Ari Shapiro – USC Viterbi research assistant professor of computer science head of the Character Animation and Simulation research group at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) – has come up with a solution that allows harried, hurried people to be in many places at all hours – at least in the digital world.
Shapiro and his team have created smartphone apps, UBeBot for Android and AR Avatar Director for iPhones, that allow users to customize their own realistic looking avatars, which can emulate their voice, gestures, and physical traits.
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