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Mar 21, 2016
Smart 3D modeling lets you mess with faces in videos
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, entertainment
Have you ever wanted to mess with a video by making its cast say things they never would on camera? You might get that chance. Researchers have built a face detection system that lets you impose your facial expressions on people in videos. The software uses an off-the-shelf webcam to create a 3D model of your face in real time, and distorts it to fit the facial details in the target footage. The result, as you’ll see below, is eerily authentic-looking: you can have a dead-serious Vladimir Putin make funny faces, or Donald Trump blab when he’d otherwise stay silent.
This isn’t about to reach software you can buy, but the implications for video creation are big if it becomes more than a university project. You could use the tool to mess with your friends by having celebrities say audacious things, or have famous figures recite dialogue in movies without needing to painstakingly animate faces frame by frame. In other words: get ready for an era when even the most plausible videos aren’t safe from a little computer trickery.
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Mar 19, 2016
The Latest Findings on Memory
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: entertainment, neuroscience
The fact that some people remember the past as a series of episodes full of details (episodic memory), while others store in their brains the meaning of events (semantic memory), has a lot to do with the configuration of the connections in the brain, according to a recent study published in the journal Cortex. Neuroscience is deciphering the sophisticated mechanisms of human memory to explain how we file and remember information.
– Memory’s unreliable.
Mar 19, 2016
Virtual reality horror game The Brookhaven Experiment will scare the s**t out of you
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: entertainment, virtual reality
The unholy, skinless, bloody creatures shambled toward me on all sides. My pistol was pitifully inadequate. For the first time ever, I pulled a VR rig off my head in the middle of a demo.
Not even extreme nausea had caused me to do so before Thursday, when I demoed the HTC Vive game The Brookhaven Experiment at Valve Software’s booth at the 2016 Game Developers Conference. I’d always choked down the bile and forced myself to finish the demo rather than bail, even though this is almost always a bad decision. Call it stupid gamer pride.
Mar 19, 2016
Fun (and Some Nausea) with the First Games for the Oculus Rift Headset
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: entertainment, virtual reality
Mar 15, 2016
Movies & TV
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: entertainment, media & arts, mobile phones
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Mar 15, 2016
DARPA Calls For Creative Individuals to Weaponize Common Items
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: entertainment, internet, terrorism
Is this another strategy to fight terrorism by seeing from techies and others the various ways terrorists can take every day items to create weapons?
Do you want to be a MacGyver and turn everyday household items into Decepticons? Then DARPA’s new Improv program wants you.
This sounds like a Transformers movie. Or a MacGyver episode. Heck, this could even be a precursor to Skynet and future Terminators. OK, that last one may not apply, but a new DARPA program wants people who can weaponize a toaster.
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Mar 15, 2016
Looking forward to Horizon: The Immortalist
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: entertainment, life extension
The film, produced and directed by Tristan Quinn, will be shown on BBC Two at 20:00 on Wednesday 16 March 2016.
Mar 13, 2016
Artificial intelligence: Go master Lee Se-dol wins against AlphaGo program
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in categories: computing, entertainment, robotics/AI
A master player of the game Go has won his first match against a Google computer program, after losing three in a row in a best-of-five competition.
Lee Se-dol, one of the world’s top players, said his win against AlphaGo was “invaluable”.
The Chinese board game is considered to be a much more complex challenge for a computer than chess, and AlphaGo’s wins were seen as a landmark moment for artificial intelligence.