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Video: How to virtualize your face into a realistic 3D avatar

March 19th, 2009

At my other blog, I just posted a slightly off-track video on how I virtualized myself, with the help of a pioneering Belgian tech company, which rules the emerging H2A-conversion industry (Human-To-Avatar). This resulted from my presence at the excellent Plugg event on innovation and entrepreneurship in Brussels, where Dirk Callaerts, the president of Eyetronics gave me a short explanation of their amazing virtualization technology. I discussed the privacy challenges of this technology and accepted to get myself virtualized in a similar way as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman. Major movie stars use these scans to get their face applied to stand-ins and stunt men. But also because the insurance companies require them to get virtualized, so that expensive movies can be finished, in the unfortunate event something happens to the leading actors.



For those who do not live on a film set, there are many application for this technology too. Think about the gaming industry or online communities. But also the biometrics industry could use these high resolution scans to improve facial recognition application. Another market for these scans is to produce miniature physical copies of your virtual self. The cosmetics industry already knows vanity is a great revenue driver…

Now that I got my face virtualized, I am able to send stand-ins for those dangerous tech interviews in the heated hypervisor battle fields around the world :)

Which usefull or fun applications can you imagine for this technology? Would you be willing to pay to get your face virtualized & obatin a realistic3D-avatar on your favorite social network?

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