Avatar - film creatures get interactive in the Web

Applications may target to mix video and interactive 3D for even more human being like appearance IVN, (www.ivn3.com), 3D Live Avatars for e.g. video conferencing

(PresseBox) Berg, 08.02.2010, A blockbuster movie making the word Avatar once again popular / Based on state of the art 3d technology movie watchers getting also active players in the internet / Bitmanagement’s rendering engine offers real-time and internet capability / Avatars enable different applications

A blockbuster movie has spread the word "Avatar" - previously known mainly by computer graphic experts - to the minds of millions of cinema visitors and therefore to mainstream. They learned what it is about avatars and how they can perform. An avatar is a 3D animated creature - human being or animal. The Hollywood movie of the same title "avatar" shows how lifelike avatars can move, act and gesture even with various facial expressions.

The millions of visitors and the revenues of approximately 2 Billion US $ up to now demonstrate the high acceptance of 3D animated movies like "Avatar" in the public. However, the next steps in technology and applications towards realtime and online capable avatars are already done and standardized with X3D from Bitmanagement. Its BS Contact realtime viewer software (3D realtime renderer) enables the online user to interact with the avatar instead of just watching a prerecorded film sequence because X3D defines also a runtime for animation in realtime.

Instead of rendering batchjobs for a long time (e.g. several days in some film productions with mainframe computers) the animation is rendered and presented with more than 30 frames per second on the client computer. Therefore other types of applications like online gaming, shopping, human simulation or even video conferencing are supported using interactive avatars.

How Avatars can be created

To create an avatar it takes several steps:

- First the basic geometry of the avatar - the 3D mesh - can be exported from standard graphic tools like 3ds max (leading) or blender (free) to X3D.
- The motion sequences of the avatar can be added from realtime motion capturing systems or manually with the H-Anim Standard Toolbox from Web3D. The H-Anim Standard Tool Box from Web3D Consortium is a java based compilation of easytouse tools for creating internet capable avatars.
- Basically the skeleton under the skin of the avatar is animated according to some defined motion vectors. With this technique the same motion can be used for many different models.
- Predefined gestures can be added by the rendering software provider (www.bitmanagement.com) in BS Contact to be triggered when the user's avatar needs to perform them (e.g. greeting, waving, etc.). Moreover

Individual motion sequences can be additionally captured and applied to let appear gestures even more realistic (e.g. www.circlesandlines.com).

The graphical quality of the online capable and interactive avatar on standard consumer hardware needs than to be adjusted to the target group of the application.

About Bitmanagement Software GmbH

Bitmanagement is a provider of multimedia software with a focus on online interactive 3D visualization. The multimedia technology for 2D/3D, audio and video is realtime and Internetready. Based on the ISOstandard formats VRML/X3D, CityGML and COLLADA, MPEG-4 and Java, it allows an Interactive visualization of concepts and products.

Bitmanagement develops and markets a product portfolio of visualization software, which is composed of visualization software (BS Contact VRML / X3D, MPEG-4, Geo, Stereo and Mobile), documentation (BS SDK Package) for animation and different programming tools up to Workflow optimization such as BS Encrypt.

Bitmanagement was founded in 2002 by three former employees of the blaxxun interactive AG, Munich. The company achieved sales growth and positive result in 2008 and is "cash flow positive" in since its founding,"

Bitmanagement is a board member of the "Web3D Consortium" (USA), which is responsible for the standardization and dissemination of 3D ISO standards for the Internet. Bitmanagement is simultaneously also a member of the" 3D Consortium "for the dissemination of stereoscopic visualization.

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