Is there a Doctor in the machine?

This is the orignal pitch for the ECH program before he was compiled. It was the main page of the project until 10.16.22

The ECH or Emergency Command Hologram is an interactive "life sized" person that will respond to questions from users at live events. 

Based on the kind of avatars seen in Star Trek, Mass Effect, and Harry Potter and built on the biological evolution model of change and complexity over time, the ECH is intended to be a charismatic, entertaining, and informative "person" there to help run a booth or panel room at conventions. 

The system will use the Kinect interface in a sleek durable display to be touchless, so safe for a pandemic at any level. 

 The user selects pre written dialogue choices to keep the conversation going. While their interactions will be limited, the ECH can respond with anything we can imagine... and we can imagine a lot.

Still in it's early development, we will keep you updated via this page and associated dev logs.  The first appearance of the ECH will be at Dragoncon TrekTrack 2022

Much like the Abraham Lincoln animatronic at Disneyland, It is our intent that the ECH will be the testing ground for features that will be added to our flagship Holo-Novel Shuko Sun.  

We expect to expand on lip sinking, facial blends, in house motion tracked animations, multiple character design, AI assisted speech, and more. We'll be able to demo those features faster and more efficiently with this new system.  

While this will be designed to be an in-person activation, we'll be making versions people can interact with here on itch as well. 

We're excited for this development and will have more new for you soon.