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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 16, 2004, 04:30:04 pm »

Oops!  Sorry about that!  We won't post here again.

Please, if anyone else reads this thread and has anything to say about VirtualFem, just contact us directly via our site.

Moderator, please consider locking this thread from further posts, or remove it.

Thanks!

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 15, 2004, 05:27:13 pm »

We have a WINNER!  [8D]

That is correct, Harmony is the largest so far, with a download size of 395 MB.

esfeld, please send us an email to get set up!

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

[What is the name of the largest (download size) VirtualFem?]

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 14, 2004, 01:07:13 pm »

ultrahal315; welcome to the forum!  Thanks for the kind words! []

Rick;

Ok, sure, let's have some fun!  [8D]

CONTEST!  The prize is a free 2 week membership to VirtualFem.com!

You must be over age 21 to participate!

Our first winner is Rick.  Why?  Because it is our contest!  []

Rick, if you are over 21, please email us.

NEXT WINNER:

The next account goes to the first person to post on this thread with the correct answer to this question:

What is the name of the largest (download size) VirtualFem?

Good Luck!

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 13, 2004, 09:05:21 am »

quote:Why try and use the mpeg video characters? Either use a real girl or use a Poser Character.
To me, the mpeg loses in terms of quality, compared to the other options I mentioned (a real female or a nicely done 3D render).

quote:
 ...eliminating Hal and graphics characters altogether

Oops, I think I missed where you said that last part in your first message -- VirtualFem does not use Hal, or characters like Hal, and in fact has nothing to do with it.  Remember, I only came to this forum to answer questions about our software.  I didn't start this thread.

If you render a movie with poser, or if you record it with a real model and a $15,000 video camera, you still are going to end up with needing to put it on the users machine in a playable format...  You know, like AVI (with some codec), quicktime MOV, Windows formats (WMV, etc) -- or MPEG.

DVD uses MPEG2 at 4000 kbits/sec.  VCD uses MPEG1 at 1125 kbits/sec.  We use MPEG1 at 2000 kbits/sec.  It is great looking video.

The thing to remember here is that VirtualFem is designed as a programming language.  It is very easy to create your own custom VirtualFem, and you could render and add poser movies of your favorite characters from Renderosity or Renderotica to yout heart's content.  You could continue adding stuff to basically the limit of your hard drive capacity.  The system itself is ultra-scaleable like that.  [8D]

We do a lot of brain storming with our users and we have voting on development direction by our members.

And thanks for the apology to Emily...  We try to get girls that look like a pretty girlfriend, or have that girl-next-door look.

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 13, 2004, 07:28:37 am »

CoCoKid,

I am quite familiar with the poser community, I have some stuff on Renderosity that is highly rated and I have been using poser since version 1.  Glad you think poser girls are realistic looking; LOL.  The first version of VirtualFem did come with a poser girl.  Rendering 3d movies is done usually when one cannot afford real models, or when doing dangerous or hard to produce movies.

The emilywall1.jpg pic, this is just a photo of one of our girls.  VirtualFem uses high-quality MPEG video.  Usually 2000 kbit/sec.  It is somewhat like the 'virtual sex with so and so' DVD titles in that respect.

After you download VirtualFem, and any add-on girls you want, the internet is not required to run them.  Web cams have low-quality, and many users are talking to the girl at the same time, a far, far different thing than the immersive 'Virtual Girlfriend' experience that VirtualFem provides.

Art; thanks for the kind words!  []

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 12, 2004, 07:51:38 am »

Yes, we'll have to put safeguards in to prevent VirtualFems from taking over the world.  Wait a minute...  Isn't that how that movie started?  [8D]

Can I share a pic too?  Not nude...
http://www.virtualfem.com/emilywall1.jpg

And thanks for the kind wishes!

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 11, 2004, 01:46:34 pm »

That's just it, the poly count needs to come up.

One day, real time 3D will be the thing to do.  Especially if we can get a nice holographic projector in your room hooked to your PC.  []

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 11, 2004, 01:25:49 pm »

The problem there is we think 3D women are not sexy at all.  Some 3D art is starting to look a little good nowadays, but that is rendered 3D art, not real-time.  And if you are going to render a movie, you might as well use a real girl.

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 05, 2004, 06:50:48 pm »

Thanks for the link, Art!  Very cool.

The L&H voices seem to only be available in a SAPI 4.0 version...

from the microsoft site:
Windows XP however now ships with SAPI 5.0 which does not provide backward compatibility support for its predecessor. Fortunately, SAPI 4.0 and SAPI 5.0 can co-exist together on the same Windows XP computer.

What a mess!  I have not been able to get the L&H voices to work on my machine, I think because of this.  Have to do some debugging there...

I think the Cepstral and AT&T voices are the best I have heard.  Cepstral has a new voice coming out at the end of the year (Stephanie).  We might try again to make some kind of deal with
Cepstral to license all VirtualFem users.


.I'll like to create my own girl

Great!  Please feel free to email for assistance if you need -- we have tried to make it easy to create your own VirtualFem.  If you have the video clips, you are most of the way done already!

