Avatar Technology from USC Captures Your Body in 20 Minutes

The graphics lab at ICT captures high-quality digital faces for film with special (and expensive) scanning equipment. Ari Shapiro runs a research group called the Character Animation Simulation Research Group and one of its goals is to create a digital person that can behave like a real one. There are certainly means to do this, but not in a financially accessible way that produces a high-quality final product.
Upload VR sat down with Ari Shapiro to explore Rapid Avatar. Read the full article here.