{"id":2,"date":"2011-01-21T22:31:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2011-02-09T00:46:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T00:46:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Imagine being able to speak with and interview your favorite virtual characters. \u00a0How exciting would that be? \u00a0The Puppetineering project at Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Entertainment Technology Center aims to allow you to do just that. \u00a0The goal of our project is to give personal interactions with virtual characters. \u00a0We are designing an experience that completely breaks the 4th wall and makes it so virtual characters are able to speak directly with their real-life fans.<\/p>\n<p>Puppetineering stands for puppet plus engineering. \u00a0We are creating a tool that allows a person to control and puppeteer a virtual character, giving it a full range of movements, voice, and emotion. \u00a0The end product is a prototype that people will be able to interact with and hopefully, with a little magic, people will allow themselves to be lost in the experience and believe that they are actually speaking and responding to a virtual character.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/110204-8708.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81\" title=\"Team Photo\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/110204-8708-1024x697.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/110204-8708-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/110204-8708-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine being able to speak with and interview your favorite virtual characters. \u00a0How exciting would that be? \u00a0The Puppetineering project at Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Entertainment Technology Center aims to allow you to do just that. \u00a0The goal of our project is to give personal interactions with virtual characters. \u00a0We are designing an experience that completely &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/puppetineering\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}