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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by kumarvvr on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:18PM (#24013465)
> Not sure I get what that means.

Generation of video clips of human gestures, by automating a 3D modeling software, like Blender, will give you not only the video, but also depth and other data related to the video.

If you are looking for sources to train your model to recognize depth / gestures, videos from TikTok are far less useful, than generating your own ones by automating or programming them.

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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by hellomyguys on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:38PM (#24013721)
Sorry, I’m talking about the user generated actions on the consumption side. Likes, shares, comments, pauses, loops.

Regardless my point on the data aspect of the acquisition wasn't meant to be the reason for the actual value of TikTok for Microsoft.

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