Anyone who has designed their own cartoon avatar in Snapchat’s Bitmoji or Apple’s Memoji has set foot in a new virtual reality. When the Lord of the Rings trilogy was released in the early 2000s, a sizeable chunk of its $281m budget went towards turning actor Andy Serkis into Gollum — a breakthrough moment for motion-capture technology. Now, every smartphone’s selfie camera can become a motion-capture rig, mapping the subtlest changes in our facial expressions on to our digital doppelgängers. Read More...
Anyone who has designed their own cartoon avatar in Snapchat’s Bitmoji or Apple’s Memoji has set foot in a new virtual reality. When the Lord of the Rings trilogy was released in the early 2000s, a sizeable chunk of its $281m budget went towards turning actor Andy Serkis into Gollum — a breakthrough moment for motion-capture technology. Now, every smartphone’s selfie camera can become a motion-capture rig, mapping the subtlest changes in our facial expressions on to our digital doppelgängers.
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