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IP: VIRTUAL HUMANS ON THE NETfrom INNOVATION
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 20:30:27 -0400
Matsushita Electric has developed new computer graphics software for creating animated virtual humans for use in Internet chat rooms. Currently, chat room occupants must make do with crudely designed "avatars" to represent themselves, but Matsushita's new technology imparts more human characteristics and allows the user to control its life-like movements, even to make it dance to music, using a "time stamp" that automatically adjusts the speed of the computer graphics rendering to the tempo of the tune. The company has submitted the technology to the VRML Consortium for consideration as an industry standard for 3-D animation. (TechWire 30 Jul 97) http://www.techweb.com/wire/
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