Historical Virtual Characters — Source Bibliography

About this note

125 web sources gathered 19 September 2026 for research on historical figures as virtual presentations. Citation IDs match the research pass (web:105 through web:229).

Companion notes: Case Study — Jumbo Mana Bonjour Vincent, Case Study — Dimensions in Testimony and StoryFile, Citations — Digital Humans (prior 105-source pass, web:0–web:104).

Topic index

Topic Source IDs
George AI / The Torch / Glenn Beck S105–S114, S160–S169
Histobot theory and academic papers S115, S117, S120, S123, S125, S131
Museum and heritage avatars S116, S119, S121, S122, S126–S130, S132–S139
Digital Einstein S140–S149
Groove Jones (Dallas XR studio) S150–S159
Dimensions in Testimony / Shoah / StoryFile S170–S179
Dalí Lives and art-museum installs S180–S189
Hello History / Humy.ai S190–S199
BASE Hologram / Callas S200–S209
Lincoln Presidential Library S210–S219
Jumbo Mana / Bonjour Vincent S122, S134, S136, S220–S229

George AI and The Torch

S105 — What George AI Is and Is Not (Glenn Beck)

S107 — Glenn Beck Is Giving American History the Grokipedia Treatment (Gizmodo)

S108 — Tech AI Magazine syndication of S106

S110 — Tech AI Magazine global syndication

S111 — Why Glenn Beck Made a Weird AI George Washington (Yahoo / Parker Molloy)

S112 — Daily Beast via Yahoo UK

S113 — Facebook video: Meet George AI

S114 — Mediaite: Beck debuts interview

S160 — Torch Insider pricing page

S161 — Beck X post: memberships live

S162 — PCMag deal page (unrelated AI bundle)

S163 — Glenn Beck to Launch Torch Radio Network (Barrett Media)

S164 — YouTube: Beck announces The Torch

S165 — Glenn Beck iOS app listing

S166 — BleepingComputer AI-training deal (noise)

S168 — Glenn Beck articles index / “Torch is now lit”

S169 — Facebook reel: memberships live


Academic histobots, heritage papers, museum surveys

S115 — Digital Immortality in Palaeoanthropology (Heritage / MDPI XML)

S116 — ENGAGE XR School of AI Historical Figures

S117 — (A)I Cannot See Them (Open Library of Humanities)

S118 — Talk to Historical Figures (Jenova)

S119 — MetaHuman Historical Characters, St Andrews (ResearchGate)

S120 — Speaking with the Past: Joseph Lister RAG character (Heritage)

S121 — Historic Metahumans poster (ASOR / Hata et al.)

S122 — History brought back to life (MoMoLab)

S123 — Virtual Research Participants, ancient Athens/Sparta

S125 — Same MDPI paper as S115 (HTML twin)

S126 — AI experience at Leeds Castle (Museums Association)

S127 — Museum Virtual Humans and SDGs (ResearchGate)

S128 — Living History Museum / Genesee Backus IVA

S129 — Designing Reenacted Chatbots (Applied Sciences)

S130 — Historic Metahumans poster (duplicate of S121)

S131 — Duplicate of S117

S132 — ‘Chattable’ Avatars (Jiang & Qin, Cardiff)

S133 — Kris Belden-Adams on Dalí Lives (YouTube / lecture)

S134 — Forbes: Van Gogh clone at Orsay

S135 — TFG: Francisco de Arobe chatbot (UCM / Museo de América)

S136 — Duplicate of S122

S137 — Virtual Humans in Museums survey (Applied Sciences)

S138 — AAAI: Ada and Grace / SimCoach

S139 — Ai Wenwen case (Asia-Pacific journal PDF)


Digital Einstein

S140 — Einstein at CloudFest 2025 (Foro3D)

S141 — Duplicate of S122

S142 — Digital Einstein | ETH Zurich

S143 — Duplicate of S121

S144 — History Lives Project press release (Lifenaut, 2009)

S145 — Immersive Conversations with Digital Einstein (ACM)

S146 — Digital Einstein Linktree

S147 — Foro3D Spanish original of S140

S148 — YouTube: Ask Digital twin of Einstein to lecture

S149 — ALiVE immersive history chatbot (Springer)


