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Your Face On the Big Screen

Posted by timothy on from the your-name-here dept.

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."

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  1. But of course... by fishlet · · Score: 4, Insightful


    We all know the first pioneer of this new tech is going to be the porn industry...

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    Blender And Linux Fan
  2. Great by mhaisley · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  3. You TOO can be a Doom 3 Space Marine ! by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I don't see too much special here (besides it being a funny gimmick), as it's an animated movie.
    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.