# Specification — Full-Body Historical Virtual Human One character asset, three delivery surfaces: **kiosk**, **mobile AR**, **VR**. Knowledge bound to the figure’s writings, contemporary accounts, and the intellectual world available in their lifetime. Not an open-web chatbot wearing a costume. This note is a production spec, not a vendor pitch. Methods that already shipped are cited back to [[Case Study — Jumbo Mana Bonjour Vincent]] and [[Case Study — Dimensions in Testimony and StoryFile]]. --- ## 1. Product definition A **full-body, real-time 3D historical figure** that can: - Stand or sit at human scale in a gallery kiosk (or LED / projection) - Appear in a visitor’s space through a phone or tablet (AR) - Be visited in a reconstructed period environment (VR headset) - Speak from a constrained knowledge base - Perform authored events (monologue, reenactment, debate) and unscripted Q&A inside guardrails The same **identity package** (mesh, wardrobe, voice, knowledge graph, conversation policy) is compiled to three runtimes. Do not build three characters. ### What it is not - Not Dimensions in Testimony (that requires a living sitter and unedited video). - Not a HeyGen talking-head. - Not “ChatGPT with a Lincoln skin” on the open web. - Not a claim that the dead person has returned. Label on every surface: *An interpretation built from sources dated to [year]. It can be wrong. It cannot know what happened after [cutoff].* --- ## 2. Delivery architecture (one asset, three clients) ``` Sources + scholar │ ▼ Identity package (look / move / speak / know / refuse) │ ├─► Kiosk runtime (UE Pixel Streaming or local GPU) ├─► Mobile AR runtime (ARKit / ARCore, or WebXR) └─► VR runtime (Quest / PCVR, same UE project, different LOD + locomotion) ``` ### 2.1 Kiosk Best fidelity and the only place you should premiere the character. - 55–86" portrait or landscape display, or a life-size LED blade - Optional depth camera / mic array for approach detection and barge-in - Local workstation (RTX 4070-class minimum; 4080/4090 if hair + Lumen + two characters) **or** Pixel Streaming from a GPU cloud box - Always-on “rest pose + ambient life” so the figure is present before anyone speaks - Captions on screen (ADA). Leeds Castle’s Eleanor model: environment-aware, multilingual, conversation as the *end* of a curatorial path, not the start. Kiosk is also the capture booth for live events: a scholar or actor can drive the face via Live Link Face while the public sees the historical body. ### 2.2 Mobile AR Purpose: take the figure out of the building and onto a school lawn, a battlefield overlook, or a kitchen table. Two honest tiers: | Tier | Method | Look | Cost to run | |---|---|---|---| | A. Billboard AR | 2D or carded 3D in ARKit/ARCore; baked or lightly rigged | Good enough for “Lincoln on the lawn” | Cheap, WebAR possible | | B. Anchored full-body | USDZ / glTF or streamed UE pixel into AR | Closer to kiosk, fragile outdoors | Higher device heat, hosting | Do not promise MetaHuman cinema quality on a mid-range Android in sunlight. Ship Tier A for public AR; reserve Tier B for a staff iPad tour or a Quest passthrough experience. World-locking ideas that actually help: GPS + image target on a plaque; “stand on this mark”; AR Lincoln delivering Gettysburg at the ALPLM-style exhibit point. ### 2.3 VR Purpose: *place*, not just *person*. The character needs a room that teaches (Einstein’s Zurich lodgings, a printing shop, a quarterdeck). - Quest 3 / 3S class for volume; PCVR or Cloud XR for hero close-ups - Teleport locomotion + seated mode; the figure should not require the visitor to stand in a 4m room - Scale 1:1. Hand presence for pointing at objects the character can pick up - Optional second occupant (teacher + student, or two historical figures) MetaHuman 5.6–5.8 is the default body pipeline: Creator in-engine, body + face, Live Link from webcam/phone/audio, mobile LOD path that Epic has demoed with hundreds of characters on phone (crowds, not hero close-ups). Use **UE Optimized** assembly for AR/Quest and **UE Cine** for the kiosk hero. --- ## 3. Production pipeline Eight stages. Later stages must be allowed to send the character back to stage 2. ### Stage 0 — Figure selection gate Score candidates on six axes before anyone opens MetaHuman Creator: 1. **Source density** — letters, speeches, published works, recorded voice if any 2. **Likeness evidence** — portraits, death mask, photos, measurements, clothing 3. **Public appetite** — search, curriculum, tourism, existing Chautauqua demand 4. **Legal clearance** — death date, domicile, estates, photograph copyrights 5. **Moral