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Big Stage Takes the Stage As Part of Intel Keynote At CES

Posted on: Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 00:00 CST

"Third Life" is a phrase you probably haven't heard before, but it was one of the topics presented today in the keynote by Intel Corporation CEO Paul Otellini. Third Life refers to the future of the Internet where there's a new level of capabilities and intelligence in the Internet experience. Big Stage demonstrated this vision by bringing a next generation avatar to life.

Big Stage is a media company whose breakthrough technology allows users to easily create and integrate a life-like 3-D avatar of themselves into everything from famous movie scenes, TV shows and video games, to music videos, short video clips, virtual worlds, still images, user-generated content, instant messages, e-mails, social networks and more -- instantly. The Big Stage experience will officially launch for consumers in the second quarter of 2008.

"I am impressed with the fidelity of the Big Stage avatar and the technology they have developed," said Jerry Bautista, co-director of Intel's tera-scale computing program. "In our research at Intel we are looking for new applications that will take advantage of the advancements in multi-core computing, bringing new capabilities to consumers on desktops and notebooks. The Big Stage technology makes the immersion of life-like 3D avatars in games, video, and virtual worlds fast and simple, but it is a compute-intensive process. When coupled with enhanced AI and physics it is a good example of the kind of application that this new computing era has enabled."

Media will have an additional opportunity to see the Big Stage technology previewed at ShowStoppers this evening at the Wynn Hotel, Lafite Ballroom.

"It's exciting to join a world-class company like Intel in unveiling our powerful vision to the world as part of their CES keynote," said Big Stage Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer Jonathan Strietzel. "We've invented something special that will forever change the way consumers experience entertainment."

Big Stage's 3-D capture technology allows users to take three simple pictures of themselves with a digital camera and upload them to the Web where they are quickly converted into an avatar. Big Stage's proprietary technology maps the contours of a user's face to create a life-like 3-D avatar fully-equipped for animation. In under a minute, your avatar is born and fully alive through realistic movement and gestures. Users can then style it with a host of accessories, from hair to eyeglasses, tattoos, hats and more.

After users create and style their avatar, they can immediately drop it into the library of Big Stage-enabled (BSE) user and professionally created content -- from still pictures to games, film and animation, virtual worlds and social networking communities.

About Big Stage

Big Stage is a media company whose breakthrough technology allows users to easily create and integrate a life-like 3-D avatar of themselves into everything from famous movie scenes, TV shows and video games, to music videos, short video clips, virtual worlds, still images, user-generated content, instant messages, e-mails, social networks and more -- instantly. Big Stage will launch to consumers in the second quarter of 2008.

For more information, please visit http://www.BigStage.com.

Source: Business Wire

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