Participant, User-Guided and Autonomous Actors in the Virtual Life Network VLNET
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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.
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