The below is a summary of my article about human digital twins.
The MetaHuman Creator from Epic Games allows users to generate highly realistic and customizable 3D digital humans. With precision over features and expressions, MetaHumans have enormous potential to transform entertainment and corporate training.
Epic demonstrated MetaHuman’s new iPhone-based facial animation tools, which captured an actor’s expressions in real time to animate a digital character. This technology greatly speeds up animation and allows easy application of an actor’s performance to different MetaHumans.
Hyper-realistic digital humans are already impacting businesses by providing personalized customer service 24/7 without human employees. Integrated with natural language AI, digital assistants create seamless customer interactions, freeing staff for complex work. Digital humans also enable consistent on-brand service.
In entertainment, digital actors allow filmmakers to cheaply create custom, believable characters. Small studios could feasibly produce blockbuster films with digital casts. This emerging technology signals massive opportunities but poses risks for human actors.
Actors should proactively embrace motion capture and other techniques to work with digital humans, enhancing their versatility. By licensing their likeness early, actors can benefit from the future use of digital twins. Adapting now allows them to extend their career digitally.
However, challenges exist in developing specialized skills to work in a highly technical environment while retaining spontaneous authentic performances. And advanced digital humans could significantly displace human actors. Acting without consent via digital twins also raises major ethical concerns.
Overall, while digital human technology holds great promise for many fields, its rise requires adapting policies to ensure proper consent, protections for actors, and responsible use. If embraced prudently, more realistic synthetic actors could unlock creativity in entertainment and business. However ethical risks must be preemptively addressed as this technology rapidly evolves.
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