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With character-driven games, facial animation is more important than ever – and modern games need vast amounts of it. The scripts for some of this year's AAA releases span thousands of pages (compared to just 120 for an average Hollywood movie), and every line needs to be matched with a believable performance to keep the player immersed. "We're moving away from a world where facial animation is a jaw flapping," says Steve Caulkin, chief technology officer of Cubic Motion, a company that specializes in capturing facial performances and turning them into animated characters in real time. "What you can do with a game engine is very impressive, and the characters are the hardest part to get right because they're what people scrutinize and judge." Instant VFX Cubic Motion, which is based in Manchester, UK, has worked with developers including Activision, Epic, EA, Ninja Theory and Sony to create lifelike animations for stories that are increasingly deep a...
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She’s the youngest daughter of college-educated parents, she’s got roughly 500 million friends across the world, and chances are she's sitting in your pocket right now. Google Assistant is arguably the smartest voice-activated assistant on the planet, with multilingual capabilities, natural speech patterns, and the power of the world's most widely used search engine, working away behind the scenes to give you accurate and swift responses to your queries.  One of the reasons the assistant is so popular is the natural way it interacts with its users – something Google has worked hard to get right.  In an interview with The Atlantic , Google's lead conversation and persona designer James Giangola described how giving Google Assistant a tangible biography provided the voice assistant with a personality, without making her creepily lifelike.  She’s a winner baby So what do we know about the life of Google Assistant? Well, for starters she has a family, as Giangola told ...
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Smart glasses never quite lived up to their initial hype. When the likes of Epson Moverio and Google Glass were released a few years ago, the idea of an augmented reality overlay built into your glasses, projecting words, images and information on the environment around you captured our imaginations. But the ambitious technology had little to offer the average consumer, while the functional designs of AR-ready glasses are yet to be seen strutting down any catwalks. Even the curves of the more stylish Snapchat Spectacles , which come with a built-in video camera to capture social media fodder, have yet to take off in the way many had thought they would. Still, there are plenty of manufacturers looking to put the potential of smart glasses to new and innovative uses. Last year we reported on plans by the UK’s National Theatre to use the Epson Moverio BT-350 glasses in a more arts-focused setting, as part of an initiative to improved accessibility – and those plans have finally come ...
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