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 05, 2004, 08:15:40 am »

Yes, that is exactly right!  []

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 05, 2004, 08:07:52 am »

You change the voice selected in VirtualFem via
the TTS options (right-click on the lips icon).

Most TTS voices install like software, when you
have more voices installed they will appear in
the selection menu of VirtualFem.

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: December 05, 2004, 07:38:40 am »

Hello kuuga28,

Mary is rather computer sounding.  You can use any SAPI
compliant TTS voice with VirtualFem.  Sadly, all the good
ones cost almost as much as the basic VirtualFem membership.

We tried to license voices from Cepstral and AT&T, but they
want too much 'per seat'.  The best we could do was give you
a discount -- see the members section, 'voice enhancements'
page for more info and links.

I also would be interested to know if any members here can
reccomend any free female TTS voices that are better than
Microsoft Mary..

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: November 19, 2004, 04:00:37 pm »

Hello vonsmith,

I totally understand your mistrust of the adult industry.  We have been in this industry about three months.  We are indeed taking on the mission of providing the best in programmable adult chatbot 'virtual girlfriend' software.  You'll note that not only are there no popups on our site, there are no ads of any kind.  The adult industry has earned the terrible reputation that is has, and we dislike being part of that, but are up to the challenge of overcoming the credibility gap.

Now then, on to the fun stuff!

>>are the video portions somehow lip-synched to the AIML responses so that the character lip-synchs in real-time to the user's custom code?

No, there is no lip-synching.  Note that some videos have sounds in them, the girl moaning and so forth -- but the TTS audio is just overlayed without consideration to mouth movement.  It actually works pretty well, as we have both audio sources going at the same time.  I am sure you know the difficulties that would be involved in doing lip-synch without using cartoon or real-time 3d people.  We don't think those look good.

>>Or are the video scenes just cut scenes dynamically tacked together? Can you create custom scenes? Can you link AIML code to actions in the video? If so, how?

The video is little scenes (or long ones, most of them are loops) that are triggered by patterns.  Yes, you can link AIML to actions with video, via an srai to a front brain pattern, or by adding a pattern in the front brain, which is where the video is selected for the paticular pattern.  That also lets you use the state engine, which responds to patterns differently depending on the states set.  The front brain system uses AIML natively also, and patterns and reductionisms can run back and forth between regular AIML and front brain AIML transparantly.

We release a new girl once a month, which includes from 100 to 300+ MB of mpeg video and a custom brain.  You can use any of the scenes in your own custom patterns that you add to the girl (or srai to a similar one), or add any video you have that can play in windows media player.

>How about supplying a downloadable demo version or a free interactive tour on your web site?

This is an idea that we are considering!

Thanks again,

-VirtualFem

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: November 19, 2004, 06:33:16 am »

Just a quick follow up here.  Obviously, the conversation mentioned by mikmoth had to be tested...  I thought when I first saw it that it seemed wrong, as VirtualFem knows simple things like that.

User>How are you?
Stacy>Everything is running smoothly, User.  Thanks for asking...

mikmoth, you are either running a very old version of our software that had a bug with question marks messing up pattern weighting, or you are missing some of the default AIML set.  Suggest you install the latest setup and/or cumulative patch..

Thanks again everyone and sorry to intrude on your forum, just thought we should be accountable.  We love our mission, and our users, and want to do the best we can.

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com

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General Discussion / Virtual Fem

« on: November 19, 2004, 04:47:38 am »

Hello Everyone,

Thank you first of all, to KnyteTrypper, for posting about our software and for giving us a little optimism.  

Apologies to mikmoth, very sorry that you have had some disapointing interactions with VirtualFem!  Note that if you copy in the ALICE (or any other decent) brain to your VirtualFem/aiml folder, she will be able to have better (non-erotic) conversations for you now.

Obviously, we have some work to do in the conversation area.  Our main initial AIML work centers around the theme, which is virtual sex and virtual girlfriend type of thing.  She may be a little ditzy for now in other areas, but hey, she's really hot!  

Seriously, we have hired a professional writer as mentioned, her work will over time add up to become a new and very nice AIML set.
We have been providing updates for our software and AIML rather often, and it is coming along nicely.

As to our underlying technology, vonsmith, perhaps you missed the 'software details' section of our features page, near the bottom.  Here is a screenshot of the built-in AIML target editor:
http://www.virtualfem.com/shots2-03.jpg

As mentioned above, VirtualFem natively supports AIML.  So, any AIML you put in the VirtualFem/aiml folder will be used.  All configuation files are easily editable, this system is designed to be tinkered with and tweaked.  You can sit back and download updates as we create them, or you can click a couple times and make changes yourself when you want.  You could not be more wrong in saying that we do not care about our technology, or are not serious about being the cutting edge of adult chat bot software.

One final note; the installer for VirtualFem is around 150 MB.  I am not sure what that 13 MB file could be, but I would not download it.

-VirtualFem
http://www.virtualfem.com