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Your Voice is Puppeteering an Avatar in my Brain | Virtual Body Language
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Thoughtful meanderings through the faceless internet. Check out the book. Your Voice is Puppeteering an Avatar in my Brain. I have been having a lot of video chat conversations recently with a colleague who is on the opposite side of the continent. Now that we have been “seeing” each other on a weekly basis, we have become very familiar with each other’s voices, facial expressions, gesticulations, and so on. Sometimes we prefer to just turn off the video and stick with voice. According to gestural theory...
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High Fidelity: Body Language through “Telekinesics” | Virtual Body Language
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Thoughtful meanderings through the faceless internet. Check out the book. High Fidelity: Body Language through “Telekinesics”. Human communication demonstrates the usual punctuated equilibria. Of any natural evolutionary system. From hand gestures to grunts to telephones to email and beyond, human communication has not only evolved, but splintered off into many modalities and degrees of asynchrony. This company is bringing together several new technologies to make this happen. And when I say “realt...
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Avatar-Centric Communication
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Below is Chapter 4 from the book:. I recall sitting down to write the very first line of code for the prototype. My first goal was to get something to show up on the screen that represented the user. "Start simple", I thought. "This is going to be a long evolution". To represent the user, I created an upright wireframe cylinder standing on the horizontal grid (it was so crude that it had only six sides! How should the user tell the cylinder to move forward, or turn? Should the viewpoint stay fixed in spa...
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How Does Artificial Life Avoid the Uncanny Valley? | Virtual Body Language
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Thoughtful meanderings through the faceless internet. Check out the book. How Does Artificial Life Avoid the Uncanny Valley? The following creepy humanoids provide ample reason to fear artificial intelligence:. This is just one example of virtual humans that would be appropriate in a horror movie. There are many others. Here’s my question: why are there so many creepy humans in computer animation? Simulated body language can steer clear of the uncanny valley. With some simple rules of thumb:. Was invente...
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About Jeffrey Ventrella | Avatar Puppetry
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Alphabetizing and Virtualizing Body Language for the Internet. Jeffrey Ventrella is the author of the book, Virtual Body Language. He was Principle Inventor and co-founder of the virtual world, There.com, and was the initial programmer/designer of the avatar communication system. He also invented Avatar Puppeteering. At Linden Lab, and is the inventor of Second Life “Flexiprims”. Ventrella is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab. You can view Ventrella’s interactive thingies at Ventrella.com. Follow “Av...
