Virtual Beings Links 2020-09 (September)

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2020-9-1 Ikea turned a virtual influencer into a physical installation
2020-9-1 Luxury Brands in China Lean Into Virtual Idol Campaigns | Jing Daily
2020-9-2 Issue 96 – HUF Magazine
2020-9-2 How Fan Translators Made Virtual YouTubers a Global Phenomenon
2020-9-2 Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs
2020-9-2 Character Creator Digital Human Contest 2020 | Reallusion
2020-9-2 The sports brand Lululemon buys the Mirror smart mirror – The Bulletin Time
2020-9-3 Who is Seraphine? Is She the Next LoL Champion?
2020-9-3 Virtual Influencers, A Valley for Blue Oceans
2020-9-3 ByteDance announces patent for VR viewing
2020-9-3 ‘Pokémon Go’ Maker Niantic Wants to Turn AR Into 5G’s First Killer App
2020-9-3 Google Cloud lets businesses create their own text-to-speech voices – TechCrunch
2020-9-3 HBO Launches LOVECRAFT COUNTRY: SANCTUM, An Exclusive Social VR Experience
2020-9-3 Virtual Star of Porsche Ads Gets Real Venture Backing
2020-9-4 Meet Cover Corp CEO Motoaki “Yagoo” Tanigo, The Man Behind Hololive’s Virtual YouTubers
2020-9-4 Suntory virtual employee “Yamatori Aquatic” appointed as official influencer | Mogura VR
2020-9-4 Dorian raises $3.1M for no-code, interactive storytelling – TechCrunch
2020-9-4 CC Digital Human Contest 2020 ,WIP-threads by Hewa Ameen
2020-9-4 A global, joint training environment provides more than just readiness
2020-9-5 Opinion | Is Virtual Burning Man the Internet’s Ultimate Test?
2020-9-5 New Microsoft patent reveals human-like chatbots and conversational agents
2020-9-5 OpenAI reveals the pricing plans for its API — and it ain’t cheap
2020-9-5 Spatial launches its VR meetings app on Facebook’s Oculus Quest store
2020-9-5 Virtual influencers are ready for advertising’s 5G future – TechHQ
2020-9-5 Our Vision for the Future of Synthetic Media
2020-9-5 How to Create a Loomie 3D Avatar For All Your Zoom Meetings
2020-9-6 League of Legends’ fictional pop group K/DA is working on a song with fictional influencer Seraphine
2020-9-6 Shape Gen Promo Video
2020-9-6 Steph Khuu – University of Auckland — EverydayBME
2020-9-6 VR Fitness Insider – Virtual Reality Workouts, Exercises and Fitness News
2020-9-6 Epic Keeps Fighting Apple For Fortnite On The App Store
2020-9-6 Mustard raises $1.7M to improve athletic mechanics with AI – TechCrunch
2020-9-6 Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion | Lex Fridman Podcast #121
2020-9-7 Thucydides Trap – Wikipedia
2020-9-7 Roblox names ex-Walmart exec Barbara Messing as its first-ever CMO
2020-9-8 Inside Facebook Reality Labs Research: The future of audio
2020-9-8 Embodied Conversational Agent Appearance for Health Assessment of Older Adults: Explorative Study
2020-9-8 AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake videos
2020-9-8 Virtual Burning Man kickstarts Microsoft’s social VR efforts, what it means for Facebook’s new Horizon
2020-9-8 We need to chat about chatbots – InnovationAus
2020-9-8 Use of virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life) for training Artificial General Intelligence agents?
2020-9-9 DeepFakes AI – Improved Lip Sync Animations With Wav2Lip
2020-9-9 A Primer on Digital Humans
2020-9-9 AI Narratives
2020-9-9 Designing Virtual Humans to Facilitate Learning: What Really Matters? by Dr. Noah Schroeder | Wright State University
2020-9-9 Creating Digital Humans With Luc Schurgers
2020-9-9 I’m Offering It to Anyone Who’s Suffering’: Nina Chanel Abney on How Her First-Ever AR Artwork Is a Talisman for Those in Need of Hope
2020-9-9 Volumetric holograms in Marketing and Communications: how to engage customers and key stakeholders…
2020-9-10 Imma Gram’s Creator, “M”, On Her IKEA Partnership
2020-9-10 MagiaTouch – Human Sensing Touch-less SDK,
2020-9-10 This AI startup is reading the entire internet non-stop. Why?
2020-9-10 AI ‘to bring people back to life’ with selfies used to create 3D digital clones
2020-9-10 ‘Fortnite’ Launching New Concert Series, Starting With Dominic Fike — But It Won’t Be on Apple Devices
2020-9-10 Just AI Releases Lovecraft World, the First-Ever Animated Interactive Horror Game for Smart Displays
2020-9-10 in3D | 3D Body Scanning with Smartphone for Games, AR/VR and Fashion
2020-9-11 Welcoming 26 Newfound Virtual Influencers to
2020-9-11 Coventry University calls on Vodafone standalone 5G for virtual reality teaching
2020-9-11 CGMEETUP – 3D Artist (Digital Human / Character / Creature) by Giantstep null
2020-9-11 CC Digital Human Contest 2020 : Pedro Pascal – Work in Progress, Marc Sawyer
2020-9-12 The DeanBeat: Apple v. Epic — a briefing on the antitrust arguments and interesting facts
2020-9-12 Royal Shakespeare Company moving from bricks and mortar to brave new world
2020-9-12 This K-pop single by a group composed entirely of video game characters is No. 1 on the Billboard charts
2020-9-12 Meet Ava Gram, Singapore’s woke, fashionable and gender-fluid influencer
2020-9-12 AI4Media
2020-9-12 Masterclass: Deepfakes – Synthetic Media and Synthesis
2020-9-12 IPOfferings Announces that StoryFile Has Acquired AwareGen’s Artificially Intelligent Interactive Memories Patent Portfolio Ushering in a New Era of Story Telling
2020-9-12 Sensorium Opens up the World of Social VR to Millions of Developers
2020-9-14 John Arnold posted on LinkedIn
2020-9-15 leveraging facial muscle variation
2020-9-15 Trenario
2020-9-15 Sensory, Inc.
