We have one (possibly 2) student knowledgeable in OGRE and we'd like to
coordinate
with your facial animation work starting in May - so as not to duplicate
efforts. Our
interest is in seeing if we can use the RealXtend viewer for interacting
with our
cultural island, which is currently in Second Life but will be ported to
OpenSim.
Related questions for you and the realxtend group:
1) Is voice supported? Jani mentioned this in a Cyber post, I think,
but when I
press on the voice button in the RealXtend client, it doesn't show
my avatar
as "speaking".
2) Are there good solutions for Text-to-Speech (TTS) and speech recognition
in the open source domain? One of our research groups here uses Dragon
Naturally Speaking for the latter through the commercial SDK.
Thanks.
-p
Tony Manninen wrote:
> Facial animation and webcam tracking for realXtend is something LudoCraft is
> working on at the moment. There are some interesting developments, but also
> huge challenges in terms of the work required.
>
> We'll keep you posted as soon as we have some concrete results.
>
> Cheers,
> Tony
>
> LudoCraft Ltd.
> http://www.ludocraft.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of ATupper
> Sent: 25. maaliskuuta 2009 7:42
> To: realXtend
> Subject: [realXtend] Re: facial animation
>
>
> Agreed. As a professional animator interested in using the SL/RX
> platform for machinima, I'm somewhat appalled by what currently passes
> for face animation. As was mentioned on another thread, it would be
> immensely useful to use computer vision software to allow for real-
> time face expression tracking. Also on the machinima side of things,
> the lack of any real controls over the hands is another sticking
> point. Its hard to get nuanced performances out of avatars with hands
> which essentially have the articulation level of someone with
> extremely severe arthritis.
>
>
>
> >
>
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