Leah D'Emilio drops by Santa Monica-based
Image Metrics, a motion-capture company on
the cutting edge of rendering realistic
faces, used on feature films ("Harry Potter
and the Order of the Phoenix") and video
games ("Grand Theft Auto 4"). Leah dons on
the headcam used in performance based facial
animation and discusses the Uncanny Valley.
http://www.mahalo.com/Uncanny_Valley
http://www.mahalo.com/Robotics
http://www.mahalo.com/Animation
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Yes you read correctly, TECH demo. She's
fake. She IS the demo.
Until the 1:30 mark when they revert back to
the source (the real actress), her entire
face is being simulated by the technology.
Peace out uncanny valley!
ps. Thanks to perrygood&true for the HD
source material for this upload.
ps2. Fyi, Times Online broke the coverage on
this particular before any other site. Give
them some clicks.
The Times Online article
http://tinyurl.com/6745dj
Image Metrics Official Website
http://www.image-metrics.com
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In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the
image of a millenium, an image that shows our
place in the universe. Anyone who understands
what this image represents, is forever
changed by it. Tags :astronomyspacecosmologyhubbletelescopesuniverse
HDTV movie here
http://zoome.jp/omeme/diary/2/
pic: Earth-Rise /set from about 380,000 km
away Moon by Kaguya HDTV Cam.
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/img/20071113
_kaguya_02l.jpg
November 7, 2007(JST)
The EarthRise image Wide Shot taken from near
the North Pole, and the Arabian Peninsula and
Indian Ocean can be observed on the Earth.
The Earthset image Tele Shot taken from near
the South Pole, and we can see the Australian
Continent (center left) and the Asian
Continent (lower right) on the Earth.
(C) JAXA/NHK
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/20071012_kag
uya_e.html Tags :JAXAlunaflyoverexplorerprobelunaireTerreTibetハイビジョン