Hypercinema Week Three: Synthetic Media

The Synthetic media is also known as Ai generated media. The use case of synthetic media is broad in many fields. The format is not only contain to images, it could also be generated voice, music, text, and etc.

There are some applications is used nowadays, for example, Apple Siri which generates output voice informations based on the input. Another example is Chat Bot, and it is normally be seen as AI service that helps human to communicate more efficiently.

RADiCAl is a company that turns costumer's video footage into 3D animations.

Some examples to explore here:

• https://getrad.co/scan/5268/

To generate 3D animation using real people footages is based on motion capture technology, which has several advantages: Low latency, close to real time, results can be obtained. In entertainment applications this can reduce the costs of keyframe-based animation.

How motion is captured.

Motion Caption is also highly used in film and games.

In VR/AR devices, when the user is interacting with the device. Their hand movement is been captured for real-time response.

Ethical Discussion:

• Anonymity

• Copy Right

• Unrealistic Expectations

• Reality Distortion

• Facial Recognition