Virtual Beings Links 2020-08 (August)

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2020-8-1 The Sims 4 hits 30 million players with massive pandemic bump
2020-8-1 Wizards extend Japanese outreach by partnering with CGI influencer | SportBusiness
2020-8-1 AI characters to replace human celebrities in future marketing
2020-8-1 Virtual artist Miquela debuted a music video at Lollapalooza
2020-8-1 Pixelmonger
2020-8-1 CGI-Created Virtual Influencers Are the New Trend in Social Media Marketing
2020-8-1 Personality Engines |
2020-8-3 Future of AI in video games focuses on the human connection
2020-8-3 Deepfakes Are Becoming the Hot New Corporate Training Tool – Machine Learning Times – machine learning & data science news
2020-8-3 Brazilian taekwondo stars turn to virtual reality to train for Tokyo 2020
2020-8-3 ZHEJIANG LAB
2020-8-3 YouTube to Discontinue Community Subtitles While Virtual YouTubers Face DMCA Claims – Niche Gamer
2020-8-3 Augmented creativity: The potential for AI in the creative sector
2020-8-4 THE SILVINA PROJECT: PART 1, Sefki Ibrahim
2020-8-4 This grad student used a neural network to write his papers
2020-8-4 ‘Hey, You Free on Friday for a Meeting and a Bank Heist?’
2020-8-4 Can we achieve AGI by improving GPT-3?
2020-8-4 Xiao-i
2020-8-4 German Tech Startup
2020-8-4 Creating Digital Humans 1: Volume and Muscle
2020-8-4 Award-Winning Fashion Photographer Starts Virtual Modeling Agency – VRScout
2020-8-5 Who are Virtual Influencer Twins Hripsy and Colina?
2020-8-5 50 Lars — Virtual Beings Summit
2020-8-5 Studying the VR Industry: New NYU Course
2020-8-5 Avatar-based suicide-prevention program now available for Minnesota educators | MinnPost
2020-8-5 Character Editor by polyphoria in Characters – UE4 Marketplace
2020-8-6 Will virtual influencers advance? Collected beautiful Digital Human. ? Pukushi @pukushi 4 years of emigration to Toronto
2020-8-6 Will 5G and VR change how we watch sports?
2020-8-6 52 Eugenia Kuyda — Virtual Beings Summit
2020-8-6 Alelo | Avatar-Based Artificial Intelligence for Education & Training
2020-8-7 Ok, Google: Tell me about Israel’s voice recognition technology
2020-8-7 The real reason Microsoft wants to buy TikTok
2020-8-7 Krisp | Noise Cancelling App
2020-8-7 Jihadi Use Of Bots On The Encrypted Messaging Platform Telegram
2020-8-7 Sean Stewart Debuts ‘Roundabout,’ A Groundbreaking Interactive, Livestreamed Play, As The Headliner Of NIDA’s Digital Theatre Festival
2020-8-7 ‘Fortnite’ Maker Epic Games Announces $1.78 Billion Funding, Including $250 Million From Sony
2020-8-8 65 James Vlahos — Virtual Beings Summit
2020-8-8 Ralph Lauren thinks people want to shop their Bitmoji
2020-8-8 Apple won’t allow Google Stadia on iPhone, at least for now – 9to5Google
2020-8-8 How about using a digital avatar on a virtual campus? |
2020-8-8 Estonian-born startup Wolf3D raises $1.3 million to bring personal avatars to gaming –
2020-8-8 Design Manager – Interactive Experiences
2020-8-8 Can GPT-3 Make Analogies?
2020-8-9 Tired of Zoom Calls? Company Offers At-Home Hologram Machines
2020-8-9 Meow Wolf was set to transform themed entertainment in Vegas and beyond. Then came the pandemic
2020-8-9 Firefox Reality’ VR Web Browser Comes to PC in Preview Version
2020-8-9 QuiverVision
2020-8-10 The Weeknd Debuts New Song, Performs With Doja Cat During 3D TikTok Event
2020-8-10 Capture: From Virtual to Physical and Back Again
2020-8-10 Is Direct To Avatar The Next Direct To Consumer?
