Author: mendicott

https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2021/08/senators-introduce-bill-help-agencies-counter-deepfakes-and-deceptive-media/184227/  

> The company also will introduce automated caption-generation and **a cartoon-style sign-language avatar**; a technology that’s been actively pursued since 2016. * #Storysign, a collaboration between Huawei, the European Union for the…

A Digital Human for Delivering a Remote Loneliness and Stress Intervention to At-Risk Younger and Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Randomised Pilot Trial (2021) * https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/31586  

Second Life: Female Head statistics  

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Donâ??t send an avatar to do a humanâ??s job: investigating adultsâ?? preferences for discussing embarrassing topics with an avatar (2021)  

>> **Rizzo** and his colleague Elizabeth Zelinski, a professor of gerontology and psychology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, are exploring ways to create a personalized “virtual caregiver support agent.”…

> havok.com/havok-ai * Today, more than half of the best-selling games are using Havok technology  

**Virtual Robots** *It occurs to me that neither Unity nor Unreal are focusing on real-time, live, dedicated 24/7 virtual robots at all. And for this, there are two basic, unmet requirements:* 1….

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