Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna): Avatar bots emerging ... talking ... and for genealogy platforms? * Google Earth Image - & Genealogy Avatar Bots (of our ancestors), * And agreed, - and yet from within the Google Street View ecosystem perspective, with the upload-able image behind it (or or .mp4 video perspective), this is the first I've seen of a beginning almost-avatar in Google (Google in my experience hasn't done much at all with avatars ... ) ... and it can't talk either!!!! :) since I haven't seen any lip movements on Google platforms ... except perhaps in the Youtube (also Google) animation of Max Ehrmann 'reading' his Desiderata at the end (around slide 90) of my UC Berkeley Anthropology talk * * Doubleday's hummingbird (Cynanthus doubledayi): Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study * UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG talk on F 12/18/2020 at 4 pm PT * * Here's the TSWG video from Friday, 12/18/20 - "SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism" * * Now why can't we head into virtual Harbin right now from home ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ and soak, and do / write / EWVWG ethnography at the e-same time? ... and simply hang out in the pool area socially, as well as head into the pools some times?

Regarding brainstorming about pictures of our ancestors associated with MacLeod places in (the so cool) Google Earth Pro ... and even beginning eventually to talk  ... am wondering too whether the cinematic mp4 below could be part of this initially for a sense of 'physical' presence through movement, for example too, as these images emerge, hypothetically, from Google Earth 'talking' via chat bot software too in the future!