More astounding technology. Take any source dancer, a clip of the target person, and then make anyone do the same dance.
This will probably be used very soon to make whole hosts of dancers in movies/music videos all in perfect sync while only paying for one source dancer.
It could be used to bring back deceased dancers, or apply the dances of deceased dancers onto new artists.
Full paper and details here:
After having 2 trained bomb defusal experts play ‘Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes”,
BuzzFeed gets a real surgeon to attempt the infamously humorous, over-the-top ‘Surgeon Simulator’
Wow
Turns out you can rent the Villa used in the movie ‘Under a Tuscan Sun’. It’s about $2000-$4000 per night and has a minimum 7 night stay, but it does sleep 20 comfortably. Breaking that down, if you found 20 friends for a week, it would only cost about $1000. That’s not a bad deal.
So, who’s with me for a stay at Villa Laura in Cortona?
I fell in love with Batgirl
Yes, this really did happen. George Hamilton, playing the part of the Crispy Colonel, delivered Friday’s commencement address at The Art Institute of Portland.
“Life you will take you places you have never imagined,” he told graduates. “Maybe one day you’ll be an actor, or a chicken salesman, or an actor who’s pretending to be a chicken salesman.”
Read more here:
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/06/colonel_sanders_aka_george_ham.html
Imagine looking up famous artworks, sculptures, and historical artifacts – then bringing them to your living room to examine as if it were really there.
Google’s Chrome Canary uses the WebXR format to bring an educational AR experience to your browser. You’ll need an ARCore-compatible Android phone running Oreo in addition to Canary, but you’re good to go after that. You can walk around a Mesoamerican sculpture reading annotations as if you were visiting a museum exhibit without the usual cordons and glass cases.
One of the absolute highlights of E3 has been Double Fine performing the classic adventure game Grim Fandango live on stage, complete with original voice actors and band.
Close your eyes, sit back in your easy chair, grab a balloon animal, sip from your margarita, and give it a listen.
We’ve all heard of the Stanford Prison Experiment – the one that proved that people can turn evil based on being given authority. There’s only one problem – it was mostly a sham. The original participants have been coming clean: they were hamming it up and were coached. Said one participant, “Anybody who is a clinician would know that I was faking. If you listen to the tape, it’s not subtle.”
Sadly, it looks as if that’s not the only experiment of that era that hand a thumb on the scale. Read more about the study from those who were in it here.