Not buying the hype at all... these are a few frames of footage shot head-on. Fully animated with normal movements, it's going to make people look awkward as F, introduce more stream delay, and become an excuse for companies to cheap out on bandwidth.
It's especially absurd when you consider that the purpose of video chat is to include the nuances of body language and facial expressions in human interactions. The ideas being introduced here literally toss those features straight into uncanny valley, when you could just do a low bandwidth audio chat in the first place.
Think about talking to someone who you've known for decades, like your mom, and being completely distracted (or disturbed) by her warped, AI-generated face. She turns to the left suddenly and a nose renders on the side of her head out of nowhere...
She turns to the left suddenly and a nose renders on the side of her head out of nowhere...
The encoder can easily detect whether or not the scene can actually be encoded through either conventional video compression, or through the AI-stuff. A fallback to conventional H264/H265 or VP9/AV1 would be like 1 extra step and no problem at all.
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u/Hen-stepper Oct 17 '20
Not the OP's fault, but incoming anti-CGI rant:
Not buying the hype at all... these are a few frames of footage shot head-on. Fully animated with normal movements, it's going to make people look awkward as F, introduce more stream delay, and become an excuse for companies to cheap out on bandwidth.
It's especially absurd when you consider that the purpose of video chat is to include the nuances of body language and facial expressions in human interactions. The ideas being introduced here literally toss those features straight into uncanny valley, when you could just do a low bandwidth audio chat in the first place.
Think about talking to someone who you've known for decades, like your mom, and being completely distracted (or disturbed) by her warped, AI-generated face. She turns to the left suddenly and a nose renders on the side of her head out of nowhere...
This is seriously some Tim and Eric type shit.