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    Article "GSE developing innovative ‘avatar-guided’ teacher training"
    The new avatar-guided technology is much more versatile and flexible than the current technology, and can be used with a cellphone, iPad and computer.

    by Charles Anzalone
    May 13, 2019

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    Article "The Whitney Houston of the 3D Hologram Tour Will Be Neither 3D nor a Hologram"
    A look at the latest dead-singer hologram tour technology.

    by Jane C. Hu
    May 22, 2019

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    Few-shot adversarial learning of realistic neural talking head models

    Published on May 21, 2019

    Statement regarding the purpose and effect of the technology
    (NB: this statement reflects personal opinions of the authors and not of their organizations)

    We believe that telepresence technologies in AR, VR and other media are to transform the world in the not-so-distant future. Shifting a part of human life-like communication to the virtual and augmented worlds will have several positive effects. It will lead to a reduction in long-distance travel and short-distance commute. It will democratize education, and improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. It will distribute jobs more fairly and uniformly around the World. It will better connect relatives and friends separated by distance. To achieve all these effects, we need to make human communication in AR and VR as realistic and compelling as possible, and the creation of photorealistic avatars is one (small) step towards this future. In other words, in future telepresence systems, people will need to be represented by the realistic semblances of themselves, and creating such avatars should be easy for the users. This application and scientific curiosity is what drives the research in our group, including the project presented in this video.

    We realize that our technology can have a negative use for the so-called “deepfake” videos. However, it is important to realize, that Hollywood has been making fake videos (aka “special effects”) for a century, and deep networks with similar capabilities have been available for the past several years (see links in the paper). Our work (and quite a few parallel works) will lead to the democratization of the certain special effects technologies. And the democratization of the technologies has always had negative effects. Democratizing sound editing tools lead to the rise of pranksters and fake audios, democratizing video recording lead to the appearance of footage taken without consent. In each of the past cases, the net effect of democratization on the World has been positive, and mechanisms for stemming the negative effects have been developed. We believe that the case of neural avatar technology will be no different. Our belief is supported by the ongoing development of tools for fake video detection and face spoof detection alongside with the ongoing shift for privacy and data security in major IT companies.

    Authors:
    Egor Zakharov, Aliaksandra Shysheya, Egor Burkov, Victor Lempitsky

    Article "GANs Create Talking Avatars From One Photo"

    by Mike James
    May 25, 2019

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    Article "Xiaomi’s new Mimoji look awfully familiar, huh"
    Good artists borrow, great artists steal Memoji

    by Nick Statt
    July 2, 2019

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    Article "Trashy Muse put on the world’s first virtual avatar fashion show"
    It’s just like your average runway – except the clothes are digital and so are the ‘people’ wearing them

    July 11, 2019

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    Article "How Robotic Avatars Will Become Ubiquitous in the Future"
    Avatar XPRIZE advisor speaks with us about how robotic avatars will allow humans to do experience more activities, but also fix our dishwasher.

    by Neal Weinberg
    July 16, 2019

    Jacquelyn (Jacki) Morie

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    Article "Meet The Man Behind The World’s First Digital Supermodel"
    Move over Lil Miquela, newcomer Shudu is here to stay.

    by Sara Semic
    July 15, 2019

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