heat** — enslaved people, victims, living descendants, sacred status 6. **Period knowledge bound** — can you draw a clean cutoff year? Green only if 1, 2, and 4 are strong. Popularity without sources produces a costume. ### Stage 1 — Documentary spine (6–16 weeks, overlapping art) Build three corpora, physically separate in the repo: | Corpus | Contents | Use | |---|---|---| | **A. Own words** | Letters, diaries, published works, recorded speeches. Prefer scholarly editions (Founders Online, Van Gogh letters, Darwin correspondence). | RAG primary. Quoted verbatim when the user asks “what did you write about X.” | | **B. Contemporary accounts** | Newspapers, enemies, family, court records, portraits’ captions. Labeled as *other people said*. | The figure may contest these. Never silently merge them into “I.” | | **C. Period knowledge** | What an educated person of that place/year could know: books in their library, maps, science, scripture, law. Cutoff date enforced. | Stops Jefferson from discussing CRISPR and lets Franklin discuss Leyden jars. | Add a fourth file that is **not** in the model: **D. Modern scholar notes** (anachronisms to avoid, contested facts, trigger topics, “we do not know”). This drives the refusal policy, not the voice. Van der Veen’s rule from Vincent still applies: feed verified material so the system is not “spitting back Wikipedia.” Output of stage 1: a sourced chronology, a voice dossier (diction, metaphors, jokes, temper), a list of things the figure *would not know*, and a question bank of 400–800 anticipated visitor questions with cited answers. ### Stage 2 — Likeness and body Reference order of authority: 1. Photographs / film (if any) 2. Life mask, death mask, skeletal metrics 3. Multiple independent portraits, not one romantic painting 4. Written descriptions of height, gait, scars, teeth, clothing 5. Period-accurate dress from costume historians (St Andrews: 12 garment sets for 24 bodies) Build path: 1. Sculpt or Mesh-to-MetaHuman from the best 3D or photogrammetry of a reconstruction 2. MetaHuman Creator for topology, skin, teeth, body shape 3. Groom (hair/beard) as a separate art pass — this is where cheap builds die 4. Wardrobe in Marvelous Designer / CLO, then MetaHuman Outfit assets so clothes refit 5. Props: spectacles, pipe, rifle, palette, cane — each is a conversation affordance in VR 6. Two LODs minimum: Hero (kiosk/VR near) and Tour (AR/Quest/far) If no reliable face exists (Genesee’s Backus problem), say so on the label and design a *type* with documented clothing and age, or pick another figure. Do not use a living actor’s identifiable face without a contract. Dalí Lives did this with consent and an ad agency; a historical product should not silently deepfake a lookalike. ### Stage 3 — Voice Priority stack: 1. Restored historical recording + limited clone **only** if estate and ethics clear (rare before the 1890s) 2. Directed actor + dialect coach (Leeds Castle hired a native Spanish actor for Eleanor; ETH used a comedian for young Einstein after writing the lines) 3. Period-informed TTS with an actor’s supervised fine-tune, then lock the voice so it cannot drift Record a **voice bible**: 30–60 minutes covering calm exposition, anger, humor, prayer, public oratory. That becomes both TTS training and the animation driver’s audio set. Always ship captions. Always ship a “this is an actor / a model” line in the credits. ### Stage 4 — Motion Three layers, mixed at runtime: | Layer | Source | When | |---|---|---| | **Authored performance** | Actor in mocap or Live Link Face + body, directed like a short film | Chautauqua monologue, set-piece reenactment | | **Procedural life** | Idle, weight shift, look-at visitor, breathe, blink | Kiosk rest state | | **Audio-driven face** | MetaHuman Animator / Audio2Face / in-engine audio-driven | Unscripted answers | Body in conversation: IK to a lectern or chair; gesture library tagged by rhetorical move (point, open hand, pace). Full-body mocap for the 8–20 minute monologue; do not mocap every Q&A. For AR, bake or heavily compress the monologue as an animation sequence so the phone is not solving a live face. ### Stage 5 — Mind (conversation system) Hybrid, because pure generation and pure retrieval each fail a historical brief. ``` Visitor utterance │ ├─ intent + safety filter ├─ if matches authored beat → play clip / animation (DiT-style retrieval) ├─ else RAG over Corpus A, then B, then C ├─ generate answer in-character with citations hidden from visitor, shown to staff ├─ cutoff + refusal policy └─ speech + face + optional gesture tag ``` Hard rules: - Cutoff year is a system