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[Aggelos]

At a time when visual effects studios have de-aged veteran actors, allowed human performers to inhabit digital creations, and even brought deceased artists back for postmortem performances, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that a VFX studio can also make it possible for you to find yourself chatting with an artificially intelligent digital person about your favorite books and mutually lamenting the inability to visit a movie theater. No doubt that Autonomous Digital Humans will be become a thing of the foreseeable future.
Remember that Digital Domain is a VFX company founded by James Cameron and (the late) Stan Winston, so maybe Skynet is not so far away after all.

Digital Domain - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[T8SC]

Founded by James Cameron.

Avatar 2, I'm ready.

 

[Biff]

Look, I hate to be a prick but they seriously had to choose this guy as the model?

I couldn't tell who was the robot in the Zoom meeting in the first video because the real guy's face is fucked up as is - he's got a problem with the right side of his face that makes him look weird in real life.

I'm sorry for being mean but it detracts from the value of their tremendous efforts.

 

[TheMan]

Look, I hate to be a prick but they seriously had to choose this guy as the model?

I couldn't tell who was the robot in the Zoom meeting in the first video because the real guy's face is fucked up as is - he's got a problem with the right side of his face that makes him look weird in real life.

I'm sorry for being mean but it detracts from the value of their tremendous efforts.

lol, I was kinda wondering why they didn't pick someone good looking

Otherwise this thing is mighty impressive still deep in uncanny valley

 

[Aggelos]

Founded by James Cameron.

Avatar 2, I'm ready.

Just a side note -> the Lead Visual Effects company was Weta Digital, for Avatar ("To help finish preparing the special effects sequences on time, a number of other companies were brought on board, including Industrial Light & Magic, which worked alongside Weta Digital to create the battle sequences. ILM was responsible for the visual effects for many of the film's specialized vehicles and devised a new way to make CGI explosions").
And so it seems to be with the sequels

Avatar: The Way of Water | Wētā FX

Avatar: The Way of Water in theaters 16 December 2022. Visual Effects by Wētā FX.

www.wetafx.co.nz

Avatar | Wētā FX

Visit the official Wētā FX website for details on their innovative work.

www.wetafx.co.nz

 

[Soodanim]

Fake news really is going to become an issue in the near future, isn’t it?

 

[King of Foxes]

whats wrong with that robot crackas eye

 

[poppabk]

Look, I hate to be a prick but they seriously had to choose this guy as the model?

I couldn't tell who was the robot in the Zoom meeting in the first video because the real guy's face is fucked up as is - he's got a problem with the right side of his face that makes him look weird in real life.

I'm sorry for being mean but it detracts from the value of their tremendous efforts.

"their Senior Director of Software R&D"
Guess who is having their 'boss' zoom call HR to give them a bonus and extra paid time off.

 

[Aggelos]

Doug Roble

Doug Roble has found a career combining the things he loves: math, computers, movies and imagination.

www.ted.com

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Aggelos]

 

[Alebrije]

How does it performs in photo mode?

 

[Alebrije]

Fake news really is going to become an issue in the near future, isn’t it?

Yep...digital advances are good and nedeed but human behavior is the same since the begining.

 

[Nobody_Important]

How long until someone somewhere adapts this technology for porn?


Oh who am I kidding someone on that staff probably already has.

 

[Aggelos]

How long until someone somewhere adapts this technology for porn?

Somebody already has.

Spoiler

It so happened that I came across (on twitter) a deepfake with Scarlet Johansson doing porn, the other day. So deepfakes in porn are out and about.
I think they deepfaked Scarlet Johansson over the Russian woman named Polina.
This is Polina below. She kinda has facial similarities with Scarlet Johansson.

I can't believe we're discussing porn again. It pops up everywhere in our culture.







Same gonna happen with Metahumans.

 

[Aggelos]

 

[GymWolf]

I love this shit.