"Your girlfriend just got some competition!"

"WHAT THE?.....Someone is using my blog name!"

It's a computer program called 'Virtual Woman'
and the manufacturers boast that, quote....
'Your girlfriend just got some competition!"


The information below has been gained from their website:
http://virtualwoman.net/

Virtual Woman users can build, talk, and compete against Virtual Women with full artificial intelligence. You choose their ethnic type, personality, location, clothing, etc. Features include 3D graphics and Digital DNA, as well as Voice and NaturalSound.

You can download the latest version here if you want to:
http://virtualwoman.net/download.htm

The screenshots that I have seen look fairly ordinary considering how good graphics can be these days, however, the gameplay may make up for it!

Give it a shot and let me know if it's any good. :)

NEW BOOK OUT!!

Whilst browsing the internet I stumbled across an interesting new book which I must get.
'Digital Beauties' features nearly 600 pages of digitally created women. It showcases the artwork of around 100 artists.

These artists have used many different programs to create their perfect women, included in the book are creations using: Curios Labs Poser,Corel Bryce,Adobe Photoshop,JASC Paintshop Pro and Procreate Painter (Corel) to name but a few.

Checkout this link for a full review!

http://www.creative-3d.net/DigitalBeauties.cfm

New Animated Characters for your Website!

SITEPAL
I think that this is a brand new site.

Basically it lets you enhance your website by including a computer animated person which will talk to your audience and tell them about your goods and services.

I'm not plugging this program but I thought it was worthy of inclusion in this blog as it features "virtual women!"

The link below is to the 'Sitepal' website. You can try the demo which showcases the program and let's you create your own 'Sitepal'.

You can even choose different hairstyles, Mouths, Glasses, clothes and jewelry to enhance your chosen character.

http://www.oddcast.com/sitepal/?&affId=45309&bannerId=0&promotionId=4730

Daily Beauty

http://www.dayeye.com/women/3dbeauty/

Here's a site which has a daily updated upperclass 3D beauty.

Watch out , there's a couple of 'pop-up' windows with it!

This article was originally posted on the BBC website in 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/606855.stm

A cyberbabe modelled on a mixture of Posh Spice, Kylie Minogue and TV presenter Carol Vorderman is set to become the world's first virtual newscaster.

The computer-generated character called Ananova will be able to deliver the latest news over the internet, when she is launched later this year.

Ananova was created by PA New Media, which claims to have given her a full range of human characteristics based on the personality most people wanted to read the news. As a result, she has the profile of a single 28-year-old "girl about town" who loves Oasis and The Simpsons and is 5ft 8in (1.73m) tall. Ananova is fully-animated using the latest in 3D computer graphics and is programmed to deliver the news in a "pleasant, quietly intelligent manner". But behind the pretty face there is a super-fast computer system that can create a news bulletin faster than any human equivalent, any minute of the day.

PA New Media says she will "transform the delivery of news" when she is launched on the internet later this year. "This is the most exciting product we have developed and one that has far-reaching implications for our whole business," said Mark Hird, the hi-tech company's director. "We are taking instant news and information, converting the data or text into speech and at the same time creating the real-time animated graphics needed for Ananova to read out the bulletin on the fly." Ananova will appear in a TV-style window on PC screens when her website is launched in the run up to Easter and she will later be available via mobile networks and other digital services.

http://www.ananova.com/video/