A Life-Like Agent Interface System with Second Life Avatars on the OpenSimulator Server

Authors:
Hiroshi Dohi;Mitsuru Ishizuka
Affiliations:
Dept. Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo,;Dept. Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 113-8656
Venue:
OCSC '09 Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper describes a design of a life-like agent interface system with Second Life avatars on a 3D virtual world. We have implemented our prototype system on the OpenSimulator server, instead of the Linden Lab's Second Life server. It is open source and a Second Life official viewer can connect it. Although it is still an alpha version and has various problems at present, it has many advantages. Our avatar can be controlled by event-driven. And the script is environment-independent since the other avatars might be changing the world. We have built up our portable experimental environment (our avatar controller, the OpenSimulator server, and the Second Life viewer) on an ordinary laptop PC (Windows Vista). It can run even if it is standalone, without an Internet connection.