☕ David Antoine Short VFX breakdown, facial rendering (mid 2015). There is still that uncanny valley making it look artificial but it's pretty impressive. I wonder if and when will they reach that point where we won't be able to differentiate between a CGI character and a real human... youtube.com/watch?...
Mark Dain Holy hell if this is the future of graphics... I can barely tell she's not real! Imagine a day where characters in games or movies can be created exactly how someone imagines. I've also seen some leaps (of a sort) in speech synthesis: youtube.com/watch?... combine these two and Skyrim would have a field day.
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😀 Tom Just imagine someone doing that with normal speech, and your voice. What about the President's/Prime Minister's/King's/etc voice? "Fake News" is going to be a lot more worrisome in the future. Combine that with facial rendering, and you could easily have a convincing video of a world leader announcing that aliens have landed.
☕ David Antoine Yes I can imagine that perfectly since I found another video few months ago. Real time face capture and reenacment. I don't know whether that technique could be coupled with CGI facial rendering or not but, on its own, its already pretty advanced and will surely be used for propaganda purposes... That's frightening. Just manipulate a video, and you have your "proof" or your new dictator to go against and start a war... Easy, fast and appalling. youtube.com/watch?...
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☕ David Antoine And that VFX tech is nearly 2 years old... I guess they will inevitably make that looking 100% real in the (near ?) future. I'm just not sure what will be the balance between good and bad applications, like every tech... But I would not mind to see that used for games. And Realivox is impressive too !
Mark Dain I was thinking this today after watching an incredible talk; youtube.com/watch?... if we made flawless software that had no security holes and had foolproof privacy, law enforcement would never have stopped that child porn website. Technology can be used for bad, disgusting things but we should continue working on censorship and surveillance resistant software, for the sake of people in oppressive regimes, for the future Snowdens, for journalists; all people with good reasons to use strong encryption. Unfortunately, public infrastructure is also used by criminals and I don't know of any way to prevent that.