Wired article: Voice Chat Can Really Kill the Mood on WoW

I bet somebody could make a fair amount of money by creating software that performed pitch modification specifically designed to make people sound like less of a dork while using voice chat in online games.

A quick idea I had which I wanted to toss into the open...

A little while back I read this Wired article about the (Snow Crash-like) Second Life virtual world, and its active virtual economy:

Wired: Making a Living in Second LifeIf I have any spare time this summer (hah!), I think I might try using Second Life's economy and scriptable world to ( Read more... )

I wonder if there are any interesting ways to somehow combine social software (blogs, wikis, social tagging like del.icio.us and flickr, etc) and computer vision. For that matter, I wonder if there's any way to add AI/agent stuff into the mix, besides the obvious, like Latent semantic analysis or Dirichlet goodness ( Read more... )