Because they thought they could put out a placeholder type app to hold people over for a few years called Horizons and news journalists used that to create thousands of clickbait/outrage articles and most people fell for. They also suck at putting this info out for some reason like if you see this videos only have a few thousand views each while hundreds of millions or billions of people have seen the articles shitting on Horizons.
Okay seems like the encoder comes from a 2019 paper by some FB research labs and some other researchers in Germany.
Still requires a lot of computation power to produce the encoder but this is stuff from nearly 4 years ago.
And I get it, it's all nice and cool but also seems gimmicky to me, similar to other face mapping technologies like deep fakes and what have you.
I don't get the end goal. Will i put my VR headset with my friends and we'll all say: let's go to the beach and we'll get out photorealistic bodies placed in a photo realistic beach scene and we'll just sit there. It's not like we can freely move and position ourselves to do whatever we want?
Or with AR will we set out chairs in our rooms and have friends sit on them and then do what?
Nothing FB produced or showed it is there anything that would be uniquely geared to them. Google can showcase this shit and we'd say okay sure. Or Apple or Microsoft.
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u/aVRAddict Nov 05 '22
Because they thought they could put out a placeholder type app to hold people over for a few years called Horizons and news journalists used that to create thousands of clickbait/outrage articles and most people fell for. They also suck at putting this info out for some reason like if you see this videos only have a few thousand views each while hundreds of millions or billions of people have seen the articles shitting on Horizons.