Image Metrics say they have leaped the Uncanny Valley with “Emily”

From the Times Online:

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Emily…was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.

Image Metrics say they have leaped the Uncanny Valley with “Emily”

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In many violent regions, multinational corporations are the only institutions with the financial resources and technical expertise necessary to reduce armed conflict. In countries as diverse as Nigeria, Colombia, and the Philippines, such companies are working to diffuse violence by supporting community development, creating new security structures, and supplying social services.

RAND Review | Summer 2008 | Issues over the Horizon: Corporate Counterinsurgency

– this is the cyberpunk future-now.. mercs control and defend our resources..

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Designer Prosthetic Leg

The beautiful work of JOANNA M HAWLEY:

Prosthetics generally lack humanity, style and grace. Often, they look much like landing gear and make the wearer uncomfortable, self aware, and…

Designer Prosthetic Leg

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In the near future, as humans create transhumans, the script of history will start to be written in a more sophisticated font that we lack the cognitive wherewithal to make direct sense out of.

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Information Diets : Seattle Transhumanist Discussion Group

more audio? yes please.. great to listen in on, cheers!

good to hear I’m not the only one that struggles to read books these days 😉

be curious to hear an elaboration of the “real-life as content…

Information Diets : Seattle Transhumanist Discussion Group

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