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My prediction/hope is that NeRFs will totally revolutionize how the film/TV industry. I can imagine: - Shooting a movie from a few cameras, creating a movie version of a NeRF using those angles, and then dynamically adding in other shots in post - Using lighting and depth information embedded in NeRFs to assist in lighting/integrating CG elements - Using NeRFs to generate virtual sets on LED walls (like those on The…
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Possible the comment was directed towards a Western consumer.
Possibly, I'd give it the benefit of the doubt. Either way, I think it is fair to note that other cultures see death & remembrance in different ways.
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"mourn and move on" is a somewhat Western concept of dealing with death. Plenty of cultures around the world have developed different practices, up to religious forms of ancestor worship.
Bs. People do different things. But nobody can sit around wallowing in the VR. Having seen what death of my cousin and grand parents did to the family, moving on helped every one heal in a way. VR would have been a torture to live in.
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At some point you will have heard all possible jokes. What is life without humor?
That's nonsense. There are infinite possible jokes.
Possibly where the Alzheimer's patients are told the same joke over and over, and it does bring them joy, comes to mind.
Nvidia is really turning into an AI powerhouse. The moat around CUDA, and how those target customer aren't as stringent about budget, especially when the hardware cost is tiny compare to what they do. I wonder if they could reach a trillion market cap.
Tangent I wonder what happens to most people when they see innovation such as this. Over the years I have seen numerous mind-blowing AI achievement, which essentially feel like miracles. Yet literally after an hour I forget what I even saw. I don't find these innovations to have a lasting impression on me or on the internet except for the times when these solutions are released to the public for tinkering and they en…
TTS is extremely useful - many people use car nav, TikTok, screen readers, etc even if they don't like voice assistants. Neural TTS is so good now it's being used to fake the original voice actors in video game mods.
Tangent I wonder what happens to most people when they see innovation such as this. Over the years I have seen numerous mind-blowing AI achievement, which essentially feel like miracles. Yet literally after an hour I forget what I even saw. I don't find these innovations to have a lasting impression on me or on the internet except for the times when these solutions are released to the public for tinkering and they en…
I have the impression, that now some of them seem to really end up in some practical applications. Funnily enough someone just today showed me a feature of his phone where you can select some undesired objects in youe photo and it would just replace them with a fitting background indistinguishable from the original photo.
It would be really great to recreate loved ones after they have past in some sort of digital space. As I’ve gotten older, and my parents get older as well, I’ve been thinking more about what my life will be like in old age (and beyond too). I’ve also been thinking what I would want “heaven” to be. Eternal life doesn’t appeal to me much. Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. That…
My gut reaction to 'recreating loved ones in VR' is that it would be torturous more than soothing. Once a person dies, they're gone. The world is different, and nothing will bring them back. Spending time with a simulacrum isn't really spending time with a loved one.
Relevant Asimov story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
IIRC Microsoft had something like this years ago, but the results weren't nearly as smooth or natural looking. I can't remember what it was called, though.
My prediction/hope is that NeRFs will totally revolutionize how the film/TV industry. I can imagine: - Shooting a movie from a few cameras, creating a movie version of a NeRF using those angles, and then dynamically adding in other shots in post - Using lighting and depth information embedded in NeRFs to assist in lighting/integrating CG elements - Using NeRFs to generate virtual sets on LED walls (like those on The…