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3D Virtual character actors for animation - 3D Cartoons

A 3D Gallery by Steven Stahlberg - Among other things images and animations featuring Stephen Stahlberg's virtual actresses. Be sure to look at the "what's new" section

Ananova - Featuring a virtual newscaster

AVAtalk - RTI International - Technology that enables spoken natural language dialog with virtual humans for training applications.

bluue -- interactive emotional characters - bluue --- a company who is developing interactive digital beings with an emotional intelligence called "heart" for Handy

Boston Dynamics - Cambridge MA. Boston Dynamics is a leading provider of human simulation software and services. Its product

BOTizen - Offer virtual characters to support online customers by using natural language processing with speech capability.

Bruce M. Blumberg - He is currently starting up a new group called "Synthetic Characters" which will focus on the problem of building interactive animated characters.

C&C Creations - C & C Creations. Virtual Characters

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

Characters Improvisation - References to autonomous characters that can improvise and react to their environment.

Charismatic Intelligent Virtual Humans - CHARISMATIC is researching and designing artificial virtual humans which can take their place in virtual environments and become an interactive part of the attraction and enjoyment of using the systems.

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.

Clouds Worlds 3D Chat - A site about worlds 3d chat where you can find avatars

CMU SCS OZ Project - The Oz Project at CMU is developing technology and art to help artists create high quality interactive drama

CodeBaby - CodeBaby is a leader in web-based virtual agent technology

Computer Graphics Lab - LIG is mainly involved in computer animation and virtual reality and teaches computer graphics

Content Arts - Creating photographic virtual reality experiences for multi-media

Conversive - 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

CVSSP: 3D-Vision Virtual People - Capturing realistic models of individual people to populate virtual worlds.

Digital Humans - An evolving community for people interested in all types of applications and technologies dealing with digital humans.

DIGITAL QUTIES - A massive collection of virtual femmes and digital actresses. In japanese.

Esprit & HUMANOID: simulating virtual people - The simulation of realistic virtual humans

ESPRIT Project: HUMANOID - A Real-Time and Parallel System for the Simulation of Virtual Humans.

Georgia Tech Animation Lab - Animation Lab at Georgia Tech. We are interested in the simulation and animation of dynamic motion such as running

luminous shadows - fantasy character design - Interactive fantasy and science fiction characters

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.

noDNA virtual realtime character solutions - noDNA provides virtual characters

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.

Personalized Avatar Creation using Face Recognition - Describes research on using automatic face recognition techniques to create personalized cyberspace avatars.

Realtime virtual characters - MOTEK. Designs and produces a wide variety of 3D characters for use in VR of any format.

Responsive Virtual Human Technology Research - Advancing the complexity

textPuppet - textPuppet (together with Poser)creates speaking animated characters - it contains a high quality text-to-speech synthesizer and an automatic animation script generator. It takes text as input and automatically produces scripts and audio files for renderi

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).

Virtual Human Web Pointers - A collection of links to academic and commercial sites of developers and users of virtual humans.

Virtual Humans and Conversational Agents - Papers by Curry Guinn (RTI

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

Virtual People in a Computer World - Describes the process of creating and controlling virtual humans in a virtual world.

Virtual Reality Laboratory - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The laboratory is mainly involved in the modelling and animation of Three-Dimensional Inhabited Virtual Worlds.

Virtual Talking Characters Online - Virtual talking characters for your web page. Good way to give your site a personality and interactive presence on the web. Characters are capable of speaking up to six languages.

virtual-personality.de - virtual characters by interiorsphere

Virutal Mermaids - Collection of 3DCG women including Yuki Terai