Coors Brewery was giving away a Zoom Avatar a few months back. Posted a link on the list then. Don't know if still available. Don't know if it included "product placement."
davew On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, at 5:12 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > My peeve of late is with people that talk about latent low dimensional > representations as if it were a given that they exist and are generally > valid to use. Of course, these animations hold most variables constant > about their subjects and change some coarse or local geometry. They > are not generative models trained on observed behavior. I dream of an > avatar that can reproduce me on Zoom calls for a few days so I can go > to the park and play with my dog. I'd like to have training sets like > "in a good mood and feeling generous" which I could replay again and > again and again coupled to whatever topic. Eliza like stuff that just > responds to the speaker with remarks like "What a good idea? Can you > tell me more?" > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 3:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] exploiting the uncanny valley... > > Not about UV, but more along the lines of Kimmel's video: > > https://counter.social/system/media_attachments/files/000/726/335/original/b164ce96f368c5f8.mp4?1611268526 > > On 1/21/21 10:13 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > > I can't help but wonder if this is related to sentiments like Justine's > > rejection of "natural" interfaces and conceptions of [ab|mis]use? My first > > bad reaction to machine/software was when I tried to play one of the Dark > > Souls games <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Souls> for the first time. > > There are some instructions in the form of a tutorial area, but nothing > > like the way games used to be ... like with a whole instruction manual on > > how to play. Maybe if the interface is *natural enough*, then it's likable. > > But if it's just a tad less than natural, then it makes you nauseous ... > > like how VR affects some people ... or like a psychopath who hasn't quite > > learned how to mimic normies' emotional affect. > > > > On 1/21/21 9:23 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > >> I wonder how much lead time went into making this series of fakes > >> wandering the uncanny valley between shallow and deep fake? > >> > >> Na Na Na Na, Goodbye - Kimmel > >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZqu8ojifhU> > >> > >> This class of "magic" will be for the current children growing up > >> what the elders here experienced with the classic production of Wizard of > >> Oz when it shifted abruptly from BW to Technicolor as Dorothy emerged from > >> her Tornado-House in Oz. Or perhaps the well executed insertion of > >> Forrest Gump into various bits of historical footage from the 60's > >> (auspiciously his speech at the DC Mall during the Vietnam Protests). Or > >> perhaps the Toy Story experience as a feature 3D animated movie. Or > >> maybe the integration of live and 2D/3D animation in Roger Rabbit or > >> Howard the Duck <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mz3oytpugs>. > >> > >> All *exploiting* the uncanny valley whilst exploring it. > > > > > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
