Virtual Pet

Virtual pet research focuses on creating realistic and interactive digital animal companions, primarily for entertainment and therapeutic applications. Current efforts concentrate on developing advanced rendering techniques, such as neural implicit representations and octree-based models, to achieve photorealistic visuals and natural movements, often leveraging motion capture data and generative models. These advancements are improving human-computer interaction, particularly in virtual and augmented reality, and contribute to broader fields like robotics and AI by exploring embodied AI and intuitive control interfaces.