 Haptek's Virtual Alien |  I'm not sure when, but at some point something very different started happening to the computer that sits on my desk. It stopped just crunching numbers and took on a personality. That personality has now manifested itself in an amazing way via two remarkable programs - one from Haptek Inc. the other from RED TED. | |
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With Haptek you do the install and suddenly there is this photo realistic 3D green alien or this old wise man who keep morphing into different shapes. All the while pleading with you not to click on the cat icon, because the cat makes them nervous. Did I mention that they will also speak any text you feed them and you and a friend can use them to chat over the net? They are really very accommodating. | ||
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Then we have RED TED. Now, I really love this concept and they do pull it off. You take a photo of a face - any face - into the editor, click and drag some points and lines, feed it a WAV file or run it along side of something like RealAudio and the darn thing comes to life! I kid you not! The head turns, the eyes open and close and the lips move all in sync with the audio feed. Man, it's weird having the Mona Lisa read you CNN Headline news! Both of these programs do much more then I have mentioned here and have some very serious applications. Red Ted's Bakehead can be used with any application, which involves streaming voice data across the internet. Where as the Haptek ability to read any text file, could be used for anything from audio manuals to proof reading letters etc.. But what really caught my attention was the shear fun of both of them. Go see for yourself, but be prepared never to look at your computer the same way again! GYager |  The Bakehead Editor and Player from RED TED | |
Both companies offer free downloads of demo software. Haptek's run on Windows 95 and Windows NT and on PowerPC with Mac OS 7.5 or later. The RED TED Bakehead Editor runs on Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0 | ||