I have been tackling an interesting problem recently which has introduced itself as we have increased the fidelity of our system and in turn run it on a low powered device (mobile phone/cell phone/keitai, whatever your preference). That is the difference between what we usually refer to as “Real Time”, i.e. TV time at 24 – 60fps and what I am calling Human Real Time. This is the lowest processing time achievable by humans in terms of receiving an input signal, routing it, processing by the various required sub systems and finally outputting a behavior. This is generally thought to be around 15 milliseconds (around 60fps), I use 10 milliseconds which is 100 frames per second. » Read more: “TV Real Time” or “Human Real Time”?

I have been working hard recently on building a mobile device demo of the emotion ai engine controlling the Mobile Mascots J2ME Graphics engine with a 3D character. The demo is initially running on Vodafone handsets but should work on any Java handset (as long as it can handle 1MB downloads, hopefully 256k later as the current size is around 300k including the model). The mobile Mascots engine is being ported to the BREW environment soon so that will enable another set of handsets. The character looks very cool and remarkably fluid even given the small window size and reduced frame rate (around 12fps non optimized).

We are also looking at creating a web applet version which would allow me to put a demo on the web site for you to play with. Seeing the engine in action answers so many questions.

I will be in London on 9/1 and 9/7 and will be available for meetings and demonstrations, albeit briefly. If you would like to meet then let me know ( info at emotion dot ai ). Priority given to those with immediate projects and deep pockets