2020-9-15 Why Pokimane’s Vtubing Twitch stream has everyone talking
2020-9-15 Fortnite Must Move Faster to Corner the Concert Biz
2020-9-16 10 Brands Well-Equipped to Launch a Virtual Influencer
2020-9-16 The promise of voice AI in game development
2020-9-16 Meet Australian Teen Out To Revolutionalize Online Marketing By Creating Virtual Robots –
2020-9-16 FEATURE: Before VTubers, There Were Fairies!
2020-9-16 What’s the Difference Between a Celebrity and Its Avatar?
2020-9-17 https://t.co/AFv06DEYBg Launches an App for Animating Photos with AI
2020-9-17 Anime Avatars Are Going Mainstream on Twitch
2020-9-17 Making Sense Of The Movement Toward Digital Immortality
2020-9-17 Bahrain FinTech Bay
2020-9-17 How did David Beckham speak 9 languages and demonstrate that AI can improve video performance by 1,200%
2020-9-17 Tech’s ever-growing deepfake problem
2020-9-17 Vizard | Virtual Reality software for researchers
2020-9-17 Quality DSLR body scanning. Vizrt ready
2020-9-18 Riot Games Takes Claim to Virtual Influencer Seraphine
2020-9-18 Tokking Heads
2020-9-18 The world’s most advanced social robot | Furhat Robotics
2020-9-18 Cognitive automation – the next frontier of enterprise RPA?
2020-9-19 Need an isolation buddy? Meet Replika AI’s humanoid chatbot
2020-9-19 Oculus Avatars SDK To Be Replaced With New Facebook Avatars
2020-9-19 A 3D Hentai Camgirl Is Taking Over Chaturbate, and Human Models Are Worried
2020-9-20 Female Virtual Influencers: A Look At The Future Of Entertainment
2020-9-20 IBM, Amazon and Others Launch Consortium to Build Digital Humans With UneeQ
2020-9-20 Former IGN journalist to become a non-playable character in Cyberpunk 2077
2020-9-20 Microsoft Sued For VR Patent Infringement – Tech
2020-9-20 ARHT Media Enters into Strategic Partnership with Digital Nation Entertainment LLC
2020-9-21 Live & Breathe presents: Virtual Influencers & Real Connections
2020-9-21 The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite
2020-9-22 dhowe/dialogic
2020-9-22 J Korea Comput Graph Soc: Avatar’s Lip Synchronization in Talking Involved Virtual Reality
2020-9-22 James Vlahos of Hereafter AI Discusses Avatars That Preserve the Memories and Thoughts of Real People – Voicebot Podcast Ep 168 –
2020-9-22 VSeeFace
2020-9-23 Why Fashion Needs More Imagination When It Comes To Using Artificial Intelligence
2020-9-23 Artificial Intelligence and your Virtual Future by Garrett Hoyos – Ikaria
2020-9-23 Zoom Fatigue and the New Ways to Party
2020-9-23 Epic Games invests $15 million in DIY game startup Manticore Games
2020-9-23 Microsoft has a wild hologram that translates HoloLens keynotes into Japanese
2020-9-24 Shift Medical
2020-9-24 The Rise of the Virtual Influencers | Reply Webinars
2020-9-24 Experiments on virtual humans? – How simulation helps to optimize medical products
2020-9-24 You and Your Working Digital Double
2020-9-24 Artie Reopens its Funding Round and Goes After Mobile Gaming’s Bigger Problem
2020-9-25 Facebook’s new benchmarking system asks humans to interrogate AIs
2020-9-25 Roblox will stage a virtual concert with Ava Max on its path to the metaverse
2020-9-25 You Can Now Get Mixed Reality Artwork by Marina Abramovic on Auction
2020-9-25 Magic Leap Tried to Create an Alternate Reality. Its Founder Was Already in One
2020-9-25 Vtubers: why do these streamers look like anime characters and why are they popular? | Clocked
2020-9-25 ‘BTS Universe Story’ Interactive Social Game App Sets Worldwide Launch
2020-9-25 Sonae IM (Investment Management) posted on LinkedIn
2020-9-25 Humans Need Not Apply: This New TV Talent Contest is for Virtual Idols Only
2020-9-25 WellSaid Labs research takes synthetic speech from seconds-long clips to hours – TechCrunch
2020-9-26 Amazon Luna is a new Google Stadia and GeForce Now rival with some big games
2020-9-27 You wouldn’t hit a dog, so why kill one in Minecraft? Why violence against virtual animals is an ethical issue
2020-9-28 The Last of Us Part II voice actor breaks new ground with Twitch’s Artificial
2020-9-28 HAO-CNN: Filament-aware hair reconstruction based on volumetric vector fields
2020-9-28 Popular deepfake apps are making it easier than ever to make AI-powered manipulated videos — spawning new memes, and an increased potential for abuse
2020-9-28 I was bored so I did the test on the Replika chat bot
2020-9-29 I Tried Influencing in Virtual Clothes
2020-9-29 NetNavi
2020-9-29 Firebolt Digital Double
2020-9-29 How can the perception of emotional, empathetic expression in digital humans assist user’s engagement?
2020-9-29 Filmmaking with Artificial Intelligence
2020-9-29 What’s in a DP? Youths battle body image issues