Ari Shapiro, Ph.D. (@AriYShapiro) profile picture

Scientist, engineer and researcher. Baseball enthusiast.

Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2011
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At some point, deepfake videos will be pixel perfect, indistinguishable to the naked eye. Can you detect a deepfake through the underlying signature of a person's real movements and behavior? youtu.be/yBEoGdgIui8
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My Rapid Avatar scanning work turning people into digital humans, featured in a segment on The Future is Now show m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLB…
Insanely long lines waiting to vote in primaries in Sherman Oaks. 3+ he wait times.
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Virtual real estate agent in A/R youtu.be/m8isaEpnj20 Build your own avatar-based chatbot in minutes: embodydigital.com/expertaido… #augmentedreality #chatbots #ai
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Embody Digital's software is allowing @DrScottMorgan to express himself through his digital doppelgänger. A digital version of himself was created that will allow him not only to be heard, but seen with emotion, expression and personality.
MY LATEST AVATAR TEST if you haven’t seen it, thanks to some amazing rebels at Optimize3D, Octagon, CereProc, Intel and Embody Digital (whose software automatically animates the character based only on text and the emotion of the speaker)! Still early days youtube.com/watch?v=_bsWguba…
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Making robots and avatars more human-like. See our blog post about our collaboration with Hanson Robotics and the @RealSophiaRobot link.medium.com/mFHiu2bLXV
On the heels of @Apple's Heart Study that looked at irregular heart beats via the Apple Watch Series 4, note my team's joint work with Dr, Leslie Saxon on building a digital doctor that can be available 24/7 for responses to medical questions. youtu.be/m4cfLiyJTto
UbeBot - avatarize yourself with a photo, talk, interact and make videos in A/R youtu.be/b5ELvXjvcWI On the Google Play Store: play.google.com/store/apps/d… #AugmentedReality #avatar
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The Italian show Report covering my team's joint work with Dr. Leslie Saxon for creating virtual doctors on mobile devices (time 24:55 through 28:10) rai.it/programmi/report/inch… I sound really nice speaking Italian!
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Selfie with a celebrity - Hanson Robotics' Sophia. – at Los Angeles, CA
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AppShow streaming live. appshow.com/live featuring new A/R apps – at San Francisco, CA
Volumetric video from Raspberry PIs! Thanks to visiting scholar Andrea Boensch. This is a step towards democratizing this kind of data which has all sorts of interesting uses in VR, A/R and 3D simulations. youtube.com/watch?v=PBiyuZNe…
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Building characters that can interact with you. Embody Digital's interaction tech with Google's ARcore framework. youtu.be/rwQA_zpzCEg
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Our full Rapid Avatar pipeline explained at #SIGGRAPH2017 Sun at 3 pm. Avatars that look like you in 20 minutes using off-the-shelf hardware
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