Conference Proceedings Links and ResourcesThe following is a series of links and other resources provided by speakers at the recent Avatars 97 conference. These links will provide you further background on the speakers and their work. This page was produced by Nader of Omega Media.
Session: Avatar StandardsSpeaker: Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo
Session: Embodied Avatars
Speaker: Jeffrey Goldsmith, WORDZ
Bots With Character - There's now something important for writers to do in interactive media. Build bots with character.
Session: Living WorldsSpeaker: Mitra, Mitra Internet Consulting
Living Worlds
Session: Virtual HealingSpeaker: Anthony Lloyd
BioControl
Session: Roll you own Avatar 2Speaker: Hannes Hogni Vilhjalmsson, MIT Media Laboratory
Session: Roll Your Own Avatar 2 - Your Avatar and YouSpeaker: Yannis Paniaras - Cosmo Software
Yannis Paniaras - Virtual Identities in CMC - Ioannis Paniaras' online presentation
Session: Your Avatar, Your Ident 2Speaker: Andy Best & Merja Puustinen, MEET Factory
"Conversations with Angels", a multi-user VRML 2.0 world, is the latest project created by the MEET Factory (Andy Best & Merja Puustinen). Using the latest possibilites for interactive communication on the Internet, the MEET Factory are creating virtual worlds inhabited by robots, whose characters are based on actual real people and experiences. Visitors to the site can choose an avatar with which to enter the worlds, and via a text interface, can chat with the robot personalities. There is a serial killer, a middle-aged single mother, a redneck survivalist, and a lesbian princess, amongst others, all types that the average net surfer doesn't bump into too often! By providing politically and socially provoking content, the MEET Factory aim to steer debate away from cyber hype and actually challenge real world prejudices. As visitors can also chat to each other, the hope is that a sense of community will be created as users return regularly to meet and hangout with their friends.
Princess Anne, one of the characters you can chat with at the MEET Factory
Session: ROLL YOUR OWN AVATAR IISpeaker: Stasia McGehee - Artist / Avatar Designer, Independent Consultant
Session: Virtual Environments for HealingSpeaker: Tamiko Thiel, New Media Artist
Projects Homepage
Session: Sociology and Anthropology of Virtual World CommunitiesSpeaker: T.L. Taylor, Brandeis University
Research Information
Session: The Embodied Agent CharacterSpeaker: Barbara Hayes-Roth, Extempo Systems, Inc.
Session: All the (Virtual) World's a StageSpeaker: Misty West, Web Design & Development Conference, Miller Freeman Publishing
Email Misty for a copy of her Av97 Presentation
Session: 3D API's & Hardware AccelerationSpeaker: Frederick Shaul
Session: Architecting & Managing Large Scale Virtual WorldsSpeaker: Rick Noll
Session: Roll Your Own RealitySpeaker: Charles Ostman
"Nanoswarm" - behavioral activity of pseudo-protein entities swarming together as they migrate toward a biocompatible bonding surface. This is an MPEG animation of a 3D render sequence, which is part of a series of analytical experiments examining the behavior of self-organizing pseudo protein assembly components. Note the polygonal structures of these components. These are relatively small models, which could be converted into VRML models.
swrm.mpg - 814k
This is an example of an "organomorph" process engine being applied to the morphing together of two 3D volumetrically raytraced scenes of forms and geometric constructs "grown" in their respective synthetic environments.
orgn2.mpg - 1.3mb
Session: VRML Consortium 1: Avatar StandardsSpeaker: Bernie Roehl
Session: Social Lifecycles of Virtual CommunitiesSpeaker: Gail Williams
Session: 2d or not 2dSpeaker: Tony Christopher
Session: 2d or not 2dSpeaker: Randy Farmer
Session: Virtual WorkspaceSpeaker: Garry Hare
Session: Avatar Psychologists - The Construction of Virtual PersonalitySpeaker: Sanford Rosenberg
Session: Ancient Rituals for a New MediumSpeaker: Michael Sellers et al
Catwoman's report on Ancient Rituals for a New Medium at the Avatars97 Conference.
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