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A 3D Natural Emulation Design Approach to Virtual Communities Steve DiPaola - Creative & Development Director Communities.com (OnLive) - rich media communities • Sketch Notes @ www.dipaola.org/sig99 - [email protected] OnLive Traveler Design Goals and Experiences • Goal: Multi-User Group Communications Create a new type of Community OnLive Traveler - www.onlive.com/traveler • 1000 users per day: MTV, ABC Sports, User Communities • 3D Immersive • Emotive avatars • Voice - lip sync • Standards: • VRML+, HTTP • MS D3d, AcX • Pent 90, 28.8 Vcommunity Design Model Social Interaction The Goal • Virtual Communities Social Interaction • Group Communications (visual, verbal) Aesthetic • Natural & Humanistic - Natural metaphors - 1st person, immersive - Really there - Real world anchors Technical Issues Creates Boundaries, Constraints Aesthetic Defines Choice Virtually Modeling a Community Structural Process: Communication • Mechanism to Organize Social Relations Face to Face Verbal Communication: Voice • Most Natural Form • Cues to Emotional State, Individual • Comfortable and Natural 3D Spatial Multi-participant Voice A D Right C B Distance Attenuation • Spatialized (3D) Audio – Distance Attenuation, Stereo Positioning – Organizational System for Multiple Voices (Inputs) • Emulates Natural Process • Audio = Voice (2 +1), Effects, Ambient Sounds (8) Left Tele-Presence - Immersive UI Sense of really being there, with others • Immersive 1st person UI, human field of view • Distanced attenuated voice, stereo “hearing” • Simple 3D navigation: spatial staging • Real world anchors and metaphors Avatars: Talking Emotive Heads Why Heads Based? Face to Face Invested Resources into Communication Binding the Pair: real person ~ virtual avatar - blinking, breathing - lip sync, emotions - movement over rendering Spaces: Atmosphere / Social Staging Atmosphere, Grounding, Comfort Conversation Staging Areas - places to gather Group Dynamics - natural groups of 3 to 6 avatars form • Main & sub stages • Conversational close • Pathways: interaction • Size Matters Emulate a Natural Social Process From neuro-science: • recognized independently, bound together to create a reality Facial Animation : Real People Voice Attenuation : Cocktail Party Effect POV, Maneuvering, Staging: Group Dynamics Anchors : Peripheral Framing, Symbology - Evolve a HyperReality - What is evolving? • Avatars orient towards speaker, eye contact • Maintain “Personal Space”, physical discomfort Using 3D space, orientation social complex ways • “Hang Out” rather than Chat, “a tribe”, old days’ porch • The glance, the pause, the acknowledgement head turn ... You feel the other people, what passes unsaid What computer are usually awful at: THE HUMAN A 3D Natural Emulation Design Approach to Virtual Communities Steve DiPaola - Communities.com • email: [email protected] • OnLive Traveler: www.onlive.com/traveler Sketch Notes: www.dipaola.org/sig99