Chinese Actress Turned into a Digital Human Because Technology is Awesome
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By Carl Samson
The future of digital humans just got brighter as one character based on a Chinese actress made people question reality at a recent gaming conference.
Meet Siren, a “high-fidelity, real-time digital character” developed by Epic Games in partnership with 3Lateral, Cubic Motion, Tencent and Vicon.
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Siren is based on Chinese star Bingjie Jiang and is played by actress Alexa Lee.
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Epic Games unveiled the technology in its “State of Unreal” presentation at the annual Game Developers Conference, which runs from March 19-23 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
She is created with the company’s Unreal Engine, a suite of tools that developers use “to design and build games, simulations, and visualizations.”
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Kim Libreri, chief technology officer at Epic Games, told reporters:
“Everything you saw was running in the Unreal Engine at 60 frames per second.”
“Creating believable digital characters that you can interact with and direct in real-time is one of the most exciting things that has happened in the computer graphics industry in recent years.”
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“Hello, I’m Siren and I’m a digital human. I was created by an international team of artists and engineers who wanted to challenge our ideas of what a synthetic human could be.”
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“I’ve got state-of-the-art, real-time graphics and an unprecedented level of detail in my eyes, skin and hair. Cool, right?”
As such, Siren is a step toward more realistic digital humans in gaming and film. The technology is now available for licensing.
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Siren is currently on display at the Vicon booth.
Watch her performance and behind-the-scenes footage:
Images via YouTube / Unreal Engine
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