If you want to have a look at what’s coming (hopefully, soon) to your console or PC in the future, Nvidia has a tech demo you really have to see. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of my favorite graphics card company, took some time at GTC 2013 to show off Nvidia’s Face Works – developed to try and make faces more realistically rendered, on the fly, by their hardware. Now, I know, the static picture lead-in for this article isn’t all that exciting – hey, it’s a pretty elf-fairy-girl or whatever – but the video? The video is really a sight to behold. Click inside to have a look at it.
And here you are. The subtleties of expression being captured here are nothing short of amazing.
Victor Grunn has been a gamer since the days of single-button joysticks and the Atari 800XL. When not lamenting the loss of the Ultima series or setting people on fire in Team Fortress 2, he's an aspiring indie game developer and freelance writer.
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