Meta is almost here and most of us are planning to have an avatar of our own to negotiate its ever-exciting maze. The more realistic the avatar is more is the more fun. Moreover, it is essential for authentic telepresence. To date, the focus has been on how the avatars would interact or what threats they face. Animatable models capable of photorealistic synthetic representations were produced based on sparse signals like body pose. But who would have thought a costume, that too a real-looking one would make the avatar more meaningful? Synthesizing realistic clothing – a primary need for self-expression – has remained a big challenge in avatar modeling.
Recently Meta published new research in a realistic simulation of clothes for avatars. It has been a long-term goal for Metaverse to design realistic clothes for realistic avatars in real-time. After gathering information from data collected from faceID via real-time eye tracking It uses neural networks to capture encoded information about their appearance and their current state through sensors and decode it to produce the geometry and texture of clothing. The Codec avatars are going to change the view of Meta avatars, which have largely been cartoonish. Mark Zuckerberg, in his interview with Lex Fridman, was hopeful of a Meta future, where one can use the expressionist avatar for recreational activities while making a realistic appearance at formal meetings. Currently, the clothing product runs at just 13 frames per second on an NVIDIA RTX GPU, but it can improve dramatically given the pace machine learning can optimize. Consider how algorithms on phone microphones needed PC GPUs earlier. Certainly, with this development it has come to five miracles away from being ten miracles away, as Yaser Sheikh, Codec Avatar team lead puts it.
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