- Haptek - http://www.haptek.com
Home of Virtual Friends - synthetic talking heads that are able to morph into different shapes, talk via scripts, or act as virtual chat proxies.
- Ananova - http://www.ananova.com/
Featuring a virtual newscaster, capable of delivering real-time on-demand news bulletins over the Internet and interactive devices.
- Bruce M. Blumberg - http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/bruce/
He is currently starting up a new group called "Synthetic Characters" which will focus on the problem of building interactive animated characters.
- Computer Graphics Lab - http://ligwww.epfl.ch/~thalmann/
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.
- A 3D Gallery by Steven Stahlberg - http://www.optidigit.com/stevens/
Among other things images and animations featuring Stephen Stahlberg's virtual actresses. Be sure to look at the "what's new" section
- Characters Improvisation - http://www.red3d.com/cwr/characters.html
References to autonomous characters that can improvise and react to their environment.
- Virtual Idol - http://www.tcp.com/doi/seiyuu/books/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.
- CVSSP: 3D-Vision Virtual People - http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Research/VSSP/3DVision/VirtualPeople/
Capturing realistic models of individual people to populate virtual worlds.
- Esprit & HUMANOID: simulating virtual people - http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/results/res_area/hpnc/hpnc20.htm
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.
- DIGITAL QUTIES - http://www.magiccity.ne.jp/~link/3D/
A massive collection of virtual femmes and digital actresses. In japanese.
- Virtual Human Web Pointers - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~badler/vhlist.html
A collection of links to academic and commercial sites of developers and users of virtual humans.
- Boston Dynamics - http://www.bdi.com/
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.
- noDNA virtual realtime character solutions - http://www.nodna.com
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.
- BOTizen - http://www.botizen.com
Offer virtual characters to support online customers by using natural language processing with speech capability.
- textPuppet - http://www.textpuppet.com
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.
- Responsive Virtual Human Technology Research - http://www.rvht.info
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.
- AVAtalk - RTI International - http://www.rti.org/avatalk
Technology that enables spoken natural language dialog with virtual humans for training applications.
- Virtual Humans and Conversational Agents - http://www.cs.duke.edu/~cig/interests/avatars.html
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.
- Georgia Tech Animation Lab - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/animation/
Animation Lab at Georgia Tech. We are interested in the simulation and animation of dynamic motion such as running, diving, and bicycling.
- Center for Human Modeling and Simulation - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~graphics/
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.
- Virtual Reality Laboratory - http://vrlab.epfl.ch/
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The laboratory is mainly involved in the modelling and animation of Three-Dimensional Inhabited Virtual Worlds.
- NYU Media Research Lab - http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/projects/improv/
The MRL's Responsive Animated Character research involves applying Prof. Ken Perlin's noise techniques from image rendering to character movement.
- CMU SCS OZ Project - http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/oz.html
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.
- bluue - http://www.bluue.com
A company who is developing interactive digital beings with an emotional intelligence called "heart" for Handy, TV and Internet. It shows various character examples, TV and movieprojects.
- Conversive, Inc. - http://www.conversive.com/
Conversive's interactive knowledge management solutions complement existing applications and give them new functionality. Our proprietary Conversive Application Platform acts as a natural language interface layer for web pages, intranets and other digital information applications and provides users with coherent, flexible access to vital information. Knowledge is seamlessly accessible from any platform. Real answers are only a simple question away. Start the Dialog(sm) with your users now.
- Virtual Human Interaction Lab - http://vhil.stanford.edu
The mission of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University is to understand the dynamics and implications of interactions among people in immersive virtual reality simulations (VR).
- Realtime virtual characters - http://www.e-motek.com
MOTEK. Designs and produces a wide variety of 3D characters for use in VR of any format.
- C&C Creations - http://www.frontiernet.net/~dlcowart/main.html
C & C Creations. Virtual Characters, Chatterbots and Talking Agents for your website.
- CLONE3D - http://www.clone3d.com
Personality capture and automated animation. A new media site that specializes in real time 3d characters: the content is designed in the style of pin-up with the intent to bring high technology and art together with comedy.
- CodeBaby - http://www.codebaby.com
CodeBaby is a leader in web-based virtual agent technology, and enables corporations to integrate state-of-the-art, interactive 3D characters with their websites and online services.
- Digital Humans - http://www.digitalhumans.com
An evolving community for people interested in all types of applications and technologies dealing with digital humans.
- Virutal Mermaids - http://virtualmermaids.free.fr/
Collection of 3DCG women including Yuki Terai, Kyoko Date, Lara Croft, and Kasumi and Ayane from Dead or Alive.
- Clouds Worlds 3D Chat - http://members.lycos.co.uk/ladycloud/
A site about worlds 3d chat where you can find avatars, textures, costum worlds, friends from worlds, links.
- MIT Media Lab Synthetic Characters - http://characters.media.mit.edu/
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.
- Televirtual Avatar Technology - http://www.televirtual.com/avatar.htm
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.
- The Bot Factory - http://www.thebotfactory.com
Interactive virtual characters with voice and lip synchronization. Works with any web browser.
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