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One day everyone will have their own digital version! One way or another. A copy or a stylized avatar that looks a lot like you. Yes, we have already heard this word and started to use it. Avatars have become our virtual identity on the internet. We chose a tiny profile image for ourselves and started using it everywhere on the internet. But these tiny avatars won't be enough for the next phase of the internet - the metaverse that's been talked about these days. We will use ultra-realistic 3D digital people that we can animate in real-time. We will express our emotions with these virtual beings. Similar to using emojis in written communication, in visual communication these digital people's faces will reflect our emotional state. The footage you just watched was not of a real person. It's hard to believe, I know but it was a face that someone had completely digitally modeled. Let's take a closer look, shall we? The eyebrows, eyes, wrinkles on the forehead are so perfect that they cannot be distinguished from the real thing. On the other hand, it's not perfect either. Some dots on the corner of the lips add to the believability even more. But as I said, this is a 3D model. It was made in 4.5 days using the open-source and free software Blender by an artist named Chris Jones. It is an artistic handcraft-like workpiece which deserves to be appreciated. Those who use 3D design and modeling software know very well. It used to take weeks or even months to do this kind of work. And after it was done, each frame had to be calculated one by one by powerful computers, and, "rendered". For example, the calculation of each frame of the dinosaurs in the movie Jurassic Park, one of the first movie characters created by a computer, took 12 hours despite the use of the most powerful computers in the world in those years. Each frame is 12 hours. There are at least 24 frames in 1 second. Moreover, they are not as realistic as the example I just showed you. However, if you calculate it, it takes 360 days to simply "render" a 30-second image. Almost 1 year! This was the case only 28 years ago. A digital entity could only come into the world after years of work by dozens of specialist artists working for the world's best visual effects company. Even the worst phone we carry in our pocket today is faster than the computers of that time. And, as I just showed, very realistic digital humans can be made in a few days. What if I told you that as of 2021 these can now be produced instantly… Completely in real-time?
There is also a special name given to this new generation of digital people: MetaHuman.