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March 17, 2007

Motion Portrait: Speeding over the Uncanny Valley at Warp 9

At GDC Expo, I happened upon the Silicon Studios booth, where they were showing off Motion Portrait, a new piece of face mapping/morphing software that... well, it hacks the uncanny valley into tiny, bloody chunks.

Here's a decent video of it so you can get an idea of what's going on:

And then here's my face mapped into it, as taken by my cellphone:

Now, all they had to do was take an expressionless picture of me in order to get the facial manipulation to work. Since I'm posting this on a tech sex site, right after a post on transhumanist ethics in sex, the discussions of the horrid misuse of this technology is left as an exercise for the reader and/or reblogger.

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