IP: Re (Another) Snow Crash Prophesy Fulfilled

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Reply-To: <dakin () nationalpost com>
> From: "David Akin" <dakin () nationalpost com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> > "Rick Fulmer" <rfulmer () camden net> wrote:
> > __________
> > > Digital People with faces that are extraordinarily life-like
> > that replicate
> > > and portray human facial movements and expressions.
> > >
> > > http://www.lifefx.com/FaceOfTheInternet/index.html
>
>
> Along the same lines: I just returned from the annual Demo conference
> (http://www.demo.com) in Phoenix. Among the neatest gadgets there was some
> software from Eyematic (http://www.eyematic.com). It, too, looks like a Neal
> Stephenson invention: Your face, with all its twitches, raised eyebrows, and
> moving mouth is reproduced as an animated avatar on your correspondent's
> machine. Benefit here: No need to transmit all those high-res pixels in 30
> frames per second for a Webcam chat. Instead, you transmit the vector
> geometry of your face, which is drawn at the other end as a cartoon and then
> the Eyematic client transmits only those parts of your face or environment
> that move as you communicate. The movements are then reproduced by the
> avatar at the other end. Your avatar can look like you, Bugs Bunny, or
> Pokemon. Company says the product will be in the market by the third quarter
> of the year.
>
> Kinda cool, really, for its unique approach to solving the bandwidth issue
> for real-time rich communications.
>
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