Never be lonely again: Digital humans
I spend a fair amount of time in my book chapter talking about intelligent (AI) bots / artificial humans and how brands can use them to create more meaningful relationships with customers. Fascinating stuff. And as AI and natural language processing improves (eg, real conversation) continues to improve in parallel with improving graphics and streaming, we’ll be able to interact in ways that will be indistinguishable from “real”. This New Zealand based company is one of a handful working on developing that dream. UneeQ (previously FaceMe) has taken in $10 million in funding so
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Reading my mind
Fascinating stuff. And, whoa. The inevitable march towards brain-computer interface continues! “Researchers from Russian corporation Neurobotics and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have found a way to visualize a person’s brain activity as actual images mimicking what they observe in real time. “ We are rapidly moving from keyboard and mouse input – which, although we’ve done it so long that it *seems* natural, but it is not – to spatial input; this is truly an astounding leap towards natural computing. I applaud the application that this particular work is working towards (helping
VR for training brain-computer interface
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Slightly uncanny valley
Wow. So. Uncanny valley…one {really bad} selfie and the Pinscreen app maps my face to a 3d avatar from their library (nb: all the female avatars are ridiculously uber sexed up – no, that’s not my body). It follows what my face is doing as well – with “AR” mode my face was mapped to my boyfriend’s body, with the real room in the background. Amazing how quickly this is all developing; that’s 3 examples in the last few weeks of technology that can quickly, and sometimes – on the fly, create 3d avatars from existing
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3d printing limbs
I think this is one of my favorite applications for 3d printing. Such excitement on their faces! Looking forward to the day when fanciful, colorful body enhancements don’t even get a second glance.