2020-8-11 UneeQ, a startup that counts Salesforce’s former head of AI as an investor, has a free new tool that aims to make building virtual humans to answer questions as easy as creating a website
2020-8-11 The Forever Social
2020-8-12 Facebook Researchers Develop Bleeding-edge Facial Reconstruction Tech So You Can Make Goofy Faces in VR
2020-8-12 Immersion marketing – Wikipedia
2020-8-12 AIC-IIITH Foundation selects 10 Tech-based Social Enterprises focused on Sustainable Development GoalsIBG News | IBG News
2020-8-12 Why IBM Built An AI Avatar To Answer Questions About Marine Litter
2020-8-12 The smiles may be fake but synthetic media’s potential is real
2020-8-12 world’s first! Fashion brand “NOWEAR” created by virtual human is born
2020-8-12 IDFA DocLab on Twitter
2020-8-13 NeuralCam Live uses ML to turn iPhones into ‘smart’ computer webcams
2020-8-13 Home – GHBMC
2020-8-13 The Weeknd Virtual Concert on TikTok Drew Over 2M Viewers, Raised $350,000 for Equal Justice Initiative
2020-8-13 Machine learning for artists: the latest trends | Foundry
2020-8-13 Traditional Puppetry and Virtual Reality?—?Part 1
2020-8-13 Marie Johnson
2020-8-14 #ARVRinEDU => #PedagogicalAgents => #IntelligentTutoringSystems => #virtualbeings =>
2020-8-14 Why it’s time to change the conversation around synthetic media
2020-8-14 Facebook AI Chief Pushes the Technology’s Limits
2020-8-14 Why do 7 Billion People Need Their Own AI?
2020-8-14 Character sheet – Wikipedia
2020-8-14 Welcome to Wonderland: How synthetic, AI-generated media is going to liberate creativity
2020-8-15 The future is in synthetic media! – Echangeur by BNP Paribas Personal Finance
2020-8-15 Oculus Store Leaks Revamped Version Of Venues With Horizon-Style Avatars
2020-8-15 How Close Is Elon Musk’s Neuralink to Ushering Us into the Matrix?
2020-8-15 The DeanBeat: Epic Games vs. Apple/Google is a shot heard around the world — but it’s risky
2020-8-15 Keith Paciello – The Last of Us II – Emotional Systemic Facial Reel
2020-8-15 Oxford VR Picks up $12.5M in Funding for Its VR-based Therapy Platform
2020-8-15 A new AI language model generates poetry and prose
2020-8-16 Intel AI Powered Virtual Assistant Mobilized to Assist Reopening of Military Museum |
2020-8-16 DARPA Trains AI To Understand Humans – In Minecraft
2020-8-16 Alice in Tinderland: What happened when AI was used on the popular dating app (SCREENSHOTS)
2020-8-16 Doctor Who: Worlds Apart takes BBC Studios into Blockchain Gaming with digital trading card game – ToyNews
2020-8-16 Mug Life | Animate Faces in any Photo
2020-8-17 Opinion | People Aren’t Reading or Watching Movies. They’re Gaming.
2020-8-17 These AI-generated tennis matches are both eerie and impressive
2020-8-17 AI as Storyteller #1?—?A Royal Coup
2020-8-17 Early WWE Empty Arena Pitches Included CGI Fans, Holograms, and Cooking Segments
2020-8-17 Virtual YouTuber Agency hololive Debuts 5th Generation Talent
2020-8-18 Hour One raises $5M Seed to generate AI-driven synthetic characters from real humans – TechCrunch
2020-8-18 Carv3d – Realistic, bespoke digital humans on demand
2020-8-18 Escape Character hosts The Aluminum Cat
2020-8-18 ???-Yiihuu.com
2020-8-18 Apple terminating Epic developer accounts, tools access
2020-8-19 Hour One wants synthetic AI characters to be your digital avatars
2020-8-19 AI for Sustainable Development Goals (AI4SDGs) Think Tank
2020-8-19 ArtStation – Realistic hair for digital human | Resources
2020-8-19 Is GPT-3 the big leap forward for AI?
