Virtual Human: Storytelling & Computer Graphics for a Virtual Human Platform

This paper covers several topics and, as a consequence, it describe them without much depth. However, in the context of my thesis it brings some topics with could need further investigation:

• Avalon Virtual Reality System
• X3D
• H|Anim Humanoid Animation Working Group
• OpenSG
• Storyworld creation; Interactive storytelling. -- DirectionML; PlayerML
• Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
• Virtual Human Project
• Virtual Human Editors

Unfortunatelly, some of those projects seems to be dead, or at least I couldn't find the homepage of them. The following image gives a good overview of how the mentioned topics are related: