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October 2, 2001 at 5:41 am #14353Jeff HesterKeymaster
An Australian company called famous3d has introduced an extension for MSN Messenger called IMpersona. It lets you create an animated persona that “talks” to your chat buddy.
Sounds interesting, but a little silly. Has anyone tried it, or do you want to?
Jeff Hester
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October 6, 2001 at 4:09 pm #103097rustedtightMember“A little silly”? sure it is, put this one down beside pet rocks, cyber pets, human mark-up language, aquarium screen savers et all. Frivilous it is, however, judging by its online forum and growth in a short time theres a lot of people out there willing to waste their time on it. So I lined up with some good company, Huh Jeff? and downloaded it in the interest of science……NOT.
It does what it claims, a cyber ‘head’ speaks the incomming messages. A little fast for my tastes but acceptable.
Useful when you wander out of the room to get coffee or …… and a voice begins chatting.
It has some uses…… theres um….., and umm…, well cyber sex would be a giggle, and theres those foul mouthed young guys who…….., naw, maybe it wouldnt be nice to actually hear that.October 6, 2001 at 4:34 pm #103092Jeff HesterKeymasterYeah, it’s a little wierd, but fun. They claim that you’ll be able to create your own “face” at some point, so conceivably your friends could see “you” talking to them.
I think we’re more likely to see video chat take off as broadband access proliferates (as in Yahoo! Messenger). Maybe the IMpersona will be more popular when the speech technology improves and the “heads” look more realistic. Then you could IMpersonate someone. (Is that a good thing?) Of course, people do that now in the text world… pretend to be someone (or something) they are not.
So have you blown it away already?
Jeff Hester
BigBlueBall.comOctober 6, 2001 at 4:51 pm #103096rustedtightMemberDid you?
I’ll hang on to it for another week or two. Until the novelty value wears off, then drop it.
The current window consumes far too much screen real estate. I cant work and chat using it so it has a short life on my system.
It raises some points however……. maybe a voice reader app would be popular combined with a small on screen window not unlike AIM has now. What a great app for the visually impaired.Edited by – rustedtight on 10/06/2001 12:13:27
October 6, 2001 at 5:45 pm #103091Jeff HesterKeymasterI’ll do the same. I wasn’t able to get it to work on my Win2K machine, so I’ve installed it on my Windows ME box. When I tried to run it just now, I got a message saying there was an update available, so apparently the product hasn’t been fully cooked yet.
You raised a very good point about using this technology to allow the blind to “hear” their buddies chat with them. I wonder if they (famous3d) have thought about that or looked at that?
Jeff Hester
BigBlueBall.comOctober 11, 2001 at 9:13 pm #103094FanaticMemberIMpersona? I only wish there was a better way to say: L-A-M-E!
This thing is a dorky gimmick for people with way too much disk space and free time! Get a life, people!
Yahoo’s webcam feature is WAY better!
October 15, 2001 at 7:12 pm #103095rustedtightMemberFanatic, when 1.9mb becomes way too much disk space let me know, I’ll give you a hard drive.
Seriously, its frivolous if you just brush over the surface, but there is a population of sight challenged users who may see some value here.
Hell its innovation, thats all i see, progress has to start somewhere. Think of BigblueAlice with a voice? cool? and with a face? OK so the face is frivolous…….. maybe.November 10, 2001 at 2:33 am #103098sp70MemberThis topic sounds familiar to an email based technology that’s interesting to say the least. Spices up email a bit. Check out LifeFX
November 11, 2001 at 6:44 pm #103093FanaticMemberQuote:quote:
This topic sounds familiar to an email based technology that’s interesting to say the least. Spices up email a bit. Check out LifeFXYeah, I checked out LifeFX before (that clown scares the shit outta me!). If I had to choose, I like impersona better tho because it is real time. I like that lifefx gives u so many faces to choose from. mucho kewlness.
Tho…. I don’t use either any more! they get old real quick.
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October 12, 2002 at 7:10 am #103100pcbMemberi downloaded TalkyMSN 1.0.2 and i got a virus on my pc luckuly i had norton but anywho i don’t like that **** it’s really stupid ! ! !
i never tried Talking Messenger 3.0 tho ! ! !November 16, 2003 at 12:53 pm #103101QwertyMemberIt was a craze that went through my school for like.. a week.:D
It’s cool when your 12 (when I had it) but basicly its just a web cam for ugly people.November 18, 2003 at 5:45 pm #103099FrutZleMemberQuote:quote:Originally posted by Qwerty… but basicly its just a web cam for ugly people.
Hey… ugly people use real webcams too… 😮 :p
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