Media technology company Big Stage Entertainment has concluded its beta program and launched BigStage.com, where anyone can create a free, animated 3-D “Digital You” for instant projection into the online landscape.

On BigStage.com, anyone can easily create a sophisticated, animated, 3-D model of their face for free by using only one to three photos taken with a digital camera. Big Stage Entertainment’s proprietary software allows users to upload these photos to BigStage.com, where the Company’s patented technology maps the contours of the face to produce a high-fidelity 3-D model in minutes. Invisible to users, the complex 3-D data is then processed to develop a highly accurate and animated personal digital clone. Users can create an unlimited number of literal and fantasy @ctors on BigStage.com.

To create and view @ctors in action, users need to install the Big Stage Media Player. Once the player is installed, @ctors can be styled instantly with accessories including hair, eyeglasses, hats and clothing, and can be projected into a variety of digital media experiences, including social networks, online communities, video clips, backgrounds, still images, greetings and more. Friends’ @ctors can also be placed into content, which is shareable via email forwarding and Web site embeds, in addition to saving to social networks and porting to YouTube by video capture.

Big Stage Entertainment’s life-like 3-D @ctors are based on advanced stereo reconstruction technology funded by CIA and other government grants, as a research project at the University of Southern California (USC) under the direction of Professor Gerard Medioni, Ph.D. Company founder Jonathan Strietzel first saw the potential for the technology while meeting with the project’s Chief Scientist, Doug Fidaleo, Ph.D., at USC. Strietzel then assembled co-founders Jon Kraft and Jon Snoddy, who assisted in refining the technology for consumer applications through extensive research and development at Big Stage Entertainment.

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