Emotion State Machine × VRM Faces
Replies carry emotion tags into BlendShapes and idle loops — calm, shy, bored shift without hand-authored sticker hacks.
Chibi VRM on your desktop: bubble chat, a short persona quiz at first launch, check-ins and affinity that deepen over time; emotion tags drive expressions and animation; OpenClaw gateway wires agents, memory, and tools locally, with optional cloud auth and billing; fall back to on-device models when you need offline runs.
Three Pillars
Replies carry emotion tags into BlendShapes and idle loops — calm, shy, bored shift without hand-authored sticker hacks.
Mate-Engine speaks WebSocket to one gateway runtime: multi-model agents, memory, plugins, and tools stay coherent; cloud stays thin when you want it.
Route Telegram, Discord, and future inbox bridges into the same agent loop — reminders land beside your cursor.
Cadence
Unity loads VRM, owns the transparent top-most window, drag-and-touch feedback — she occupies real screen estate.
Wire OpenClawBridge + emotion-tagger: gateway payloads replace legacy bubbles; faces track the dialogue.
Three opening questions tune her baseline tone; streaks and affinity nudge how often she reaches out.
Fold STT/TTS extensions in; expand channel plugins so external threads converge on one agent.
Credits, model storefronts, skins — perpetual and subscription tiers share one evolving companion.
Engineering Depth
Generative speech meets structured emotion tags — Unity schedules BlendShapes without brittle timelines.
Transparent HWND plus realtime shading turns presence into pixels, not another browser tab.
One gateway orchestrates models, memory, and plugins; Mate is one ingress among many.
Enterprise rollout, persona packs, or distribution — we demo on hardware, not slides.
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