Mark Zuckerberg Shows Photorealistic Virtual Reality System with Lex Fridman
September 28th, 2023Here's my conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, his 3rd time on the podcast, but this time we talked in the Metaverse as photorealistic avatars. This was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. It really felt like we were talking in-person, but we were miles apart ? It's… pic.twitter.com/Nu8a3iYWm0
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) September 28, 2023
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Man, I don’t know what to think of this. From the telegraph to photorealistic virtual reality.
I wonder what my great grandfather would have thought of a phone booth? To talk to someone from virtually anywhere (literally anywhere later). And to use real money to pay for the cost of making that happen. Powerful.
Something gained. Something lost.
I remember, just a few decades ago, telling jokes. Seemed like almost everyone did it, on a daily basis. Hear a joke, pass it on. Hear it once, tell it twenty times. Trucker tells a joke, pays for his coffee, drives to the next town. Viral before the term. Pretty soon, …tell me if you heard this one.
Some were better at it than others. Remember screwing one up? Switch the last two words and you ruined it. Means the same either way but you lost the punchline. Subtle. There was a language training that no longer takes place. I don’t know where I’m going this. Maybe that’s the point.
It is an impressive demonstration. We need to keep in mind that they had to perform something akin to a Hollywood movie grade 3D scan of both people to make it possible. Then some amount of manual rigging. This result looks like what digital filmmakers are able to achieve with sophisticated motion capture systems.
My guess is that anything that looks this good in realtime is not close to mainstream availability, but I could be wrong.