Video Communication and Avatar Chats

The attractiveness of today's online chat rooms is mainly derived from the secure protection of the anonymity of the chat participants allowing to talk about most private issues if desired. ICQ alone handles 400,000,000 (four hundred million) chat messages per day while it is supposed to be far less distributed than MSN Messenger and faces hard competition with Skype, AOL IM, etc.

However, the main drawback is the pure text based communication, which leads to an invented chat-language (lingo). It comprises numerous different Smileys and *xy* codes for the expression of the emotion, which is so essential for a good communication with fewer misunderstanding.

Upcoming technologies provide avatar-based communication where the user can widely specify the appearance of its avatar and makes it laugh, smile, grin, nod, shake head, laboriously via bulky sets of commands.

The FEASy technology allows for the protection of anonymity within natural human-human video communication and the remote control of avatars with all basic expressions of face to face communication. Since the face analysis of FEASy is based on the re-synthesis of a face, the found shapes and positions of eyes, brows, mouth, etc. in the users face can be applied to any avatar or even photography of a face from, say, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, or anybody else.

Thus, today's text-chat rooms can significantly benefit from the extension MMER-supported avatar or video functioniality with highly improved virtual presence coming with appealing entertainment.

If you are interested in our face analysis technology and its development and integration into your product, please do not hesitate to contact us...