Artificial Avatars: no, really
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It had to happen. Rather than paying ’sitters’ L$5/hr to camp out at your place to make it look busy, you can now buy avatars that sit there for free.
Okay, perhaps that’s slightly confusing. But for L$477 you can purchase five different male avatars — clerk, salesman, guard, visitor, manager — and have them stand around looking… well, looking like they’re doing nothing.
More details at their shop on SLexchange or you can drop into to see them in action at Artificial Avatar’s neat glass shop in SL.
Nice idea, but there is no interaction with him when I chat…
I prefer what MyCyberTwin has come up with (visit them and check in out in SL, more details on the MyCyberTwin website) and may have to give it a go (but the US$250 stalls me — that’s a lot for an academic researcher).
Hi Lee, I posted links to a free ai bot solution as part of my blog post here: http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2008/03/botgirl-in-botland-strange-loop-that-is.html