The future of ultra-realistic human avatars has started, and technology for it is being developed in Pittsburgh. Meta, the Menlo Park, Calif.- based global tech company that operates Facebook, Oculus ...
Editor's Note: This article has been updated to remove a previously referenced paragraph. Throughout a rocky 2025 market, AI has been a leading narrative in the Web3 world. Now, the U.S. government is ...
It was only a few months ago when Synthesia showed off its “Expressive AI Avatars” that impressed with its creepily realistic facial expressions and voices. Now the company is taking it to the next ...
Synthesia, a startup that has the backing of NVIDIA, is launching its fourth generation of AI avatars it’s calling Expressive Avatars that are powered by the EXPRESS-1 model. These avatars are ...
Creating realistic avatars for social interaction in 3D media has been a longtime dream of many people. Avatars that you can recognize create emotional attachment, making interactions more efficient, ...
If you’re among the 1.5 billion people worldwide using TikTok, you may have come across exceptional “testimonials” like Nikola Tesla or Marie Curie delivering short science-related messages that have ...
Epic Games, the company that makes Unreal Engine, recently released a substantial update to its MetaHuman character creation tool which for the first time allows developers to import scans of real ...
Seeing human-like robots, dolls, and AI-generated faces can trigger eerie, put-off feelings towards the figure, a phenomenon known as the uncanny valley. Though these figures look almost human, there ...
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has developed hyper-realistic AI technology that can create an avatar that speaks naturally like a real person using only a single portrait ...
The concept of digital avatars has its roots in the early days of the internet. They were initially used to communicate on forums and later on social networks, employing images to represent themselves ...
At this week’s Siggraph event, Nvidia offered a multimedia presentation that showcased the company’s technology and demonstrated how easily avatars could replace real people on stage. (Disclosure ...