
- Virtual Humans and Conversational Agents - Papers by Curry Guinn (RTI, Duke University) on virtual humans, conversational agents, synthetic characters, virtual personalities, computational models of human behavior, facial gesture, body gesture, and lip synching.
www.cs.duke.edu/~cig/interests/avatars.html
- Virtual Idol - Virtual Idol is a monthly magazine focusing on pretty female characters from games and female seiyuu. The first 8 issues of Virtual Idol came out in an irregular schedule, but it became monthly with volume 9.
www.tcp.com/doi/seiyuu/books/virtual-idol
- VIRTUAL MERMAIDS - The 3DCG Girls World Place. - Here you will find 3DCG girls(like Yuki terai, Kyoko Date, Lara Croft, Kasumi or Ayane from Dead Or Alive game, Soul Calibur, Shen Mue, Girls from Junichi Kawamoto or Steven Stahlberg, ...), Gallery of pictures, animations, information.
www.chez.com/ryumaki
- Virtual People at CCIR - Research projects at the Centre for Communication Interface Research are concerned with the virtual representation of people (whether real or synthetic agents) within computer applications as an aid to communication and interaction.
tom.ccir.ed.ac.uk/virtual_people
- Virtual People in a Computer World - Describes the process of creating and controlling virtual humans in a virtual world.
www.carnet.hr/cuc/cuc2001/papers/a2.pdf
- Virtual Personalities, Inc. - We are creating highly intelligent user interfaces featuring our proprietary, verbally interactive Verbot Technology.
www.verbots.com
- Virtual Reality Laboratory - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The laboratory is mainly involved in the modelling and animation of Three-Dimensional Inhabited Virtual Worlds.
vrlab.epfl.ch
- Virtual Talking Characters Online - This site offers Virtual talking Charaters for your web page. Good way to give your site a personality and interactive presence on the web. Characters are capable of speaking up to six languages.
www.winteractive.fr
- virtual-personality.de - virtual characters by interiorsphere
www.virtual-personality.de
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