Giving my avatar a face, and a body that talks
My Ready Player Me avatar couldn’t smile, blink or open its mouth. Transferring 72 blend shapes in Blender, lip sync from audio, then a body that breathes, s...
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A behaviour stream for LiveKit agents
A LiveKit voice agent that sends emotion, gaze, gestures and listening cues alongside its voice, so any device can act them out. How it works, and how to get...
From CMP338 to LiveKit: where my talking avatars started
At re:Invent 2024 I presented a MetaHuman avatar you could talk to. It could move its lips, but it had no emotions and no gestures. Part 1 of a three-part se...
Path to the Industrial Metaverse
I recently gave a talk at the London Tech Summit 2022 on my thoughts around metaverse technology and more specifically, the Industrial Metaverse. It has been...
AAD Login HoloLens2 - MRTK3 Update
What’s the first thing that anyone creating any enterprise app will need to work out?
HoloLens2 local anchors with OpenXR in Unity
I recently required the functionality of creating a single, persistent local spatial anchor on HoloLens2. The purpose is to provide stability and a persistent
Azure Speech Studio for Mixed Reality
It is not uncommon that a Mixed Reality experience requires more user guidance than traditional applications; partially because the user may not be familiar ...
HoloLens 2 Unreal Project Template
Each time I wanted to create a HoloLens 2 Unreal Engine project I found myself recreating a blank level, setting up a GameMode and configuring the project. L...