“WonderSpace: Interactive 3D Animation Browser” by Naka and Mochizuki
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Entry Number: 36
Title:
- WonderSpace: Interactive 3D Animation Browser
Program Title:
- Electric Garden
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Project Affiliation:
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
Description:
WonderSpace is a browser for visualizing a virtual world in cyberspace, where lifelike creatures act according to VRML 2.0 and a specification for skeleton animation. Through human-like avatars, WonderSpace realizes voice or sound communication in multi-user cyberspace. Technical features include compression/decompression of shape data and motion data, modified motions generated from a base motion, motion connecting, and synchronizing motion with sound.
At SIGGRAPH 97, WonderSpace technology provides three interactive experiences:
1. DayDream is the virtual-life world for voice chats via human-like avatars.
2. Wonder KARAOKE is a virtual KARAOKE world with dancing avatars.
3. Wonder ShrineOmikuji is a virtual Japanese shrine with interactive avatars that seek to attain “Omikuji,” a Japanese technique for predicting the future.
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