Chicago's first virtual news anchor
 

Virtuosity

The Internet Metaverse continues to inch into reality. News At Seven is an NU project that has been referred to as robonews. Totally autonomous, it collects, parses, edits and organizes news text and images from the web and then text-to-speeches the formatted content to an artificial anchor (Alex Vance from the game Half-Life 2) for presentation. Less comprehensible is the need for the search engine avatar at Ms. Dewey. Synthravels also debuted this month as the first online Virtual Travel Agency where you can tour virtual worlds like Second Life or Active Worlds.

News At Seven

Ms. Dewey

Synthravels

Second Life

Active Worlds