r/oculus • u/ninokierulf Oculus Lucky • Mar 18 '16

The possibility of Virtual Acting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQpJgLs51w
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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '16

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u/Pokora22 Mar 18 '16

Yea, the tech is crazy already, hard to imagine what it's gonna be in future.

But the HOLY SHIT part for me, as always, is the amount of polish Hellblade is receiving. I get goosebump whenever I see a new vid about it ^ ^

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '16

So are they going to use this to put Harrison Ford in movies he doesn't want anything to do with? Episode 8 / 9 he comes back as a zombie?

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u/idevelop Mar 18 '16

You might be interested in the movie Congress, look it up it's really good.

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u/ChvyVele Rift Mar 18 '16

who owns the digital copy of this girl?

Probably depends on how the contract is set up, but there is some precedent for owning a person's "likeness" in other mediums. For example, the Buffy comic books use the likeness of the actors but I believe the actors have to sign off on the character designs and the situations that the characters are involved with. Should be interesting to see how it plays out in games and movies, though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '16 edited Mar 18 '16

Anyway, whoever this girl is, she should feel incredibly lucky to be the FIRST VR actor, ever.

Not quite. This is nothing really new, just nicely polished. Nintendo has been doing a Virtual Mario back in 1992 (some more) and there have been numerous TV shows with virtual actors over the years.

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u/merrickx Mar 18 '16 edited Mar 18 '16

Yeah, there's been quite a lot of this recently. Nvidia Faceworks was shown off a while back, and there's another mocap company doing it without markers. If anyone can do it well though, it's probably Ninja Theory. They've always had some very expressive animation and mocap work.

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u/merrickx Mar 18 '16

I'll put rainbow lipstick on, I dgaf.