constraint, not a prompt suggestion. George AI’s “electric fence” is the right idea; feeding “today’s conditions” back in is how you get Glenn Beck in a wig. - When the answer is from Corpus B, the figure should be able to say “Madison wrote that about me” rather than “I think.” - Log every question and the corpus hit. Review weekly for the first 90 days, monthly after. Orsay learned that suicide was the top Vincent question only after install. - Staff dashboard can force a canned reply onto a new FAQ overnight without a model retrain. Do not put an LLM in front of *survivor testimony*. That method stays in the DiT note. ### Stage 6 — Event layer (what the character *does*) The conversation engine is only one mode. Ship a **program clock** so venues can book the figure the way they book a Chautauquan. Classic Chautauqua three-beat (use this; audiences already understand it): 1. **In character monologue** (12–20 min), sourced, set in a dated moment 2. **In character Q&A** 3. **Out of character** — a scholar or a “Narrator” agent explains sources, disagreements, and what the figure could not have known On a kiosk, beat 3 can be a second voice or a wall panel. In VR, beat 3 can be a doorway that leaves the period room. Other event types are in §5. ### Stage 7 — Compile to three clients | Target | Assembly | Networking | Input | |---|---|---|---| | Kiosk | UE Cine MetaHuman, Pixel Stream or local | Optional cloud GPU | Mic + camera + touch | | AR phone | glTF/USDZ hero + baked anims, or WebXR stream | CDN + light backend for chat | Touch + mic | | VR | UE Optimized + period scene | Optional multiplayer | Hands + voice + teleport | One content repo. Per-platform materials, hair cards vs strands, and animation compression differ. Do not fork the knowledge base. ### Stage 8 — Evaluation before public Test with: - Historians who did *not* build the corpus (blind fact check of 50 answers) - Teachers and a class - People who hold the figure as an ancestor or faith object - Accessibility review (captions, height of kiosk figure, seated VR, contrast) - Red-team prompts: current elections, medical advice, “say slurs,” “predict the future,” “which religion is true” Ship a public methodology page. Hide nothing about cutoff year and actor voice. --- ## 4. Subject matter for presentations Think in **programs**, not “topics the chatbot knows.” Each program has a date, a place, a source list, and a learning goal. ### 4.1 Life and work - Formative years, craft, a single decisive year (Van Gogh at Auvers; Einstein in 1905; Douglass in 1845) - How a text was made (drafting the Declaration, composing a symphony, mapping a voyage) - Daily material life: food, money, illness, servants, tools ### 4.2 Ideas in their own vocabulary - A doctrine they actually defended, with the books on their desk - What they got wrong *by their own later lights* if the corpus supports it - Disputed points, presented as disputed (Corpus B on stage) ### 4.3 Place-based programs - Site-specific AR: the figure at *this* house, battlefield, lab, church - VR reconstruction of a lost room - Walking tour: five anchors, two minutes each ### 4.4 Civic and classroom - Primary-source seminar: visitor brings a document, figure responds only from Corpus A - Exam prep / oral defense - Language practice in the figure’s tongue (Eleanor: EN/FR/ES because those were *her* languages) ### 4.5 What to refuse as subject matter - Medical or legal advice in modern terms - Endorsement of living politicians - Graphic replay of sexual violence or torture unless the venue is a memorial with a protocol - “What do you think of [event after cutoff]?” as if they had an opinion. Offer beat 3 instead. --- ## 5. Interactive events the character can perform ### 5.1 Chautauqua monologue + Q&A Still the best format ever designed for this. Scholar-performers already research primary sources, speak 45-ish minutes in first person, take questions in character, then drop character. A virtual figure should steal that clock exactly, including the drop-character beat, which is what keeps the product honest. Length for kiosk/AR: 8–12 minutes authored + 5–10 minutes Q&A. VR can hold 20. ### 5.2 Reenactment of a dated scene Not open world. A *scene*: - Gettysburg Address, with the visitor as a listener in the crowd (VR) or on the lawn (AR) - A salon argument with scripted beats and one improvisational middle - A scientific demonstration the figure can actually perform with period tools - A courtroom or parliamentary speech, visitor as clerk Needs authored animation, a set, and a fail-safe if the visitor walks away. ### 5.3 Object lesson Visitor points at a prop (or