Development of an avatar language chatting system and its communication experiment using a Japanese communications satellite

We propose a chatting system that uses avatar language to communicate across the linguistic barriers. We developed a CG system for generating CG animations of words from avatar language. A communication experiment was performed using a Japanese communications satellite to confirm the validity of the developed chatting system.

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