Reid Hoffman meet AI Twin
April 24, 2024 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Realtime Facial Capture – UE5 Metahuman
July 27, 2022 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Testing UE5 Metahuman Creator.
MegaPortraits – Megapixel Neural Head Avatars
July 27, 2022 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
“We propose a system for the one-shot creation of high-resolution human avatars, called megapixel portraits or MegaPortraits for short …. Our model imposes the motion of the driving frame (i.e., the head pose and the facial expression) onto the appearance of the source frame to produce an output image.”
Atlas Humanoid Robot and DARPA’s Robotic Challenge
July 15, 2013 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Atlas is one of the most advanced humanoid robots ever built, but is essentially a physical shell for the software brains and nerves that the teams will continue to develop and refine. That software, and the actions of a human operator through a control unit, will guide the suite of sensors, actuators, joints and limbs that make up the robot.
Atlas, developed by Boston Dynamics, is one of many robots being developed to complete the physical tasks planned for the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials.
The GlassBox Game Engine by SimCity, Design with Integrity
July 4, 2012 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Artificial Intelligence functionality embeds SimCity with rules, relationships, cause-and-effect, consequences, and a healthy dose of reality scenarios. Objects are free agents running on individual AI activating case specific animations. A nice move toward sophisticated simulation.
KARA on Awareness
March 9, 2012 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Kara by David Gage, Quantic Dream.
Endhiran (Robot) Action Sequence
January 31, 2011 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Cinematic action sequence of hypothetical robotic permutations. Science fiction approach to hive mind and nano-robotics. Over the top, but imaginative.
Doll Face, Artificial Desires
September 10, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Media, Influence, Desire, Greed, Backlash.
(Andy Huang animation).
Artificial Paradise, Inc. An Experimental Film Anticipating Organic Virtual Reality
April 21, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…
Film by Jp Frenay