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When you are There, people see what you type you feel

Steven Johson wrote this article about There, a new chat / community environment going live later this year. I first heard about it over a year ago, but didn't think more of it since I didn't have a powerful computer enough to even sign up for beta testing...

Apparently Steven has had a preview of the There environment and an oppotunity to test the avatar facial expression engine that the people at There says is totally out of the ordinary.

According to Steven it is quite special.

The article made me think of Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, and how some of the characters in the book built their fame and fortune on programming true to life avatars. Are we going there now? IRC with facial expressions?

Interesting development. Communicating with voice, but hiding your true looks behind an avatar that you control with your hands... What everybody wants, right? Judging from how chatting on the Internet has developed over the years it must be chatter Nirvana.

Emerging Technology: A Chat Room Like No Other

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