Go listen to this immediately! Adam Pasick from Reuters interviews Second Life board chairman and software visionary Mitch Kapor. The first and biggest topic? He's working with someone to prototype a new camera that will map facial / body expressions onto Second Life avatars via the Open Source viewer.
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You know, something I've been talking about for 2 years? Something that Stephenson got down with Juanita's character in Snow Crash, released a decade and a half earlier?
To paraphrase, Mitch's prototype should help convince Linden Lab that this is a good idea to pursue. And it's only 16 months after I pitched it to Philip Rosedale at SLCC 2006.
*smug grin*
Okay, on a serious note ... I'm curious if this kind of technology is something other than "completely obvious and intuitive" as a feature for virtual worlds? Are there people out there who are surprised or write off this as "no big deal"? I'd love to debate this.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Mitch Kapor: Facial Expressions for the win!
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No big deal? This one is bigger than voice! I crave for it since October (ok, you were there long before :))
Supposed that it is accepted widely, it can change a lot in our communication, not only among residents, but between humans and their avatars. It will be interesting to watch.
(My 2L$ are here: http://metaverse.acidzen.org/2008/face-expressions )
I'd love that too... specially because the new models of the Logitech webcams do that since 2006 I believe, I always wondered if it wouldn't be very easy to use their software to integrate it with SL. Then I remembered that the avatar mesh is not really under the control of "anything" unless one hacks the client... which seems to be exactly what Mitch is proposing!
That will probably ask for a hack of the server too. There all the problems start.
whats going on with that thema now?
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