Difference between revisions of "Google Summer of Code 2023"

''Brief explanation:'' Adding the infrastructure required to animate avatars with Javascript. Typically, avatars in virtual worlds are based on 3D-models with fixed rules rendering these models. Creativity is limited to 3D modelling. This is also the case in weblin.io. But after all, an avatar is just some screen space filled with graphics. Doing the painting with Javascript allows for much greater creativity. Scripted avatars can employ all technologies available to the browser engine. 3D avatars might be rendered with Three.js. 2D avatars might use SVG. Anyone (capable of progamming) can create an avatar rendering engine which allows for custom avatar designers. Avatars can react programatically and intelligently to events happening on the web page.<br/>

''Brief explanation:'' With weblin.io people meet, chat, and interact on web pages. They appear as avatars on the web pages they visit. Some are just passing by, others spend time with their friends on web pages, like they do in other chat systems. Participants of an avatar theater take part in a stage play, where their avatars perform the act of playing. But instead of moving and talking themselves, participants lend their avatar to the stage engine. The avatar theater stage engine remote controls the participant's avatar. The stage engine also controls the stage set. Basically the stage engine conducts the play, but it is the user's responsibility to provide an appropriate avatar. User's do no have to learn the text, but they can still be part of a stage play. This project implemengts the avatar theater stage engine.<br/>

* Proof of concept implementation of remote controlled avatars via XMPP