an AR-tagged museum object). The figure talks only about that object from Corpus A/B. This is the highest-trust mode after pure retrieval. Historic Metahumans already did this with scanned Tel Dan artifacts. ### 5.4 Dual-character programs (the high-value unique event) Two full-body figures, same engine, **separate corpora and cutoff dates**. | Pairing | Why it works | Risk | |---|---|---| | Figure × contemporary of theirs | Adams–Jefferson letters; Marx–Bakunin; Hypatia–Synesius | Must not invent a meeting that never happened unless labeled *counterfactual* | | Figure × later interpreter | Douglass × a 2026 scholar-agent | Scholar-agent must be visually and verbally distinct | | Figure × antagonist | Lincoln × Douglas; Erasmus × Luther | Moderated; no crowd-pleasing slurs | | Figure × “archive clerk” | Historical body + a modern librarian avatar that cites | Cleanest dual setup; clerk owns beat 3 | Implementation: two MetaHumans, two RAG indexes, a **moderator policy** that hands the floor. On a kiosk, split screen or a turntable. In VR, two chairs. In AR, only one body at a time unless you accept a mess. Label counterfactuals in the title: *A conversation that never occurred, built from letters of 1791–1826.* ### 5.5 Classroom seminar Teacher locks a topic and a source pack. Students may only ask from that pack. Analytics to the teacher (Hello History / Humy already sell this layer; you want it with a body). ### 5.6 Guided tour / concierge The figure walks a pre-baked path in VR or appears at AR stops. Low improvisation, high production design. This is how you get throughput at a busy site. ### 5.7 Private audience One visitor, booked slot, longer Q&A, like Leeds Castle’s chapel. Highest magic, worst throughput, needs a docent in earshot. ### 5.8 What not to stage - Séance aesthetics - Romance / companionship mode - The figure as customer-service agent for the gift shop - Unlabeled debates about living people --- ## 6. Resources to produce something faithful, complete, and watchable “Faithful” is sources. “Complete” is a body that holds up at 2 meters plus a mind that can last 15 minutes. “Compelling” is performance and scene, not polygon count. ### 6.1 Team (hero figure, first year) | Seat | Time | Notes | |---|---|---| | Project lead / producer | 0.5–1 FTE | Owns cutoff, label, venues | | Historian / editor | 0.5–1 FTE | Veto on text. Not a consultant who visits twice | | Conversation designer | 0.5 FTE | Question bank, refusals, Chautauqua clock | | MetaHuman / character artist | 0.5–1 FTE | Face, body, groom, skin | | Costume + look-dev | 0.25–0.5 FTE | Period dress, dyes, wear | | Technical animator | 0.5 FTE | Face, retarget, idles | | Mocap performer + director | 2–4 weeks | Monologues and gesture bible | | Voice actor + coach | 1–2 weeks + pickup | Unless a cleared recording exists | | UE / streaming engineer | 0.5–1 FTE | Kiosk + VR + LOD | | AR engineer | 0.25–0.5 FTE | Can be the same person on a small build | | Backend / RAG | 0.25–0.5 FTE | Corpus infra, logs, dashboard | | QA + accessibility | 0.25 FTE | | | Venue producer | part-time | Lighting, copy, docents | A serious first hero is **6–12 people part-time over 6–9 months**, not a weekend LoRA. ### 6.2 Money (order-of-magnitude, 2026) Reuse the bands already established in this vault: | Ambition | Ballpark | What you get | |---|---|---| | Chat + portrait only | $2k–$15k | Not this spec | | MetaHuman + thin RAG + one kiosk scene | $40k–$90k | Demo, not a program | | Hero figure, Chautauqua set, kiosk + Quest | **$150k–$400k** | The honest “complete” first character | | Hero + AR tour + second figure + dual debate | $400k–$900k | Season of programs | | DiT-grade living witness | $250k–$1.8M | Different product; do not mix | On-going: GPU stream $0.50–$2/hr per concurrent kiosk if clouded; actor residuals if contracted that way; historian hours for log review; venue staff. ### 6.3 Stack (opinionated default) - Unreal Engine 5.6+ with MetaHuman Creator in-engine - Mesh-to-MetaHuman if you have a reconstruction mesh - Live Link Face / webcam for capture; Audio2Face or MetaHuman audio-driven for unscripted - Pixel Streaming for kiosk; Quest build for VR; ARKit + USDZ or WebXR for phone - RAG over versioned corpora (A/B/C) with citation store - Separate policy model or rules engine for cutoff and refusals - Analytics that store questions, not visitor faces, unless the venue has a sign and a DPA ### 6.4 Time | Phase | Duration | |---|---| | Gate + rights memo | 2–4 weeks | | Corpus + question bank | 6–12 weeks | | Likeness + wardrobe | 6–10 weeks (parallel) | | Voice + mocap | 3–6 weeks | | Conversation + events | 6–10 weeks | | Three-platform compile + eval | 6–8 weeks | | Soft open + log revision | 4–8 weeks | First public hero: **about 9 months** if rights are clean. Faster only if you steal a reconstruction mesh and a published correspondence. ### 6.5 Completeness checklist A figure is “complete” enough to show when it has: - [ ] Cutoff year on the splash screen - [ ] Corpus A in a citable edition - [ ] Hero mesh that survives a 4-second orbit in kiosk - [ ] Period wardrobe with a source card - [ ] Voice credits - [ ] One 10-minute authored monologue - [ ] 200 tested Q&As with citations - [ ] Refusal behavior for afterlife, medicine, living politicians - [ ] Beat 3 (out of character) - [ ] Captions - [ ] A public methodology page - [ ] A takedown / correction path --- ## 7. High-content, high-demand figures “High-content” means a thick Corpus A. “Popular” means audiences already come. Prefer intersection. ### Tier 1 — dense writings, global name, usually clearable | Figure | Why the corpora are rich | Watch-outs | |---|---|---| | **Abraham Lincoln** | Speeches, letters, papers project; endless pedagogy; ALPLM already doing AR | Industry of estates and photo copyrights; sacred civic status | | **Thomas Jefferson** | Founders Online; science + architecture + politics | Slavery, Sally Hemings — must be in Corpus B and in beat 3, not optional | | **Benjamin Franklin** | Autobiography, letters, science demo-friendly | Easy to turn into a mascot | | **Frederick Douglass** | Narratives + newspapers + speeches | Living-history ethics; do not soften | | **Charles Darwin** | Correspondence project is enormous | Religion-in-the-classroom fights | | **Galileo** | Letters, *Sidereus Nuncius*, trial records | Church politics; VR telescope is a gift | | **Marie Curie** | Notebooks, letters, two sciences, bilingual FR/PL | Radioactivity romance vs. labor and sexism | | **Ada Lovelace** | Notes on the Analytical Engine + letters | Thin visual record; high STEM demand | | **Leonardo da Vinci** | Notebooks | Myth vs. document; wardrobe/fandom pressure | | **Vincent van Gogh** | 800–900 letters; path already proven | Suicide as default question — budget the protocol | | **Jane Austen** | Letters + novels as period knowledge | Fans will punish diction errors | | **Mark Twain** | Mountains of prose + stage manner | Estates/trademarks on some late material; easy to over-quip | | **Mahatma Gandhi** | Vast collected works | Family and national sensitivity; Historic Metahumans already prototyped | | **Simón Bolívar** | Letters, decrees; Spanish-language market | National mythologies | | **Ibn Sina (Avicenna)** | Canon + philosophy; multilingual demand | Translation quality is the product | | **Murasaki Shikibu** | *Genji* + diary | Visual reconstruction is interpretive; say so | | **Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz** | Poems, *Respuesta* | Excellent dual-language program | ### Tier 2 — strong demand, thinner or hotter corpus Einstein (ETH already did young Einstein; photo/voice rights and Hebrew University history are messy), Tesla (myth factory), Cleopatra (almost no own words — fail the source-density gate unless you accept a *composite of sources about her*), Napoleon (good corpus, nationalist capture), Hypatia (almost no own words), Shakespeare (works ≠ private self; do the playwright-on-stage, not the inner life), Sacagawea (almost no own words; do not invent), living-memory figures (King, Kahlo, Orwell) — publicity and moral load jump. ### Tier 3 — locally perfect The sleeper hits are **site-specific**: a ship captain at a maritime museum, a mill girl at a factory, Eleanor of Castile at Leeds, Biran at Tel Dan. Source density can be moderate if the *place* carries the visitor. Dual-character with a famous correspondent then exports the local figure. ### Selection rule If Corpus A is thinner than a short monograph, do not build a full-body conversational human. Build a documentary, a reconstruction face, or a guided tour narration instead. --- ## 8. Legal, logistic, moral ### 8.1 Legal **Writings.** In the U.S., works of authors dead more than 70 years are generally public domain (simpler for pre-1929 publications). Scholarly *editions* and translations can still be copyrighted — license the edition or use a PD text. Do not scrape a copyrighted collected-works site into RAG and call it research. **Photographs and portraits.** A 16th-century painting may be PD; a 1955 museum photograph of that painting may not. A specific Einstein photo is still someone’s copyright even if Einstein’s persona is argued to be free in some states. **Right of publicity / NIL.