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Xaitment, the creators of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) software for video game and simulation developers, announced that it has received 1.2 million euros (approx. $1.6m USD) from two of its main investors, Triangle and KfW, to finance further development of its knowledge modeling and rules-based behavioral modeling software for games and simulations. The high-level AI software that results from the funding is slated to launch in the first half of 2012.

Disney Research and Robotics Institute have developed a method which translates motions of actors into a 3D-face model.

Nuance Communications announced an agreement to acquire Loquendo. The full transaction will be closed late September 2011.

Various airports (such as Paris, London, Birmingham and Manchester) are experimenting with so-called virtual boarding agents, these are virtual agents which for example kindly greet passengers when boarding or explain security measures before going through customs.

Blue Mars is a 3D virtual world platform enabling users to meet, chat and share their common digital experiences. Blue Mars Lite application goes one step further: Meet other avatars in real-world locations on Google Street View.

What happens when two chatbots chat? Researchers from
Cornell Creative Machines Lab headed by Professor Hod Lipson at Cornell University have recently submitted this entertaining idea to this year’s Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence. Objective of this competition is to fool 2 or more judges into thinking that a chatbot is a human being.

On Tuesday, September 13 at 1pm ET, virtual agent developer Next IT will host Conquer Customer Login Issues, a complimentary, educational webinar exploring online account creation and login issues, their effect on the customer experience, and ways that organizations are using technology to empower users to stay connected to their online accounts.

Daden is hiring: Programmer/Senior Programmer - C#/ASP.NET/Javascript focus, ideally within a virtual world/gaming context (such as Second Life/OpenSim and Unity) or with data visualisation expertise. C++ and Perl would also be useful.

Do you dream about conversational virtual assistants that recognize your voice? First try to talk to your search engine. Your voice will be recorded, transcribed subsequently by the speech server, and then sent back as text. With Google Voice Recognition application users can talk to the computer through a microphone and search for results by speaking, as presented on the video below.

Google Labs has released a free tool that is familiarizing Internet users with the construction of the human body. It allows you to see the detailed structure of every organ, search for muscles and peel back anatomical layers.