Lex Fridman #398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse [video]

Re:Lex Fridman #398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in th... by silisili on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:33PM (#37694597)

It's definitely cool, amazing even, but a little uncanny. Watching Zuck specifically in the side by side, you could see his neck muscles and chords move as he talked, and he talks very clearly with a lot of lip movement. His avatar had no neck movement at all, and the lips didn't open much.

Lex was a little closer I think, but to me they both came across as photorealistic lifeless marionettes. This is not to insult the tech at all, it's beyond impressive, just my feelings while watching it.

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Re:Lex Fridman #398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in th... by ipnon on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:37PM (#37694657)

The break is that it’s gone from a research problem to an engineering one.

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Re:Lex Fridman #398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in th... by throw310822 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:03PM (#37695026)

> they both came across as photorealistic lifeless marionettes

Which is exactly how they look in reality anyway. Quite ironic that this technology had to be demonstrated by two of the most famously expressionless characters in the tech world.

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Re:Lex Fridman #398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in th... by sgt on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:00AM (#37703468)

I thought Mark looked more realistic in the 3d rendering than in real life.

That said, I think this technology has huge potential and we'll probably be doing all of our "Zoom" meetings like this in 10 years time.

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