If you like having RSS-enabled news and blog articles read to you (somewhat slowly) by a computer-generated news anchor, then News at Seven is for
you.
It’s the brainchild of Northwestern University’s Intelligent Information Laboratory. The content is automatically generated and spoken through a series of characters from Half-Life 2 in settings that range from a virtual studio to man-on-the-virtual-street locations.
Is this the future of newscasting? Will news from war zones be conducted via armored camera-toting machines designed by iRobot and read by celebrity avatars in Second Life?
They report. You decide.
Daniel Modell
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