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Your Face On the Big Screen
blamanj writes "In another case of SciFi becoming reality, you can now star in an animated film as your FutureCast (tm) face-scan is edited into the picture in real-time. John Brunner, in his Hugo-winning novel, Stand on Zanzibar predicted a similar development in television, lampooning people sitting at home while watching travologues of themselves 'on vacation.'
Brunner, in addition to being an excellent writer, had some spot-on predictions of a virus-laden Internet in Shockwave Rider. Fortunately, the predictions of his eco-dystopia The Sheep Look Up have not come to pass. Yet."
We all know the first pioneer of this new tech is going to be the porn industry...
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This is really great, I can see my self standing in line for hours at an amusment park, and afterwords being able to buy advertising featuring me.
Besides the really vain, what use is there for this type of technology, it's kind of a "wow thats cool, now what" type thing.
Didnt they do this to a lesser extent with Tony Hawk 4 or somethin on the PS2?
You are all a bunch of idots.
Replacing textures of 3d fps game-models have been common ground for ages : Only now with the D3 engine, you can get near the quality seen in the screenshots of the animation.
Still, a funny idea.
So will actors/actresses now have copyrights for their faces?
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I'll just wait for cognitive impression. Having an AI version of you would be kind of cool, if there was a bunch of security measures. If I was an AI, I'd probably want to do evil stuff. By the way, am I using the term "cognitive impression" correctly? I believe it was used in Halo as the process of making an AI based on someone's mind.
You might find that years of video games, rapid cut scene-shift TV and music videos have trained you up for that style. (Definitely 20 minutes into the future. ;) Those three books (Stand, Sheep, Shock) are not an easy read the first few times.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
One photo -especially one with flash is never going to cut it. They might be able to mold it to an approximate likeness, but you won't get the side profile, back of the head/hairdo etc. correct.
As for the Q Random Stalker comment - how is this different than most people fantasising? Well, apart from being able to then broadcast their "masterpiece" to the entire world rather than just thinking and/or writing about it.
Most people don't have a terribly realistic view of how they look. This is highlighted by their reactions to amateur home videos. "oh! I look terrible in that". Making people look attractive and not awkward in the video medium is extremely difficult.
So, I'd imagine this technology isn't going to be nearly as important as the technology to make various automatic subtle changes to a person so that their facial features and expressions look attractive, graceful, etc but are still recognisable both to themselves and, less importantly, to other people.
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"Seems pretty much like now to me"
I was just down to the store yesterday for new cartridges for the gasmask...
No, I wasn't. Infant mortality is down about everywhere, the water is getting cleaner in industrialized countries and the Corps hate organic food. People are living longer and longer with high quality of living through thier lives. So how is it like now?
This might work in Asia, where they all look alike, but it won't work for my culture.
This might work with whities, where they all look alike, but it won't work for my culture.
This might work in Europe, where they all look alike, but it won't work for my culture.
This might work with Blacks, where they all look alike, but it won't work for my culture.
This might work with Hispanics, where they all look alike, but it won't work for my culture.
This might work with Native Americans, where they all look alike, but it won't work for my culture.