Archive for March, 2008

Once more a video from Second Life, this time showing Hotep Milena configured with a Hide & Seek behavior. It really is a very basic hide behavior, with very simple rules. She is trying to hide behind one of the two rocks: the farthest from my own avatar (Chnoum Milena).

The interesting thing in this video [...]


A crazy arsonist must live in Bot City: there are fire incidents everydays. But firefighters never fail to save the island thanks to MASA Group SWORD Critical Infrastructure Simulation.

“HD” version on Vimeo


A short and very simple demonstration of  the pathfinding and collision avoidance abilities of Hotep Milena, our receptionnist on MASA Group island.

Alexis Tabary


Here is a short video of a little chat with Hotep Milena, the receptionnist on our island. As you can notice there are a couple of things to improve: she speaks a little bit too fast, and she is too static. But I’m confident that she will learn quickly…

As I am writing you won’t actually [...]


Our simulation service is now fully connected to Second Life. Here is a building of Bot City in fire, firefighters are operating inside the building, fighting the fire and gathering people in a rescue point. Of course, all avatars firefighters and inhabitants are fully autonomous bots.


I noticed a problem on most islands in Second Life, specially on corporate islands: they are empty. Not empty in the way that there is nothing on them: they are usually nicely designed, with nice buildings, terraces and gardens. But there is nobody, no other avatars, and nothing to interact with. Maybe a panel [...]


Here are the first screenshots of our upcoming virtual training area. Buildings are more or less “imported” from MASA Group Sword Critical Infrastructure 3D assets.
Next step: populate the area with simulated firefighters.


MASA Group will exhibit at the VW08 conference in april. Our booth will demonstrate how MASA Group Behavior Models technology can enhance user experience in virtual worlds and provide new opportunities within them.
For demonstrating purpose we will develop a showcase of Behavior Models on the MASA Group Island in Second Life (private for the moment) [...]


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