VirtualStage Features
Overview
 VirtualStage is a software application that enables you to create your own virtual reality and, in particular, your own three dimensional (3D) animated plays, dramas, films and television productions. The drama is created in real-time, that is, as-it-happens and is recorded for subsequent playback.
The actions of the virtual actors are defined and directed by you, thus allowing an infinite range of possible gestures and movements. The actors' dialogue, also entered by yourself, is spoken using computer synthesized speech or recordings of real voices. You position and then control any number of cameras so that the performance can be viewed from any angle. The drama itself takes place against a backdrop that you will have designed.
Feature Matrix
Feature |
15 Day
Trial |
Full
Version |
Sets |
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Design your own virtual theatre stages and film sets by combining 3D models of scenery and props (props not supplied with trial version). |
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Decorate the walls of sets using photographs from a digital camera or images created in a graphics package. |
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Import your own 3D models of props. |
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Performing |
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Set up a scene by choosing the set, configuring the lighting, placing the virtual actors and positioning the cameras. |
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Virtual actors perform each scene following the directions that you issue. You can make the actors walk and turn simply by using the mouse, show emotions with a simple key press or have them perform any of the gestures that you have previously defined by selecting from a popup menu. |
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The actors' speech is generated by synthesized voices from compatible SAPI4 and SAPI5 speech engines using the dialogue that you enter. |
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Includes voices from two of the world's leading speech engines. |
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As an alternative to voice synthesis, record and use recordings of real voices for the actors' speech. |
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During the performance, you control the cameras so you can switch to close-ups or pan out for whole scene shots. |
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Add sound effects for extra realism. |
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Define a library of actions and gestures that are then available for the actors to perform during a scene. |
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Share actions with other VirtualStage users. |
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Editing |
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Edit scenes with the Timeline Editor. This powerful tool even lets you add actions and dialogue that were not there in the original performance. |
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Add new actions, gestures, dialogue, sound effects and camera switches during subsequent reruns of the performance. |
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Replay |
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Replay scenes, or even entire productions, as often and whenever you like. Using third party software, you can even capture the replay as video. |
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Miscellaneous |
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Import your own 3D character models that conform to the required VirtualStage specification. |
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Import motion capture data and predefined animations in Biovision's BVH format. |
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VirtualStage automatically generates a script or screenplay for your production based on the directions and dialogue that you entered for each scene. |
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An array of administration tools to manage your different productions and configure the settings. |
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Help & Tutorials |
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A comprehensive Help system including a number of walk through tutorials to help get you started. |
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Contents |
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# High resolution characters with facial expressions for emotions, lip sync & blinking. |
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# Lower resolution characters with simple lip sync & blinking. |
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12 |
# High quality, naturally sounding synthesized voices. |
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# Low footprint synthesized voices. |
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# 3D prop models for dropping into sets. |
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# Supplied actions and gestures. |
28 |
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# Sample sound effects. |
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87 |
# Textures for decorating set walls. |
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252 |
Other |
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Delivery mechanism. |
1Down
load |
1,2Down
load
+CD/DVD |
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1VirtualStage is a Java Web Start application and so is downloaded and installed automatically by clicking on the link on the download page.
2The full version has additional resources that are delivered on disks following purchase.
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