Groove Jones

S150 — About Groove Jones

S151 — Capabilities

S152 — Pumpkin Nights XR Avatar Scanner

S153 — FanScan

S154 — Enterprise XR

S155 — Computer Vision / Otter Chat / Dreamforce Einstein

S156 — Case studies index

S157 — Metaverse911 write-up of scanner

S158 — Dan Ferguson interview (Jan 2026)

S159 — LinkedIn product: XR Avatar Scanner


Dimensions in Testimony and StoryFile

S170 — DHHM speaker bios

S171 — Baltimore Sun / Orlando Holocaust Center + StoryFile

S172 — USC Shoah Foundation DiT official

S173 — Tablet: Do Holocaust Survivors Dream of Electric Sheep?

S174 — Same Tablet article (second crawl)

S175 — Wikipedia: Dimensions in Testimony

S176 — Recommendations for Digitally Recording Holocaust Testimony (Sussex)

S177 — Princeton excerpt on algorithmic ethics of DiT

S178 — New Dimensions in Testimony technical paper (Traum et al.)

S179 — CANDLES museum DiT page (Eva Mozes Kor)


Dalí Lives and art-museum tech

S180 — The Dalí Museum 2025 press kit

S181 — Musée Grévin (wax, not AI)

S182 — ADC Awards: Dalí Lives credits

S183 — Dalí Theatre-Museum Figueres tickets (not the FL museum)

S184 — AJC: St. Petersburg Dalí ranking

S185 — Van Gogh Alive 360 FAQs at The Dalí

S186 — Smithsonian: Dalí Lives (2019)

S187 — Loving Vincent (painted feature; analog craft)

S188 — Laurie Anderson Dal Vivo (1998 clone)

S189 — Forbes CZ on Dalí multiples business


S190 — Hello History marketing site

S191 — SimilarLabs profile

S192 — Google Play listing

S193 — Hello History Review 2026 (AI Tool Ranks)

S194 — AI Tech Suite

S195 — AI in Education listing

S196 — Navgood listing

S197 — Software Finder / pricing page

S199 — ToolMage listing


BASE Hologram / Callas

S200 — Callas and the Hologram (scholarly PDF listing)

S201 — Datanyze BASE Hologram profile

S202 — CBS: Bringing musical stars back via hologram

S203 — NPR: Raising the Dead with Callas hologram

S204 — OperaWire: team behind Callas in Concert

S205 — Dallas Opera 2025 revival

S206 — Times (London) review, one star

S207 — Worldcrunch hologram ethics

S208 — Chicago Sun-Times review

S209 — Polyarts / Eímear Noone conductor page


Lincoln Presidential Library

S210 — Lincoln Unlocked launch

S211 — ALPLM exhibits index

S212 — Ghosts of the Library (Holavision)

S213 — CRM Journal 2008 review

S214 — Lincoln artifacts collection

S215 — Picturing Lincoln digitization

S216 — ALPLM + Google XR partnership

S217 — Life and Legacy exhibit 2026

S218 — YouTube: Reimagining History Through Innovation

S219 — Ghosts official exhibit page


Jumbo Mana and Bonjour Vincent

S220 — Jumbo Mana homepage

S221 — PitchBook profile

S222 — Unrelated Mana/RNA video (name collision)

S223 — CLIC France tag feed (Rimbaud, Alexa, Schweitzer)

S224 — CB Insights Jumbo Mana

S225 — La French Touch interview

S226 — Jumbo Mana LinkedIn

S227 — CB Insights financials

S228 — Unrelated Manus AI founder talk

S229 — EuroQuity company profile


Deduped clusters

Cluster IDs
MoMoLab essay S122, S136, S141
Historic Metahumans poster S121, S130, S143
Hedy Lamarr histobot essay S117, S131
Digital immortality MDPI S115, S125
Tablet DiT feature S173, S174
CloudFest Einstein S140, S147
George AI Dec 2025 coverage S105–S114
Torch membership launch S160, S161, S168, S169

Unique high-signal domains after light dedupe: ~95.


Suggested follow-on notes

Compiled 19 September 2026. 125 entries = web:105–web:229.