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Avatar -embodied 3D persona with speech skills. Ready to create your own Avatar? Avatars are commonly known as computer (animated) characters representing a real life person, concept or artificial entity. Quite often this term is used to address human-like online assistants representing organizations, commercial firms and brands. These virtual assistants are able to answer questions and perform tasks through conversational dialogs with humans. Typical usage Avatars are the visual representations of real or artificial intelligence in the virtual world. It is hard to draw a line between intelligent avatars which have conversational AI skills and act dynamically, and on the other hand static unintelligent avatars which are just a snapshot taken at a certain point in time. The technology for creating avatars is evolving at a high rate, especially our ability to reproduce human beings. One of the events demonstrating innovations in speech technology is SpeechTEK Europe, which focuses on speech technologies, speech biometrics and voice user interaction design. Background .
3D robots This past August we learned of a new specialized 3D print service under development, My Robot Nation. It specializes (obviously) in printed robots. The service works much like 2D web-based composition tools and games, where you select parts from a library to build up your robot. My Robot Nation provides a variety of stickers, colors and other bits (rivets, plugs, eyes, hearts, switches, hats, etc.) you may attach to your personalized robot. They don't explicitly say, but it appears they're using a ZCorp color 3D printer behind the scenes to produce these cute robots. Once you've finished designing your robot you select a size (ranging from 2 inches high for USD$17.99 to a big but not huge six inches at USD$169.00) and hit print.
RoboHash Xface: Main Page 3D Models As readers will know, any new 3D print service these days must specialize in a niche to succeed, and Moddler has chosen digital entertainment. From their site: Moddler is the premier 3d printing company for today's digital entertainment creators, including digital film studios, visual effects companies, video game companies, and individual artists. We specialize in turning your digital models into incredibly detailed physical models to be used as maquettes for design validation, high-end swag for clients or team members, or physical props. These models are printed through a digital process, just like inkjet printing, that results in the creation of very fine detail with a high degree of accuracy. Moddeler offers a 20 x 15 x 8 inch build envelope, which is fairly large. Via Moddler
Pimp My Profizzle Face Tracking 3D-WPF C# Sample Kinect for Windows 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 When you run this sample, you see the following: The scene in front of the camera is rendered. Once your skeleton is tracked, a mask is rendered hovering over the face and the mask tracks the movement of the player's face through the scene. This is similar to the Face Tracking Basics-WPF C# Sample. In addition, this sample applies the color data to the triangles in the mask so the mask is rendered using the person's face. To run a sample you must have the Kinect for Windows SDK installed. If you need help loading a sample in Visual Studio or using Visual Studio to compile, run, or debug, see Opening, Building, and Running Samples in Visual Studio.
Kids and 3D Printers A technology center in Wahpeton, North Dakota, USA, now offers students the use of a 3D printer. We're quite certain this isn't the only school doing so, but we suspect a trend is beginning. In fact, it isn't the only one. Thorpe St Andrew School in Norfolk, UK is also installing a 3D printer, specifically to: offer cutting edge design and technology to its students As more and more schools expose students to 3D printing, we will soon see a wave of young adults entering business who are quite familiar with the concept of 3D printing. Via Norwich Evening News and Wahpeton Daily News Create A Face Online! Make Your Own Character Online, Create A Virtual Person. Your Caricature, Caricature Drawings From Photos. Are there human 3D models/libraries