Tom was as enthusiastic as always and its an interesting video but I found the robot to be very unconvincing: not even close to the uncanny valley for me. The dead eyes, the way the mouth/lips moved and the skin texture/colour were all off and it didn't have any of the rapid and subtle micro movements a real person makes all the time.
(, Tue 12 Apr 2022, 10:11, Reply)
though I would like a test of whether the robot's face would have unlocked his phone
(, Tue 12 Apr 2022, 10:38, Reply)
(, Tue 12 Apr 2022, 13:01, Reply)
...but only from the neck upwards apparently!
(, Tue 12 Apr 2022, 13:28, Reply)
Bill Hicks was right.
(, Tue 12 Apr 2022, 18:22, Reply)
Lifeless gaze and something seriously weird about the eyelids. Mouth movement when talking looks to be almost just open or shut. Even smart tracking for the eyes, so it makes eye contact or looks at cameras, would swing it a fair way. As it is, it comes across like someone fitted a Lego Technic Control Centre into a corpse. Static images look bad enough, but movement kills any illusion completely.
Vastly different budget I know, but not a patch on Amalgamated Dynamics' work.
(, Tue 12 Apr 2022, 22:32, Reply)
