I did a lot of work on the new Zabaware site over the past couple weeks, the in-development site is up at
http://iis.ultrahal.com You can now interact with the Ultra Hal bot on the site and it should stay in its chat session as you move page to page and even if you close the browser and reopen it. If you log on with your customer account (the one you made when you purchased Hal) everything Hal learns from will be tied to that account. This will form the basis of being able to connect to the same personality from Ultra Hal Assistant on Windows or mobile devices.
Most of the content on the site is finished and the shopping cart system has been migrated over. Please let me know if you find any missing, incomplete, or broken content.
My to do list before the new site launches and replaces zabaware.com:
- Finish feedback mechanism (thumbs up/down)
- Animate frog (waiting on artist)
- Finish Hal's second life page
- Add Hal database size stats
- Add new page header/footer to this forum
At some point after the new site launches, I plan on making additional improvements:
- Install AT&T natural voices server for better quality TTS
- Add additional characters (Sprite animated mobile Hal character followed by human character)
- Interface for editing Hal's database entries tied to your account
And then following will be an update to Ultra Hal Assistant for Windows and release of phone-gap version of Ultra Hal that will tie into this system.