Participant, User-Guided and Autonomous Actors in the Virtual Life Network VLNET
Daniël Thalmann, Tolga Çapın, Nadia Magnenat‐Thalmann, Igor Pandžić · Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) · 1995
VLNET is a shared virtual life network with virtual humans that provides a natural interface for collaborative working.Virtual actors play a key role in VLNET.Three kinds of virtual actors may coexist in a VLNET scene: participant, guided and autonomous actors.A participant actor is a virtual copy of the real user or participant; his movement is exactly the same as the real user.A guided actor is an actor completely controlled in real-time by the user.An autonomous actor is an actor who may act without intervention of the user.