Nvidia’s computer-generated CEO delivers a virtual keynote speech.
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Earlier this year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stood in his kitchen and delivered a press conference for the company’s latest technology. Except he didn’t, because the whole thing, the setting and the CEO himself, was entirely computer-generated, Nvidia explained in a blog post Wednesday.
Like many companies, Nvidia has switched to online “virtual” press conferences during the coronavirus pandemic. Huang has broadcast several announcements from his kitchen, which meant no one saw anything different in April’s GTC keynote presentation discussing the Nvidia Omniverse system.
But Nvidia was showing, not telling. Known for their graphics cards, the company built the keynote event using Omniverse tools for creating 3D virtual worlds. Engineers did a full face and body scan of the CEO and created a 3D model of Huang, then programmed it to mimic his gestures and expressions. It was this CG clone, known in the visual effects world as a digital double, that delivered the keynote speech.
Here’s the video — see if you can tell the difference:
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