CharActor is a real-time software to present and use interactive avatars / characters in the internet, on mobile devices, kiosk systems, CD-ROM etc. Low data volume and real-time generated motions allow interactivity and animation in an unprecedented quality.

With the software development kit CharActor SDK you can use a development environment to produce and integrate avatars into your own or existing application.

Also we are offering a plugin version for internet browsers, which allows the easy integration into kiosk- and terminal-systems or internet applications.

• 2 avatars (Gloria/Mark) included; customized avatars on demand
• Interfaces to control animation, gesture and voice in real-time (XML, C/C++, Sockets, Java Script)
• CharActor SDK available for integration of avatars into (customized) applications
• 3D real-time avatar rendering
• Interactive animation control via event-based XML interfaces
• Automtic generation of animation: motion blending, morph (facial) blending, etc.
• Large motion liabrary for special movements (show, welcome, present...)
• Automatic lip synch speech output for recorded sounds and text-to-speech (TTS)
• Text-to-Speech: 1 language included; 2 voices (male/female)
• Supported render engines: Software / Direct3D / OpenGL / Open GL CG; automatic choice of applicable engine
• Overlay mode for placing the avatar on any backgrounds, applications, desktop
• NOW: inclusive CharAT authoring tool for comfortable production of interactive animations

• Development environment for integration and implementation of avatar-based human maschine interfaces into 3rd party applications
• Qualified for integrators, OEMs, multmedia programmers, HMI/MMI developers, universities & research centres, marketing designers & agencies, web designers & programmers
• Applicable for: web applications, kiosk terminals, digital terminals (set-up-boxes), consumer electronic devices, mobile terminals & radio navigation devices

• Operating systems: Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows 7, Windows Mobile (CE) 6.0, 6.5
• Hardware: mobile / embedded min. ARM926EJ (400 Mhz); pc min. pentium II (233 Mhz)
• Recommended additional hardware: floating point processor (mobile, embedded), 3D graphics hardware, sound support (MP3, WAV)
• Available as browser plugin für Internet Explorer (IE), standalone-player and as C / C++ / C# SDK