Multi User Full Body Avatars

This example shows how you can have full body avatars in Multi-User that will animate with speaking animations, use mouth morphs to move each user's mouth, save the audio, automatically transcribe it and play it back with the session replay. 

Running the Script

• Configure options (see below)

• Modify or add new environment, avatars, interactions or additional objects

• Setup regions or objects of interest if needed

• Setup speech options

  • Discord (additionally, set "Push to Talk" options in Voice and Video to enable speaking animations alongside talking)

  • Radmin and other options

• Set up additional options if running on separate networks

• Run server and clients

• Review data

  • Session Replay

  • Video Recording

  • Audio transcriptions

  • Raw data

    • Adding additional data

• Add additional functionality if needed from example templates

• Modify code if needed

Configuration 

Open the Conversation_Config.py file and configure the following options. 

• ENVIRONMENT: Not necessary to set if using GUI. User your own or find ones in utils/resources/environment

Avatar Configuration Options

• AVATAR_MODEL: Add avatar model to use. Use your own or find some in utils/resources/avatar/full_body

• AVATAR_MODEL2: Choose avatar for second user, if needing more than 2, can copy and paste code to increase number

• AVATAR1_POS: Choose position of first avatar

• AVATAR1_ORI: Choose orientation of first avatar

• AVATAR2_POS: Choose position of second avatar

• AVATAR2_ORI: Choose orientation of second avatar

• TALK_ANIMATION: The animation index for the avatar's talking animation.

• IDLE_ANIMATION: The animation index for the avatar's idle or default pose.

• NECK_BONE, HEAD_BONE, SPINE_BONE: String names of the bones used for the follow viewpoint (can find these by opening the avatar model in Inspector)

• TURN_NECK: Boolean flag if the neck needs to initially be turned 

• NECK_TWIST_VALUES: List of values defining the neck's twisting motion (format: [yaw, pitch, roll]).

• MOUTH_OPEN_ID: The ID number of the morph target for opening the mouth (find in Inspector). 

• BLINKING: Boolean flag to enable or disable blinking animations.

• BLINK_ID: The ID number of the morph target for blinking.

• DISABLE_LIGHTING_AVATAR: Boolean flag if lighting in environment is too blown out for the avatar

• ATTACH_FACE_LIGHT: Boolean flag to attach a light source to the avatar's face.

• FACE_LIGHT_BONE: The name of the bone to which the face light is attached if ATTACH_FACE_LIGHT is true.

Additional Configuration Options

• STARTING_POSITION, STARTING_POSITION2: Adjust where you start, should be same as avatar position, but may vary between headsets

• USE_KEY_FOR_SPEECH: Boolean flag to hold down a key to speak, set to 'c' by default, can synchronize this with "push to talk" in Discord

• SIMULATE_KEY_PRESS_FOR_DISCORD : Boolean flag to simulate a keypress to Discord

• KEY_TO_SIMULATE : Currently set to 'c' key, but should be same key set in discord if using "Push to Talk"

• RECORD_AUDIO : Saves an mp3 file to utils/recordings

• USE_PASSTHROUGH : Choose if using Mixed Reality Passthrough (select 'empty.osgb' for environment)

• BIOPAC_ON: Choose whether to connect with Biopac Acqknowledge to measure physiological responses

• SET_CONTINUE_KEY : Set Key to Start and Stop Experiment

• STARTING_TEXT : Set Starting Text

• USE_KEYS_TO_NAVIGATE_SERVER_VIEW : Set to use keyboard commands to navigate the server view (see Controls page)

• HIDE_HUD : Hide the HUD overlays

• HIDE_GAZE_POINT : Hide the Gaze Point

Interaction

1. • If HOLD_KEY_TO_SPEAK is True, hold either the 'c' key or the RH grip button to start speaking, let go to stop

   • See this page for additional controls, including server navigation controls

   • Press 't' to get the position of the server view, this can then be copied and pasted into the code to change the starting viewpoint

Modifying Environment and Avatar(s)

1. • See this page for places to get new assets (works with Avaturn, ReadyPlayerMe, Reallusion, Mixamo, RocketBox, and other fbx avatar libraries)

   • Place environment model in utils/resources/environment for default location, or reference the new path

   • For adding new avatars see this page https://sightlab.worldviz.com/examplestemplates/adding-avatar-agents 

   • Modify the config file to update the environment and avatar path, as well as avatar options