This category is dedicated to references to 3d virtual characters that somehow interact with humans - either via a VR interface or via chat, or other means. Ephasis is on characters which actually interact, and not just act out a script which someone would passively watch. 1. Ananova - Featuring a virtual newscaster, capable of delivering real-time on-demand news bulletins over the Internet and interactive devices. 2. C&C Creations - C & C Creations. Virtual Characters, Chatterbots and Talking Agents for your website. 3. 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. 4. Characters Improvisation - References to autonomous characters that can improvise and react to their environment. 5. CLONE3D - 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. 6. CodeBaby - 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. 7. 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. 8. Conversive, Inc. - 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. 9. CVSSP: 3D-Vision Virtual People - Capturing realistic models of individual people to populate virtual worlds. 10. DIGITAL QUTIES - A massive collection of virtual femmes and digital actresses. In japanese. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. Personalized Avatar Creation using Face Recognition - Describes research on using automatic face recognition techniques to create personalized cyberspace avatars. 14. Realtime virtual characters - MOTEK. Designs and produces a wide variety of 3D characters for use in VR of any format. 15. Responsive Virtual Human Technology NEW! - An NSF funded project led by Research Triangle Institute studying spoken language interaction with virtual characters. 16. RTI International: Avatalk NEW! - Technology that enables spoken natural language dialog with virtual humans for training applications. 17. The Bot Factory - Interactive virtual characters with voice and lip synchronization. Works with any web browser. 18. Virtual Human Web Pointers - A collection of links to academic and commercial sites of developers and users of virtual humans. 19. 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. 20. 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. 21. Virtual Reality Laboratory - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The laboratory is mainly involved in the modelling and animation of Three-Dimensional Inhabited Virtual Worlds. 22. 3D Virtual character actors for animation - 3D Cartoons, CG Animation, Virual Actors, Characters and Performers. Illustration, Design and Stop Motion animation. 23. 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. 24. 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. 25. Digital Humans - An evolving community for people interested in all types of applications and technologies dealing with digital humans. 26. Esprit & HUMANOID: simulating virtual people NEW! - 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. 27. 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. 28. i Lip Sync - Flash animated talking characters. Commercial site. Provides lip synchronising virtual host for your website. 29. luminous shadows - fantasy character design - The collected character designs and animations of johnathan darkly, featuring fantasy, science fiction and contemporary virtual actors. 30. 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. 31. 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. 32. Virtual Human Interaction Lab - 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). 33. Virtual Mermaids - Collection of 3DCG women including Yuki Terai, Kyoko Date, Lara Croft, and Kasumi and Ayane from Dead or Alive. 34. Virtual People in a Computer World - Describes the process of creating and controlling virtual humans in a virtual world. 35. virtual-personality.de - virtual characters by interiorsphere

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