Creation of new communications based on multimedia technologies

Various new types of telecommunications services are expected to emerge based on multimedia technologies. In this paper, the concept of hyper-communications is proposed which merges human communications in cyberspace accommodating various people from different places, times zones, and cultures, with computer-generated human-like agent communications. Technologies necessary for bringing about this new telecommunications concept are described along with several research examples at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories.

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