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The progress towards indistinguishable-from-reality realism in graphics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo5ztSsA_zk

The tech is great and should be developed. But I worry about faking evidence, in court as well as in the news. It will get to the point where you can put any words in anyone's mouth, and seeing will be believing.

Perhaps it will be detectable, with technical effort, for some time to come, but as a propaganda and government corruption tool it will complete the circle started by the "telescreen/ankle bracelets" we all carry in our pockets.

The facial expressions were pretty mind blowing. I sometimes think with VR and graphics getting so good, will some gamers actually spend more time in virtual worlds than the real world

In 15 years maybe the bandwidth will be there, and we can have full-face VR headsets that also face track and transmit expressions to other people in virtual worlds.

The allure is there - be convincingly you, but also look however you want to look. That would get eaten up by a lot of people.

Yet the teeth/tongue were obviously wrong, and the hands' motion felt... off. The Uncanny Valley effect is difficult to overcome, while we're getting closer it's not until things are perfect that the improvement really matters.

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