Are virtual actors close enough to becoming sufficiently photo-realistic and human that they can at least substitute for human actors in all but close-up shots, if not in some cases displace and replace them entirely? Hollywood-based artists agency CAA recently signed up a new client, virtual Brazilian model / dancer Lil Miquela, writes Steve Rose […]
Thanks to former British astronaut Tim Peake, appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, for reminding us that we will be able to see the NASA SpaceX rocket from the UK later this evening. According two Tim, we’ll see the International Space Station first, at 21.30 BST, then the SpaceX will be visible at 21.51, […]
For the second new Informed Sauce podcast, NVIDIA’s Jamie Allan talks about the company’s rearranged GPU Technology Conference, which switched to an online-only event after the world went into lockdown. New Ampere architecture and A100 GPU Launched last week with a keynote from CEO Jensen Huang, GTC 2020 has its own website that features “hundreds […]
As plans form to re-open film and TV production worldwide, you could be excused for thinking that some Hollywood execs are dusting off old sci-fi scripts in search of a solution to the practical problem of keeping offices, production spaces and sets clean and cast and crew safe. A new joint venture, Production Safe Zone […]
NVIDIA turned its R&D effort on another game recently, unleashing a generative adversarial network (GAN) it calls GameGAN on Pac-Man, to celebrate the 40th. anniversary of its arrival in the world’s arcades. A GAN comprises two elements; one tries to replicate the input data, while the other compares this to the original source and then. […]
A leaked internal BBC Zoom video of the BBC Covid-19 Bounce Back Group’s Initial Lockdown Meeting, chaired by Head Of Values Ian Fletcher. where the single agenda item is how on earth the Corporation is going to fill the schedules during the pandemic, has been leaked onto YouTube. We felt it was our civic duty […]