Today I had a great day at work. I've been working on something for a long time with a colleague and it finally looks cool! :) I'll have some real pictures by next week because we will be demoing it to our group! :)
Since I've gotten here to MPI, the coolest programming project I could think of was to get a real-time human-like graphical representation of oneself within the virtual environment. Finally, today we did it! :) I've spoken with several people about this topic and I'm so excited that it is now realized. Tomorrow I have to work on programming in the legs and feet. Then I will add in the ability for two virtual avatars to be represented in real-time motion at the same time.
What these means for those of you who don't know anything about virtual environments, is that now I could ask you to put on an outfit that would allow you to visually become part of the virtual environment. Currently, my avatar looks like a robot. In fact, it was a robot that I programmed in my first year of graduate school! :) The people at work that have helped me get excited about this project and have influenced what we've done are, Martin, Michael, Naima and Stephan. I'm also quite excited to tell my graduate advisors that it is finished-- since now I can use it to evaluate the effects of an avatar on the persons perception of the space and lots of other effects that are not reliant on low latency. ;)
Lets see if I can find a picture of a typical avatar body that we will use for this project! :) Oh, right. There is a photograph of one of the graduate students at Utah that I used to work with. This is a perfect example of an avatar, for those of you who have no idea! :)
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