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This company makes hyper-realistic 'digital humans' - and it could be the key to merging real life with virtual reality

Kaylee Fagan   

This company makes hyper-realistic 'digital humans' - and it could be the key to merging real life with virtual reality
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Siren, animation, real-time tracking

Cubic Motion

Meet Siren. She's a digital human, and the image of her above is not a photograph.

Siren is an animated character, with hyper-realistic details around her eyes, skin and hair, similar to those seen in big budget video games and 3D-animated movies.

Beyond the unsettling realism in her rendering, Siren is remarkable because while making her debut at last week's Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, she was being puppeted by a real actress in real time.

Take a look at Siren and Cubic Motion's other "digital humans":

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