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Oki Gets Animated with 3D Digital Avatars
WWJ Viewpoint :: New Tech & Services
Posted on Monday, October 27 @ 03:35:06 JST
Pick your disguise: I want to be Dr. Jekyll as my mini-me. WWJ was pleasantly surprised last week to find that one of Japan’s usually less-covered semiconductor companies, Oki Electric Industrial, has just come up with 3D digital avatar-producing software called FaceCommunicator-BBE that should allow mobile phone users to appear as a character that mimics (in real time) the user's facial expressions (anger, doubt, happiness, etc.) during calls. Given Japan's love of anime (think Pokemon), the software could be a real boon for those obsessed with being really cute - or those, for whatever reason, who don’t want to show their faces during videophone conversations.