Virtual Actors Will Replace Human Actors?
January 14th, 2009 
Art, Business, Innovation, Machinima, New Media, Social Media, Video, Virtual Worlds 
Mark Kizelshteyn
Sort of. This past week Scobleizer went to this years Consumer Electronics Show and was presented with some fascinating video that AMD and Light Stage are working on. They are successfully immortalizing real life actors into the virtual domain. Although virtual actors have been seen in film before, they have largely been cheesy and noticeably fake. That is not the case anymore. Say we want Philip Seymour Hoffman the way he looks today in a movie 30 years from now. Well, we’ll have him.
Check out Scolbeizer’s interview with Jules Orbach, CEO of Light Stage/OTOY here.
The amazing thing is this will be available at the consumer level soon, where this technology will be used for games and virtual worlds. Soon enough, we will see exact replica’s of us walking around World of War Craft and Second Life. Incredible.
There are no special markers or cameras that are used to capture the real actor and transform them into a virtual being. It is simply captured by a series of cameras and subsequently analyzed by proprietary software.
Check out this video from last August:
Yes, Emily is virtual.
Tags: Acting, AMD, Hollywood, Light Stage, Movies, Virtual Reality
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