🤯 What Was Once Sci-Fi is Now Reality! ⚠️ WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Don't play until the end to avoid graphic content from The Running Man film. This is SPARK, a brand-new AI model that can create 3D face reconstructions from multiple, unconstrained portrait videos and enable real-time tracking on unseen footage. It’s the result of a collaboration between Technicolor, Inria, and the Max Planck Institute. SPARK allows the creation of a relightable face avatar from multiple monocular videos—bringing sci-fi-like technology into the real world. What makes SPARK truly special is its precise face tracking, which can be used for face editing and visual effects IN REAL-TIME! Tasks that would typically require manual 3D modeling or complex scanning sessions of actors can now be automated! 🔝 This technology opens up endless possibilities in professional fields like FX, virtual production, 3D modeling, and gaming, but is not exempt of many ethical concerns. 🚩 This time, the potential for misuse, especially in altering real-time footage for fake news and deep fakes, is completely real in the wrong hands. ⚠️ As a fan of sci-fi and dystopian films, many of them have warned us about its risks. I specially remember "The Running Man", where they faked the death of Ben Richards by overlaying his face in real time with what the called "Digital Matte Tracking" 📌 Link to the model paper and samples in comments! Code is not yet available! Content Credits: © The Running Man, 1987. TAFT Entertainment Pictures / Keith Barish Productions. #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation#Future

Unity's AI-based platform for game development, Unity Muse, has been updated and can now generate better textures. #unity #madewithunity #unityengine #unitymuse #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #genai #aitech #aitechnology

A concept of a cooking app in AR 👨‍🍳 How could AR devices help people cook? Software engineer Stijn Spanhove shared a cool experiment with a multimodal LLM in WebAR. The demo shows AI identifying ingredients, setting up bounding boxes, and preparing them for AR. The app then also generates recipes and corresponding images. #xr #ar #AI #artificialintelligence #augementedreality

Controlling multiple areas of your video generations with AI 🦅 Runway presented the Multi Motion Brush in Gen-2, its multimodal AI system that generates videos using text, images, and video clips. Basically, it's an update to a brush that can animate elements in static images, but this time you can manipulate multiple objects simultaneously. #runway #AI #artificialintelligence #ML

Controlling multiple areas of your video generations with AI 🦅 #Runway presented the Multi Motion Brush in Gen-2, its multimodal AI system that generates videos using text, images, and video clips. Basically, it's an update to a brush that can animate elements in static images, but this time you can manipulate multiple objects simultaneously. #runway #AI #artificialintelligence #ML