Intelligent, Conversational Digital Characters. . .
The next frontier for advertising, entertainment, eLearning -- mobile, location-based (retail, pavilions) and online. With gaming platforms and smart-toys to follow. sAI (Structured Artificial Intelligence)...where motivation and story drives the conversation...
New announcements soon (Summer 2009)...
"Personality" and "Character" are the ingredients that are essential for the End User's suspension of disbelief to buy into a digital-interactive persona/avatar.
We strongly believe there will be great leaps and great demand for "conversational characters" to entertain and guide End Users. And, we also believe that writers and producers from traditional media add-value in the creation of believable "characters" -- i.e.that technology alone can't get the job done by itself. Of course, great tech is needed too.
Why the focus on "conversational interface" and entertainment applications?
The Conversational Interface: Our Next Great Leap Forward
Is great reading, with lines such as:
The CI/SDS is also called the "Conversational User Interface" (CUI), "Linguistic User Interface (LUI)", "Universal Linguistic Interface (ULI)", "Voice User Interface (VUI)", "Natural User Interface (NUI)" and other terms.
Whatever we call it, we suggest this will be the next
major,'internet-level' information technology development, and the
next great collective intelligence advance for our planet.
Of all the computational changes we can realistically forsee for the
next 20 years, the conversational interface is very likely to be
without parallel in its effect on the average human being.
What our browser of 2015 look like? For one thing, it seems clear now
that it will have some very sophisticated software simulations
of human beings as part of the interface. First world culture
finally spends more on video games than movies, and this will
apparently be a permanent feature of our world from this point forward.
These "interactive motion pictures" are more compelling and educating,
particularly to our youth, the fastest learning segment of our society,
than any linear scripts, no matter how professionally produced.
With the release of Google's app for the iPhone this year, it seems possible that voice queries might begin to rival keyboard queries by 2012, as there are so many more phone users than computer users.
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zyntroPICS is working with emerging engines and technologies for "conversational interfaces" and synthetic characters who learn and entertain.
Watch for more announcements soon.
Since we've been blogging on "sister" sites and have generally been up to developing a range of new relationships that will enhance our next-generation interactive video platform, we'll, we've neglected our blog.
So, what's new? In that proverbial nutshell?
Teaser: Interactive Synthetic Intelligent Characters
What?
More to follow.
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UPDATE / SPRING 2008
For the past few years zyntroPICS has been focused on (our site "copy" on nearly all projects) story-driven immersive filmed content. With Executive Producing staff who now include recent experience in spherical video (on National accounts), zyntroPICS Studios are adding a range of interactive video services that incorporate a diversified toolkit for the producing the highest resolution and best End User Experiences of interactive internet and IPTV video.
For a little taste of "basic" spherical content, see below...
CLICK the play button. Then CLICK and SCROLL on the video screen to pan across the 360° view. Don't forget to PAUSE and look around...
Real TV covers internet television in San Francisco on KRON, CH. 4:
zyntroPICS elsewhere in recent news:
Reporter, Online
Multichannel News
Latina Viva
Streaming Media
Shoot Online, Registration Req.
Juan Tornoe Blogs
Hispanic Marketing and PR
Houston Chronicle, Registration Req., worth reading!
Post Magazine
The Team @ zyntroPICS have evolved with the digital production tools and distribution platforms - ranging from Features to mobile video - we focus on story-driven content that includes seamless Brand integration, delivering value-added Content to audiences/communities and the best bang-for-the-buck to Brands and advertisers.
We tilt toward Content that is aimed at demographics outside of the current, core-internet television consumer (i.e. we rarely target Male 14-29). There are a lot of other folks working that Space. We work in the universe outside of that Core, where Story is essential. Current Channels in Beta pre-launch are: horizoncast.com (50+, targeting over 1/3 of the US population) and familytravel.tv (the name says it all); along with 'tween series and unique one-off branded entertainment productions.
zyntroPICS have a deep background in internet video services and production for a range of advertising, business and entertainment applications -- before YouTube existed, we provided encoding and embed codes to Clients to feature video on their web sites - back when it was labor intensive and required the physical shipping of tapes.
That experience began the early work in "content shaping" for short-form, "leaning-forward" filmed entertainment consumption which incorporated the strategy for managing the ratio of the Cost of Production to ad-driven revenue. This allowed zyntroPICS to position itself as the producing and writing team behind the first internet "soap," Series, which we licensed for day-and-date prime-time Broadcast (re-shaped for a :30); which is a genre that has evolved as the primary episodic formula for internet television.
Our commitment is to deliver professional, compelling content, independently produced, to emerging digital distribution platforms, where Audiences, Brands and Production/Distribution all derive exceptional value.
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Developing compelling content in motion for people in motion...reaching audiences Everywhere.
Delivering original content shaped for motion pictures, television, internet-television and mobile audiences. True "multi-platform" content-shaping and delivery, all in High Definition.
Currently in Release:
Dramatic, episodic Bilingual Series, alamoheightsSA, delivering 80-Episodes per Season in :07 minute bites -- Spicy Story-Tapas -- with a unique Enhanced Brand Integration program:
We're in the process of changing our blog platform and migrating content from our affiliate sites to this platform. Please stay tuned.
Story-driven content for internet television is a brand new beast -- We've been focused on this space for the past three years and come to it from a background of motion pictures and episodic television. So, we're "old media folks" who are shaping content for new audiences and communities. All of our forthcoming series are based on a 4-Month "Season" of first-window internet release. We have distributed day-and-date with Broadcast...that's a nice model.
Our Content covers a range of demographics and profiles.
This is a collaborative industry -- and, we work the gambit from hired-guns, to coproductions and partnerships.
Advertising and sponsorship queries for our content sites should be directed to:
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