Virtual Idol
- Virtual Idol is a monthly magazine focusing on pretty female characters from games and female seiyuu. The first 8 issues of Virtual Idol came out in an irregular schedule, but it became monthly with volume 9.
- http://www.usagi.org/~doi/seiyuu/books/virtual-idol/

Esprit & HUMANOID: simulating virtual people
- The simulation of realistic virtual humans, who can interact within a 3-D environment and with the user, will improve the ability to create convincing human animation in the entertainment industry.
- http://cordis.europa.eu/esprit/src/results/res_area/hpnc/hpnc20.htm

i Lip Sync
- Flash animated talking characters. Commercial site. Provides lip synchronising virtual host for your website.
- http://www.ilipsync.net

CMU SCS OZ Project
- The Oz Project at CMU is developing technology and art to help artists create high quality interactive drama, based in part on AI technologies. This especially means building believable agents in dramatically interesting micro-worlds.
- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/oz.html

Virtual Human Interaction Lab
- The mission of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University is to understand the dynamics and implications of interactions among people in immersive virtual reality simulations (VR).
- http://www.stanford.edu/group/vhil/

The Bot Factory
- Interactive virtual characters with voice and lip synchronization. Works with any web browser.
- http://www.thebotfactory.com

MIT Media Lab Synthetic Characters
- The goal of the Synthetic Characters Group at the MIT Media Laboratory is to understand how to build interactive characters that come alive in the eyes of the people who interact with them.
- http://characters.media.mit.edu/

luminous shadows - fantasy character design
- The collected character designs and animations of johnathan darkly, featuring fantasy, science fiction and contemporary virtual actors.
- http://luminousshadows.com/

CodeBaby
- CodeBaby is a leader in web-based virtual agent technology, and enables corporations to integrate state-of-the-art, interactive 3D characters with their websites and online services.
- http://www.codebaby.com

C&C Creations
- C & C Creations. Virtual Characters, Chatterbots and Talking Agents for your website.
- http://www.frontiernet.net/~dlcowart/main.html

Realtime virtual characters
- MOTEK. Designs and produces a wide variety of 3D characters for use in VR of any format.
- http://www.e-motek.com

3D Virtual character actors for animation
- 3D Cartoons, CG Animation, Virual Actors, Characters and Performers. Illustration, Design and Stop Motion animation.
- http://www.theclayman.com

Conversive, Inc.
- Conversive's interactive knowledge management solutions complement existing applications and give them new functionality. Our proprietary Conversive Application Platform acts as a natural language interface layer for web pages, intranets and other digital
- http://www.conversive.com/

NYU Media Research Lab
- The MRL's Responsive Animated Character research involves applying Prof. Ken Perlin's noise techniques from image rendering to character movement.
- http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/projects/improv/

Virtual Reality Laboratory
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The laboratory is mainly involved in the modelling and animation of Three-Dimensional Inhabited Virtual Worlds.
- http://vrlab.epfl.ch/

Center for Human Modeling and Simulation
- University of Pennsylvania. The Center for Human Modeling and Simulation exists to investigate computer graphics modeling and animation techniques for embodied agents, virtual humans, and their applications.
- http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~graphics/

Georgia Tech Animation Lab
- Animation Lab at Georgia Tech. We are interested in the simulation and animation of dynamic motion such as running, diving, and bicycling.
- http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/animation/

Virtual Humans and Conversational Agents
- Papers by Curry Guinn (RTI, Duke University) on virtual humans, conversational agents, synthetic characters, virtual personalities, computational models of human behavior, facial gesture, body gesture, and lip synching.
- http://www.cs.duke.edu/~cig/interests/avatars.html

RTI International: Avatalk
- Technology that enables spoken natural language dialog with virtual humans for training applications.
- http://www.rti.org/avatalk

Responsive Virtual Human Technology
- An NSF funded project led by Research Triangle Institute studying spoken language interaction with virtual characters.
- http://www.rvht.info

noDNA virtual realtime character solutions
- noDNA provides virtual characters, event services with virtual characters, virtual characters for internet applications like knowledge based bots, technology like motion capture devices for body, fingers and face.
- http://www.nodna.com

Virtual People in a Computer World
- Describes the process of creating and controlling virtual humans in a virtual world.
- http://www.carnet.hr/cuc/cuc2001/papers/a2.pdf

Boston Dynamics
- Cambridge MA. Boston Dynamics is a leading provider of human simulation software and services. Its product, DI-Guy, is widely used for adding lifelike humans to real-time simulations. PeopleShop, allows the rapid creation of scenarios with realistic peopl
- http://www.bdi.com/

Virtual Human Web Pointers
- A collection of links to academic and commercial sites of developers and users of virtual humans.
- http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~badler/vhlist.html

DIGITAL QUTIES
- A massive collection of virtual femmes and digital actresses. In japanese.
- http://www.magiccity.ne.jp/~link/3D/

CVSSP: 3D-Vision Virtual People
- Capturing realistic models of individual people to populate virtual worlds.
- http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Research/VSSP/3DVision/VirtualPeople/

Characters Improvisation
- References to autonomous characters that can improvise and react to their environment.
- http://www.red3d.com/cwr/characters.html

Computer Graphics Lab
- LIG is mainly involved in computer animation and virtual reality and teaches computer graphics, virtual reality, and computer vision at the diploma and the doctoral level.
- http://ligwww.epfl.ch/~thalmann/

virtual-personality.de
- virtual characters by interiorsphere
- http://www.virtual-personality.de

Ananova
- Featuring a virtual newscaster, capable of delivering real-time on-demand news bulletins over the Internet and interactive devices.
- http://www.ananova.com/

Haptek
- Home of Virtual Friends - synthetic talking heads that are able to morph into different shapes, talk via scripts, or act as virtual chat proxies.
- http://www.haptek.com