by ICT Admin | Jul 24, 2014 | News
Voice of America featured Ari Shapiro and Rapid Avatar Generation, the three minute process for turning people into avatars. “For me it is exciting to see what we now have,” said Shapiro, describing a low-cost technology that may revolutionize social media....
by ICT Admin | Jul 23, 2014 | News
A story about the increasing number of scientists involved in film animation quotes Paul Debevec. “The physics behind what’s happening in these movies is incredibly complicated,” said Debevec, a computer scientist and chief visual officer at the USC...
by ICT Admin | Jul 21, 2014 | News
An article in Motherboard exploring the ability for virtual reality to alter people’s perceptions quoted Skip Rizzo, cited his work treating post-traumatic stress disorder and noted that he leads the Medical Virtual Reality Group at ICT
by ICT Admin | Jul 21, 2014 | News
A Forbes column by Steven Kotler discusses Ellie, ICT’s virtual human interview who is part of the DARPA-funded SimSensei project. Ellie evolved from the suspicion that our twitches and twerks and tones reveal much more about our inner state than our words (thus...
by ICT Admin | Jul 20, 2014 | News
In advance of the SIGGRAPH 2014 conference, Paul Debevec, ICT’s chief visual officer, answered questions on Reddit’s Ask Me Anything. Debevec fielded questions on computer graphics education and careers, movie special effects, future research directions...
