A Wide Array of Goodies

Below you'll find a vast store of information about V-humans and associated agent technologies in general. Most of the sites have link pages, ultimately these will take you to hundreds of related sites. As you know, links come and links go. If you run into problems, please report any dead links to V-people@ordinarymagic.com Also if you find a great site that you feel should be here, send a note to the above e-address.

General V-human Resources

BioVirtual This is the place to get amazing photoperimeter head sculpting software: http://www.biovirtual.com/

Caligari, Inc. is the producer of trueSpace a fine intermediate priced, professional 3D animation suite that will handle character design: http://www.caligari.com/

Di-o-Matic is Laruent Abecassis' company . It's a great source for superior 3D human animation tools: http://www.di-o-matic.com/

Hash, Inc provides the absolute best value in 3D character animation software on the planet: http://www.hash.com/

Discreet produces 3DS Max one of the finest 3D animation suites as well as all sorts of professional cinema tools: http://www.discreet.com/

Alias/ Wavefront is another great source for advanced 3D Human sculpting and animation software including MAYA: http://www.aliaswavefront.com/

FineArt This is a fine resource for reference photography including front and sideview human heads: http://www.fineart.sk/

3D resources This is Peter Levius‘s site where you can join and download high quality reference heads and bodies for your 3D character design: http://www.3d.sk/

Extempo Here's Barbara Hayes-Roth's company. She's a pioneer in this field. It's a place to have custom virtual human applications built for your company. http://www.extempo.com/

Yapanda This is the company that built our experimental V-human engine they have many interesting products for consumers and corporations: http://www.yapanda.com/

Talkie Incorporated is a great place to have professional virtual hosts built for your company. They have a great team: http://www.talkie.com/

Face2face is a digital animation company that is offering talking heads for cell phones: http://www.f2f-inc.com/

EC Marketing Alliances is a place that will support your on-line business efforts including providing virtual human web hosts. Support. http://www.ecimarketingalliances.com/conversdemo.htm#

Microsoft Agent Resources

Microsoft Agent Headquarters: www.microsoft.com/msagent

The Agentry with lots of characters: http://www.agentry.net/

MSAgent World , here you'll find more characters and resources: msagentworld.tripod.com/

Abhisoft , agent applications and utilities: www.abhisoft.net/

Dwacon entertainment applications of MS Agents: www.dwacon.com/

News 1 st More entertainment: www.news1st.org.uk/

WebXtractions MS Agent plug-ins for interactive web pages: webxtractions.com/agent/Main.htm

Taylor Made a site with guided MSAgent setup, applications and a selection of free characters: www.brain.com.pk/~taylormade/MSAgent.html

Microsoft Agent SDK : download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/8/2183fc41-9313-4624-9e9e-25d26d0f7e19/docs.zip

Microsoft's official character editor: download.microsoft.com/download/d/f/a/dfa1b90c-f879-4b80-a31d-06924121d9c6/ace.exe

Aldos Tools where you'll find much useful MS Agent information and resources: www.aldostools.com/msagent.html

Bryndi's Software , If you get stuck with Agent, here's a site with step by step instructions: http://www.brindys.com/agents/

Note several of the above sites have links to the MS Agent Ring where you'll find additional demonstrations and resources.

A.L.I.C.E. Resources and Demo Sites

ALICE AI Foundation Headquarters: http://www.alicebot.org/

Dave who teaches English as a second language, (ESL.): www.alicebot.org/dave.html

C.L.A.U.D. I.O. V-person who demonstrates personality probing: www.alicebot.org/claudio.html

Steven Spielberg's AI site demonstrates an ALICE implementation: aimovie.warnerbros.com/

Free AIML software applications and source code: www.alicebot.org/downloads

The TAO of AIML seminar: www.alicebot.org/seminar

The Elements of AIML Style by Richard S. Wallace ($): The Elements of AIML Style

Oddcast site for V-people talking heads called [V]hosts: http://www.oddcast.com/

Chat with Lauren the Divabot : pandora.franz.com/pandora/talk-oddcast?botid =f6d4afd83e34564d

Cyber Ivar an example of an ALICE powered information agent: www.jaczone.com/cyberivar/

MiA a German example powered by ALICE . She's a bank information bot: www-2.1822direkt.com/botroot/disclaimer.htm

John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project as mentioned in the book: triumphpc.com/johnlennon/index.shtml

Learn a little Mohawk language at Onkwehonwehneha: www.onkwehonwe.com/

Get ispired about the possibilities in Home Control with Steve Prior at: smarthome.geekster.com/

Poser Sites

Poser sites come and go quickly, so if you get a dead link please let us know by emailing to vperson@ordinarymagic.com .