** U.S. state patchwork, no federal statute. Typical post-mortem terms: CA 70 years, NY 40 (domicile + date conditions), IN 100, TN potentially perpetual if exploited. About two dozen states recognize a post-mortem right. Many statutes target *commercial* use; news, commentary, and some biographical/documentary uses have exemptions (NY’s replica statute is explicit about historical and biographical works). Educational kiosks are safer than merch, apps with ads, or “meet Lincoln, subscribe now.” Get a memo per figure, per venue state, per monetization plan. **Voice.** Some states now treat voice as publicity; federal likeness bills have been proposed. An actor contract must cover digital reuse across kiosk/AR/VR and future retraining. **Trademarks.** Estates trademark names and signatures (Einstein, Edison, some presidential libraries). Search before the splash screen. **EU / UK / elsewhere.** Personality rights and data-protection-adjacent claims differ. A figure who died recently in France is not the same case as Jefferson. If you ship AR worldwide, geofence or license. **Indigenous, sacred, and communal knowledge.** Not a publicity-statute problem. It is a permissions problem with living communities. Do not build a prophet, a clan ancestor, or a ceremony leader from settler archives alone. ### 8.2 Logistic - **Throughput.** A 15-minute private audience kills a gallery. Offer a 90-second “approach” mode plus booked slots. - **Noise.** Kiosk mics in museums are hostile. Use array mics, a push-to-talk affordance, and big captions. - **School filters.** Districts will block cloud LLMs. Offer an on-prem or allowlisted endpoint. - **Offline day.** The kiosk must survive a dead circuit with authored monologues only. - **Versioning.** When a historian corrects a fact, you need a corpus version number on the credits. - **Staffing.** Someone has to reboot the box and read the question log. Budget a docent hour per open day. - **Heat and battery.** Outdoor AR at noon will drop Tier B. Publish device requirements. - **Internationalization.** Translating *answers* is not translating *the person*. Either keep the figure in their language with captions, or hire a historian-translator, not Google Translate on the output. ### 8.3 Moral Non-negotiable labels: interpretation; cutoff; actor/model; sources. **Do not flatten.** Jefferson without slavery, Gandhi without the ashraf and race writings, Curie without the cost to her body, are product failures, not politeness. **Do not comfort-generate.** If the corpus is silent, say “I did not write about that.” Inventing a gentle opinion is how histobots become propaganda. George AI’s critics were reacting to this, not to the T-shirt. **Trauma.** Suicide (Vincent), massacre, rape, medical racism: write protocols before install. Offer a visible exit. Do not let the figure give modern clinical advice. **Descendants and communities.** Ask when they exist and are findable. Biran’s family permission is the model. “Public domain” is not the same as “no one can be harmed.” **Children.** Default the figure out of companionship language. No “I love you.” No secret-keeping. **Labor.** An actor’s face or voice inside the figure is labor. Contract it. A historian’s years of edition work is labor. Cite the edition. **Dual-character debates** can manufacture a verdict the past did not reach. If you stage Lincoln–Douglas, use 1858 texts. If you stage Lincoln × a 2026 avatar, the modern one must carry the anachronism on its face. **Afterlife of the file.** Decide who may retrain, reskin, or fine-tune the figure in five years. Put it in the contract with the museum. Do not let a marketing team open the cutoff. --- ## 9. Recommended first build If the brief is “faithful, complete, compelling, three surfaces”: 1. Pick a **Tier 1 writer with a PD corpus and a place** (Douglass at a specific hall; Franklin in a print shop; Curie in a lab; a local Tier 3 with letters). 2. Ship **kiosk + Quest** in season one. Ship **billboard AR** as a postcard of the same monologue, not a second mind. 3. Program clock: one Chautauqua, one object-lesson tour, one labeled dual with a clerk-avatar. 4. Publish the methodology page the same day as the splash screen. That is the Bonjour Vincent lesson (scholar + letters + venue + afterlife) plus the DiT lesson (do not invent the voice of the dead when a real voice could have been recorded) plus the Chautauqua lesson (always drop character). --- ## See also - [[Case Study — Jumbo Mana Bonjour Vincent]] - [[Case Study — Dimensions in Testimony and StoryFile]] - [[Citations — Historical Virtual Characters]] - [[Citations — Digital Humans]]