{"id":988,"date":"2008-08-22T07:35:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T11:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2008-08-20T19:26:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T23:26:46","slug":"blowing-right-past-the-uncanny-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Blowing Right Past the Uncanny Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.image-metrics.com\/\">Image Metrics<\/A> is a company devoted to creating extremely realistic facial animations for video games and movies.  They&#8217;re pretty good at it.<\/p>\n<p>In the video below, the actress&#8217; face is entirely computer-generated until the 1:30 mark.  It could be argued that the animated face looks a little stiff compared to the real thing, but it looks more like she&#8217;s had a recent botox injection than anything else.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bLiX5d3rC6o&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bLiX5d3rC6o&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This technology will not only make video games more realistic, it could be used to put a friendlier face on human\/computer interactions.  Dealing with an automated system seems much less impersonal when it&#8217;s smiling at you.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another demo video on the Image Metrics <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.image-metrics.com\/\">home page<\/A>, displaying a wider range of facial expressions.  I found the animation pretty believable until she grinned.  Then it kind of creeped me out.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/presurfer.blogspot.com\/\">The Presurfer<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Metrics is a company devoted to creating extremely realistic facial animations for video games and movies. They&#8217;re pretty good at it. In the video below, the actress&#8217; face is entirely computer-generated until the 1:30 mark. It could be argued that the animated face looks a little stiff compared to the real thing, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}