Archive for the 'Avatars' Category

Mitch Kapor: Minority Report Interfaces On The Way

Friday, February 15th, 2008

As reported last year on the MJ in Getting Inside the Simulation, 3D camera driven interfaces are already available. What Kapor is talking about is widespread adoption
“Look at Minority Report,” Kapor said. “I’m here to say that (technology is) going to be real in the next (few) years.”In fact, he said, he predicted that [...]

2008 - The Year of Machinima

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Over at GriotVision I talk about how machinima will break out next year as a prelude to the mega-3D films that will start rolling out in 2009. This will be a significant milestone for the meshverse so here are some related links:
Machinima Mesh
Movie Mesh

Body Language - Moving Closer

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

One feature I want for my Next Generation Avatar is a step closer now that Croquet developers at the University of Minnesota have released the code for the motion capture based avatar animation seen on this video.

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