Official Poster Site Here you can purchase the latest version of Poser and visit their many resources sites: http://www.curiouslabs.com/

Renderocity is a wonderful resource and they sponsor a webring as well. http://www.renderosity.com

Kozaburo's Poser Works hosts Digital Babes where you'll find the finest transmapped hair downloads and many examples of superb Poser art from the incomparable Kozaburo Takahashi. http://www.vowel.or.jp/~kozaburo/

Ellie Morin is one great talent in the Poser world. Her Art of Spirit site is a must visit. She captures faces and poses with exceptional reality. http://www.artofspirit.org/

Infinitee Designs This is Ralph Hawke Manis‘s site and it does feature a few nude studies, but it is a tasteful site and features great Poser artists as well as tutorials to help get you started. http://www.infinitee-designs.com/

GrayLight Poser Archives is a repository of many Poser resources from geometry to poses. http://www.greylight.com/poser.html

3DNerd is a place with lots of resources and tons of skimpy female clothing, so be forewarned. http://www.nerd3d.com/nerd3d.htm

PoserWorld is a commercial site where you can get reasonably priced Poser goodies: http://poserworld.com/

3D Commune is a 3D community with lots of Poser assets available. http://www.3dcommune.com/

Runtime DNA is a great spot to find lots of Poster links and inexpensive products for creating killer characters. http://host1.bondware.com/~syydr/

On-line Papers and Research

CiteSeer is the premiere location for finding just about any research on Virtual Humans you might find interesting. I've listed a number of studies in my Bibliography, but be creative and do some searches on your own. This is an amazing resource.

CiteSeer , NEC- sponsored on-line repository of technical papers : Contains most of the technical references in my Bibliography . http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs

Publications on facial expression: http://www.ri.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/tech_reports.cgi

Research on face recognition and analysis assembled by Keith Price : http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/people853.html

On-line papers on consciousness compiled by David Chalmers: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/online.html

Tears and Fears: Modeling emotions and emotional behaviors in synthetic agents by Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella : http://www.ict.usc.edu/~gratch/agents01-emotion.pdf

Synchronous Firing and Its Influence on the Brain's Electromagnetic Field Evidence for an Electromagnetic Field Theory of Consciousness by Johnjoe McFadden : http://www.surrey.ac.uk/qe/PDFs/cemi_theory paper.pdf

Showface MPEG-4 Compatible Face Animation Framework by Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh : http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~alia/Multimedia/cgim.pdf

A Survey of Knowledge Acquisition from Natural Language by Stephen Potter: http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/akt/work/stephenp/TMA%20of%20KAfromNL.pdf

Conversational Agency: The Trains-93 Dialogue Manager by David R. Traum : http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/traum96conversational.html

Sample-Based Talking-Head Synthesis by Eric Cosatto: http://www.research.att.com/~eric/papers/Thesis_Cosatto.pdf

Miscellaneous Sites of Interest to Virtual Humans enthusiasts:

Kurzweil AI: This is the best site I know of to stay abreast of new developments in the fields on strong AI, nanotechnology, etc: http://www.kurzweilai.net/

Responsive Virtual Human Technology: Responsive virtual human technology (RVHT) is used in diverse fields (computer generated forces, manufacturing, medicine, theater, and only recently for interaction skills training. This company has been doing some interesting work in this arena www.rvht.info

Haptek: This company offers a 3D realtime animated face system reminescent of the BioVirtual system. They've been in the business a long time so I assume it's a good one. I've not tried it yet. http://www.haptek.com/

Dr. Gregory Stock's Site : Here you'll find up-to-date information on the redesign of human beings: http://research.mednet.ucla.edu/pmts/Stock.htm

Stuart Hameroff's Web site : where you'll find loads of information on Quantum Consciousness: http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/hameroff

Botspot : One of the best resources on the Web for intelligent agent technology: http://www.botspot.com/

Chatbot Friends: a vast number of text-bot examples, contests, and links: http://www.chatbotfriends.com/

AIBits is a large repository of information and links about AI and NLP: www.chatbotfriends.com/links.html

Oregon Health and Science University Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Singing Voice Information: cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tts/main.html

Acroname , Inc. Smart, programmable robot kit to experiment with: www.acroname.com/robotics/info/PPRK/PPRK.html

Android Head Projects with many links including a link to David Ng's animatronic head: www.androidworld.com/prod04.htm

Visage Technologies A PDF file explaining MPEG-4 character and face animation: wwwalt.ldv.ei.tum.de/conferences/digital_behaviour/DigitalBehaviour_FBA.pdf

Personality Forge on-line bot design and hosting location with set-up instruction: www.personalityforge.com/

Leo, a bot that learns from your conversational input: www.barc0de.demon.co.uk/leo/

N.I.C.O.L.E. (Nearly Intelligent Computer Operated Language Examiner) an interesting open source learning bot. nicole.sourceforge.net/index.htm

Alimbot an experiment if showing sensitive human-like responses. An ActiveX control is available for embedding this intelligent character into applications. faizulwahid.tripod.com/alimbot /

Simon Laven's Web site . He's the originator of BotSpot. Lots of intelligent agent resources www.simonlaven.com/

ATT Labs Erik Cosatto's Interactive demonstration of advanced Virtual Human display Developed at ATT Labs. vir2elle.com

Ellie. She's a very sensitive young woman who can become offended if you don't treat her right. elizabrain.netfirms.com/cgi-bin/EBMOD-cgi.pl?bot = ellie

Paolo Vacirca is the head of Paolo Entertainment and has provided us with his adultish Paula character. Visit his site for the latest news and version updates. http://www.paoloentertainment.com/

JDS Technologies Star Gate Operation Manual Winevm Event Manager Programming Guide Revision C Everything you need to know about home control with X10, infrared, microwave, etc., using the Star Gate system from JDS http://www.jdstechnologies.com/

3DLinks is an excellent and vast resource for just about anything in 3D design and animation. Give it a look. http://www.3dlinks.com/

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