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dennis:
--- Quote from: KvP on 13 Aug 2008, 16:16 ---Here's a little explanation / demonstration of the tech. Around 3.35 it shows an animation of the woman's face. The eyes still look off but otherwise, that's really unsettlingly nice looking.
So basically Johnny was correct, that spherical room was a sort of uber-mocap facility,which allows one to gather data and make a near-perfect recreation of whatever it is you had in the chamber, without any sort of photography or the like. The photo is a person visually retro-engineered by a very powerful computer.
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I like how he refers to the "holodeck" without any qualifiications at all. Dude knows his audience.
KvP:
The animation's quite impressive (and the video was linked in the same Joystiq article as the ATI stuff) but my eye kept being drawn to the edges of her face, particularly on the left (her right) of her face. Definitely not out of the uncanny valley yet.
dennis:
--- Quote from: KvP on 19 Aug 2008, 08:48 ---The animation's quite impressive (and the video was linked in the same Joystiq article as the ATI stuff) but my eye kept being drawn to the edges of her face, particularly on the left (her right) of her face. Definitely not out of the uncanny valley yet.
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Figures, they mention the new ATI chip in the article as well.
I found it on the Kurzweil AI mailing list.
est:
Ok, here's something else I saw just now that is related to this
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4557935.ece
Check out the clip of Emily. You can tell it's CGI, but god damn it is a really well-done video. The little mannerisms she has really makes her seem more realistic.
Johnny C:
I showed this to my mom and she quite rightly pointed out that the capacity for the misuse of technology like that is terrifying.
Imagine a powerful digital modeling of, say, Michelle Obama railing against "whitey." Futz with it enough and it'll look real enough to people who want it to be real. Even if the footage doesn't exist.
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