January 6, 2004
Mobile Veepers
In an article entitled "Look Who's Talking", Penelope Patsuris for Forbes writes about a new company called Pulse Entertainment.
Pulse has developed a software, dubbed Veepers, which can transform any digital image so that it appears to be speaking, allowing users to create virtual versions of themselves, friends and pets by uploading pictures.
And of interest to this column, mobile Veepers recently launched in Japan via KDDI, the country's second-biggest telecom.
"KDDI now offers what Pulse calls "face tones," which let subscribers choose the image and dialogue that they want to announce incoming phones calls on their camera phones.
The firm hopes for a hit on par with downloadable ring tones and is at work on technology to use cell-phone Veepers to deliver location-based ad messages".
See related article on Pulse Entertainment from PC magazine, Talking Heads on cell phones.
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