2020-8-19 Art-3d-cg-digital humans
2020-8-19 Learn more about Digital Twin Consortium™
2020-8-19 Aptima | Aptima: Human-Centered Engineering
2020-8-20 Netflix Marketing Exec Tina Rubin Jumps to Virtual-Concert Startup Wave as CMO
2020-8-20 Facebook gamifies data collection to boost conversational AI
2020-8-20 NVIDIA Isaac SDK
2020-8-20 Robots Are Setting the Beauty Standards of Our Future
2020-8-20 International Society for Presence Research
2020-8-20 The Weeknd wants to chat with you personally, via Spotify AI – Music News – ABC News Radio
2020-8-20 The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans
2020-8-21 The rise of the avatar as a marketing medium
2020-8-21 Twitter Is Flooded With Fake People
2020-8-21 Hilton introduces AI customer service Chatbot – Business Traveller
2020-8-21 Adapting a Virtual Advisor’s Verbal Conversation Based on Predicted User Preferences: A Study of Neutral, Empathic and Tailored Dialogue
2020-8-21 “Intimate relationship” with “virtual humans” and the “socialification” of familyship
2020-8-21 The Science and Design of the Digital Human Cardiac Coach (Health Coach)
2020-8-21 Microsoft’s Chinese Spin-off Wants Everyone to Have a Virtual Companion Like Samantha in ‘Her’- PingWest
2020-8-22 Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74
2020-8-22 Looking for Novels About Virtual Humans and Digital Civilizations a la Egan’s Diaspora
2020-8-22 New Conversation Series: DEEPFAKERY
2020-8-22 Alcove Is A Family-Oriented, If Slightly Meagre Take On Social VR
2020-8-22 Perceived match between own and observed models’ bodies: influence of face, viewpoints, and body size
2020-8-22 Chatbot Xiaoice wants to be face of future human-machine interactions –
2020-8-22 These photorealistic portraits of ancient Roman emperors were created using old statues and AI
2020-8-22 Filmmakers told to ditch sex scenes to protect actors from coronavirus
2020-8-23 Robot friends: Why people talk to chatbots in times of trouble
2020-8-23 VHIL
2020-8-23 The Sims 4′ fans demand for better representation of dark skin tones
2020-8-23 Five reasons to get excited about the next wave of digital human innovation – Digital Humans
2020-8-23 Deepfakes — Nina Schick
2020-8-23 Deepfake video app Reface is just getting started on shapeshifting selfie culture – TechCrunch
2020-8-24 3DPW | Real Virtual Humans
2020-8-24 The Digital Human Model | Cluster of Excellence SimTech Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science | University of Stuttgart
2020-8-24 GeekWire Podcast: We tested Microsoft’s virtual fan experience at an NBA game — here’s how it works
2020-8-24 Why FACEBOOK wants your Avatar | Fast Company
2020-8-24 The Grid: Exposure: AI x LITERATURE: Poetry Is a Machine
2020-8-25 HoloMe tops London Tech 50 innovation ranking – BusinessCloud
2020-8-25 Virtual Beings World “New Play Together” | GREE VR Studio Laboratory
2020-8-25 Spotify creates ‘Alone With Me’ AI experience with The Weeknd
2020-8-25 3d-morphable-models/curated-list-of-awesome-3D-Morphable-Model-software-and-data
2020-8-25 Future jobs: Made by kids, gamers and old people – InnovationAus
2020-8-25 How gaming turned a Hindu concept into the internet’s most common feature
2020-8-25 Top 10 Tips: Integrating Virtual Humans in Your Company
2020-8-25 Bletchley Park Trust to undergo organisational restructure
2020-8-25 Building an End-to-End Pipeline with BERT, TensorFlow, and Amazon SageMaker
2020-8-25 Home | AI for Peace
2020-8-26 Doug Roble on the Future of Realistic Virtual Humans
2020-8-26 Ask a Virtual Expert: COVID Conversations with Dr. Jha
2020-8-26 Why putting virtual humans in?—?and in front of?—?driverless cars is a good idea
2020-8-26 Apple acquires VR startup Spaces
2020-8-26 Common Voice by Mozilla
2020-8-26 Culinary Clones: What is the new, interactive cookery class from celebrated Scottish chef? – Scotsman Food and Drink
2020-8-26 Facebook renames its Oculus VR studio to Facebook Reality Labs
2020-8-26 Home | Culinary Clones
2020-8-27 Art Manager, AR/VR Avatars
2020-8-27 Meet Japanese NBA star Hachimura’s ‘virtual influencer’
2020-8-28 Bill & Ted Face the Music had to scrap its CGI George Carlin
2020-8-28 JAY-Z’s Music Streaming Service TIDAL Purchased $7 Million Worth of SENSO Tokens | NewsBTC
2020-8-28 Virtuelle Influencer – ein neuer Grad der Perfektion
2020-8-28 Trademark watch: Digital Humans
2020-8-28 DHM2020 – 6th International Digital Human Modeling Symposium
2020-8-28 digidoppel – sign in
2020-8-28 move.ai enables AI motion capture without the hassle for video game production
2020-8-28 Researchers’ AI can perform 3D motion capture with any off-the-shelf camera
2020-8-28 Debating the ethics of deepfakes | ORF
2020-8-29 Nvidia Patents An AI Gaming Coach – Pop Times UK
2020-8-29 IBM hopes to power US Open’s digital experiences with Watson’s natural language processing | ZDNet
2020-8-29 Le Boudoir numérique
2020-8-30 AI Storytelling Game May Expand Publishing’s Horizons
2020-8-30 Terracotta warrior brought to life in AI-generated video
2020-8-30 Metaverse being fueled by COVID-19 pandemic as players embrace virtual worlds, gaming CEO says
2020-8-30 October: smart internet simple things VR | News | University of Bristol
2020-8-30 5G Create project awards Condense Reality and University of Bristol £1.5m in funding –