Category: virtualbeings2020

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> Parasocial interaction… is described as an illusionary experience, such that media audiences interact with personas (e.g., talk show host, celebrities, fictional characters, social media influencers) as if they are engaged in…

> Healthcare * 50 companies and startups https://www.thevrara.com/blog2/2020/9/4/the-vrar-association-publishes-the-2020-healthcare-report-featuring-50-companies-and-startups-vrara-healthcare  

> Interact with your favorite characters! https://seed.online/en  

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> A NetNavi is a sentient, or semi-sentient, computer program with artificial intelligence designed to be an assistant for the operator and resides in his or her Personal Terminal, abbreviated as “PET”….

Top 8 Go Frameworks For Building Bots  

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/ibms-india-engineers-helped-make-us-open-virtual/articleshow/78018021.cms  

According to my 5th grader, kids are saying “bot” to describe something—especially a performance—as perfect. Is anyone else seeing this in the wild? — Ryan Calo (@rcalo) October 5, 2020  

#ibcorg > [Interactive Volumetric Video From The Cloud](https://www.ibc.org/technical-papers/ibc2020-interactive-volumetric-video-from-the-cloud/6517.article) (2020) * In this paper, we address interactive applications of free-viewpoint volumetric video and present a new framework for the creation of interactive volumetric…