Proposed Group: Cybernetic Avatar Community Group

The Cybernetic Avatar Community Group has been proposed by Daiya Kato:

The Cybernetic Avatar Community Group aims to discuss and define technologies, architectures, and data standards for the Cybernetic Avatar — a networked embodiment that digitally extends and transmits human physical, perceptual, and cognitive capabilities on the Web.

A Cybernetic Avatar may appear as a tele-operated robot, a virtual body in an augmented space, or a hybrid embodiment connected to human sensorimotor and cognitive data streams.

The group explores how such embodiment can be realized in browsers and web-based environments to enable inclusive participation in social, creative, and professional activities across distance and time.

The mission is to establish open and interoperable specifications for transmitting and synchronizing multimodal human data — motion, vision, audio, haptics, and cognitive states — between human, avatar, and environments on the Web.

You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of 5 supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.

Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team