Nvidia Reveals Parts Of Its Keynote, Hosted In April, Were Deepfaked
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Apple hosted events with Memoji, but Nvidia took things far further by creating digital clones of everything, from its CEO to his furniture and backdrop. This week—four months after its 2021 GPU Technology Conference (GTC)—the computer graphics processing giant disclosed that parts of the event had been staged in CGI.
If you thought it was still possible to tell fact from fiction, new behind-the-scenes clips from Nvidia prove that we’ve gone beyond Uncanny Valley. Using its Omniverse CG technology, the company constructed a digital twin of CEO Jensen Huang and his kitchen, the venue of three of his previous pandemic-era keynotes.
Video screenshot via Nvidia
Video screenshot via Nvidia
According to Nvidia, Huang’s clone only spoke for 14 seconds of the one-hour-48-minute presentation. Still, its hyperrealism breeds curiosity about what else could have been rendered.
To create a CG model of Huang, Nvidia generated a full face and body scan, and then taught an AI to replicate his movements.
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At the end, the kitchen’s elements are disassembled to reveal what the session truly was: a demo on the future of mixed reality.
Video screenshot via Nvidia
Video screenshot via Nvidia
[via Digital Trends, videos and images via Nvidia]
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