Second-person avatars

摘要

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can provide for a second-person avatar. The second-person avatar can rely upon a second-person-based perspective such that the avatar is displayed to appear to encompass all or portions of a target user. Accordingly, actions or a configuration of the avatar can serve as a model or demonstration for the user in order to aid the user in accomplishing a particular task. Updates to avatar activity or configuration can be provided by a dynamic virtual handbook. The virtual handbook can be constructed based upon a set of instruction associated with accomplishing the desired task and further based upon features or aspects of the user as well as those of the local environment.

主权项

1. A computer implemented system that provides a second-person avatar in order to facilitate manual instruction, comprising:
a user-interface component that includes a projector that displays at least a portion of the second-person avatar in a volume of space that encapsulates at least a portion of a target user; an interpretation component that translates a set of instructions from a text-based instruction manual into a virtual handbook of avatar actions for the second-person avatar to perform a task, wherein at least one instruction of the set of instructions is translated based upon one or more physical features of the target user identified in an image of the target user; and an illustration component that:
modifies the second-person avatar to reflect the one or more physical features of the target user, andillustrates the second-person avatar performing the avatar actions in a sequence to complete the task while the user-interface component tracks the target user.