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Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by yitchelle »

omoikane wrote: post #35
yitchelle wrote: post #17

Who had the Matrix screen saver back in the day? I was in an open plan office at the time of about 30 desks. Every single one of the machines had this screen saver running.

I still have this: https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1189

Nice that the instruction to exit is in the step-by-step.

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Post by arthurcolle »

yitchelle wrote: post #27
aidenn0 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No Hugo Weaving either it looked like.

Hopefully, his character Agent Smith is still in?

I don't think so, Neil Patrick Harris might be playing an equivalent role it seems like. The old storyline is done, this is now the present or near future or so it seems. Kind of alluding to "you don't need super tactical Agents, you can just give them a pill and a nice Chardonn... er.. cellphone and distract people into oblivion."

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Post by hirundo »

I'm reading here various conspiracy theories about how the current time was inserted by one technical trick or another. We should at least consider the possibility that this was simply a preview of the matrix we all live in, and to prepare us for waking up in a vat of mucus.

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Post by echelon »

jjoonathan wrote: post #39
echelon wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They probably used concatenative audio rendering since the digits are tractable to get the actor to record. (Probably just on the borderline in terms of effort for now.) But can you imagine when they are able to use real time text to speech with high fidelity? We're not far from emotive TTS + photo realistic rendering in a real time engine, potentially with neurally generated models to match real time events or camer…

What does the state of the art look like? I'm not following closely enough to know, I only get an update when something leaks into the meme-o-sphere, like the recent "World Leaders singing Numa Numa:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8CKlTlQA64

Here's my stupid text to speech website:

https://vo.codes

And you can try the alpha of "version 2" by visiting this, which has improvements in synthesis and vocoder quality, and also lets people contribute:

https://api.vo.codes/enable

This is far from state of the art, but you can see at the other end of the spectrum that it's an easy toy that anybody can use.

I'm working on a photo -> 3D rigged model system and model style transfer. You can follow me on Twitch or Twitter to see that when it's ready.

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Post by dotancohen »

abdel_nasser wrote: post #10

so they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.

I just watched the trailer, if you click the red pill it certainly sounds like his voice narrating. And his character is also portrayed.

https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...

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Post by WorldMaker »

abdel_nasser wrote: post #10

so they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.

Spoilers for a game that cannot be played in 2021 and can barely be watched on YouTube: Morpheus died in The Matrix Online and the filmmakers have stated the events in Online remain canon.

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Post by yepthatsreality »

leephillips wrote: post #30

Why is this called Matrix 4 when there is only one Matrix movie?

Disagree, the trilogy is one of the best Sci-Fi trilogies available and utilizes ideas about people and computing in unique ways. I always heard that the sequels didn’t live up to the hype and avoided them during release. It was only later that I rented them and found out I was taking advice from lowest common denominator action movie fans. I only label those fans like that because their criticism only makes sense if you treat and view the films as blockbusters (which I think they’re pretty good at too).

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Post by xvector »

Is it just me or does this feel kind of hamfisted? I think it would be a cool side detail to have (i.e. an analogue or digital clock shown somewhere in the trailer with the time), but it was kind of jarring and out of place to loudly hear the current time.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by remram »

TYPE_FASTER wrote: post #25

Each segment of the trailer is a different MP4. They are all hosted on the AWS CloudFront CDN. My guess is, like somebody stated, they pre-rendered many videos, and use a lambda at the edge to decode a GUID in the URL into a S3 path.

Those are probably not GUIDs but hashes used for cache busting. Changing them doesn't change the content. Running a lambda for this also seems uselessly costly.
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