{"id":40143,"date":"2013-12-20T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/real-virtual-avatars.html"},"modified":"2014-01-08T07:53:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T14:53:54","slug":"real-virtual-avatars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/real-virtual-avatars.html","title":{"rendered":"Real virtual avatars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Okay, I have to admit, this is pretty awesome. \u00a0Someone&#39;s going to do it sooner or later, so why not these guys?<\/p>\n<p>(h.t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102984561846295750720\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"102984561846295750720\">Marty Shaw<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/114077525644661833984'>Panah Rad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh boy. I am going to have so much fun with this &#8230; It supports <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23Hangouts\">#Hangouts<\/a> too!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>FaceRig Lets You Embody Virtual Characters<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadgetify.com\/facerig-lets-you-embody-virtual-characters\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.gadgetify.com\/facerig-lets-you-embody-virtual-characters\/<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-UWfdv5kfkT4\/UrMDRYygqnI\/AAAAAAAG5Ko\/Rp5VU2mDHbg\/facerig.gif?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cnNGu1TB1ee' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I have to admit, this is pretty awesome. \u00a0Someone&#39;s going to do it sooner or later, so why not these guys? (h.t +Marty Shaw) Reshared post from +Panah Rad Oh boy. I am going to have so much fun with this &#8230; It supports #Hangouts too!\u00a0 FaceRig Lets You Embody Virtual Characters http:\/\/www.gadgetify.com\/facerig-lets-you-embody-virtual-characters\/\ufeff View &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/real-virtual-avatars.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Real virtual avatars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,22,20],"tags":[516],"class_list":["post-40143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gaming","category-hi-tech","tag-hangouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41448,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/google-continues-consolidating-into-hangouts.html","url_meta":{"origin":40143,"position":0},"title":"Google continues consolidating into Hangouts","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Mar-14 10:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Which, frankly, is fine by me. I merged the text messaging function into Hangouts, and aside from some artificial barriers between IM and SMS, it works great (and is one less icon to juggle). 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Which is just way too on the nose about Hangouts ... This is the most important update in the history of Hangouts The Hangouts app has had a lot of big updates over the years. 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