http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=30914

I can't wait =)

Thats interesting, i hadnt realised motion capture was at that point

well when quad core 8 gig cpu's are the standard, ill await that technology for ...hmm, maybe Half-Life 3? ^^

4 gig quad core overclocked tot he point i could probaly run a entire game server from it with ease, that count ?

well by standard i ment that the spec would be considerd mid range or lower, obviously that is available now to those with above average budgets.

O and i was thinking about this thread today, and it got my inner conspiracy theorist going.I started to think of ways this technology, or something alil more advanced ( usualy what we see is a good step down from what is already created) , could be used in devious ways, such as forging false statements from suspects, or even confessions...who knows what else ...DUN DUN DUN *shiffty eyes

Mo-cap renders a lot of bugs when you use it and it makes the animation look stiff and emotionless unless an animator goes through all of it to make it fit into an animation "standard". Problem with computer animation is if you take a human and imitate 100% of its movements and emotions, people won't enjoy looking at it and find it weird. That's what they teach in 3D animation courses.

Mo-cap is a nice tool, but still needs a lot of work to be perfect but we'll always need good animators to go through all of it to make it "fit for the screen".

That little demo-clip looked pretty "fit for the screen" to me.

by then we'll have quantum computers.

Leafar:
by then we'll have quantum computers.

Heh, i just did a massive report on those. No chance they'll ever exist. There's a slight problem in that the second you read from memory, the contents are already different.

the " Refresh" button would be kinda useless lol ..."Computer, show me the present" "Im sorry,that is now the past"

"Here's a random guess at what i think the most likely thing stored in your quantum RAM is: *insert goat porn here*"

"JESUS CHRIST, WHY DID I SPEND 5 MILLION DOLLARS ON THIS MACHINE!?"

Yes, at a quantum level the only way to retrieve data is to calculate the most probable arrangement of 1s and 0s. Is it just me who thinks that's useless for computing?

Wow. That's pretty hardcore. A bit too uncanny valley for my tastes, though.

Back on topic, this is rather similar and absolutely amazes me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA&feature=related

I think I've seen that a long time ago, cheese, though that is still amazing even today. Mona Lisa creeps me out, though.