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@itsolelehmann Post-it-note ears, super low effort.

Ex Machina is no longer sci-fi. China has finally built it. The company is AheadForm, founded in Shanghai. The product is the world's most hyper-realistic robotic face. Silicone skin you can't tell from human, 25 micro motors hidden underneath pulling the face into real expressions. And RGB cameras embedded inside the pupils so when it looks at you, it actually sees you from where its eyes are. They raised $28.5M to "give AI a head," which is also where the name comes from. AheadForm = a head form. This is the opposite of where everyone else in robotics is focused. Unitree, Figure, Tesla, Boston Dynamics: all about the body. AheadForm chose the face because they think trust is the harder problem to solve, and trust gets decided at the face. The reason nobody else has tried this is the "uncanny valley." It's the creepy zone where a robot looks almost human but not quite, and looking at it just feels wrong even when you can't say why. Most roboticists believed no amount of engineering could make a face realistic enough to escape it. So they gave up and kept robots cartoonish on purpose: big anime eyes, exaggerated features, clearly synthetic. But AheadForm decided to treat it as an engineering bug instead. Add enough motors, tune the silicone, fix the timing, the valley closes. And they're pulling it off. A few crazy details about how this actually works: 1. The robot learns its own face in a mirror. You put it in front of a camera, let it fire every motor randomly, and it watches what its face does and builds an internal map of "if I send command X to motor Y, my eyebrow does this." Same exact process a human baby uses staring into a mirror. The robot teaches itself who it is by experimenting. 2. It predicts your smile 839 milliseconds before you smile. By watching the micro-tells in your face that precede a smile, the robot starts smiling 0.8 seconds ahead, so its smile lands at the same moment yours does. Most robot mimicry happens half a second late, which is exactly why it always feels artificial. 3. The pupils are the cameras. When the robot makes eye contact, the gaze and the sensor are the same physical thing. Most humanoid robots stick the camera on the forehead or chest, so they aren't actually looking at you when their eyes are pointed at you. 4. The founder, Yuhang Hu, did his PhD at Columbia under Hod Lipson. Lipson is the guy who in 2006 built a four-legged robot that figured out it had four legs by experimenting with its own movement, nobody told it the body shape, it discovered it. He has spent 25 years trying to build machines that know what they are. AheadForm is that 25-year research arc productized. 5. NetEase Games already paid them to physically embody a fantasy video game character. That opens up a brand-new category: robotics as the physical embodiment of fictional IP. Every character-rich studio, Disney, Riot, Hoyoverse, Pokemon, Netflix, now has a question to answer about when their characters get bodies. AheadForm believes whoever ships the first robot you'd actually want around your family wins. That's the bet behind the most realistic robot face on earth.

@SketchesbyBoze People who don’t appreciate what came before, are called Millennials.

Not going to boost this account but this is a terrible way to approach life. This attitude is the reason kids are growing up never hearing of Robin Hood or King Arthur. They have been deprived of their inheritance. Resist the tyranny of the present moment.

@Kai_zen78 All of the wilderness camps (Hearths) have respawning food chests.

Crimson Desert infinite food chest. Respawns forever. Need Chapter 9. Via: No-Astronaut-1238 on reddit

@Polynomos @pureMetatron @RevRayCistman Were Anglo Saxons building pyramids? Ignorant.

@pureMetatron @RevRayCistman The racial element to slavery was first implemented by white Anglo Saxons in order to better industrialize the practice. Stop pretending to misunderstand the assertion.

Who ended slavery?

@Wisdom_HQ FDA was compromised.

What went wrong?

@Pirat_Nation I didn’t know Tarantino was a gamer!

A player with over 200 hours in Crimson Desert has been messaging the developers about a bug with the character Demaine. Her boots and armor cover her feet, so he cannot see them, and this is making him lose interest in the game. He wrote, “Still can’t see Demaine’s feet… losing interest in the game… Please fix this,” and wants an immediate fix.

@TheMiddleborne She certainly was an asshole. Rewatch it.

A great example of how to do the kind of female character Captain Marvel pretended to be is Rita Vrataski from Edge of Tomorrow. She’s jaded, tough as nails, hyper skilled and incredibly competent. But she doesn’t once come across as smugb*tch like Danvers. And Emily Blunt plays her with incredible heart. It’s clear that the jaded woman she is now isn’t who she always was, and her facade starts to crack litte by little as the film goes on. Danvers *never* changes. She doesn’t have a facade due to hardship and trauma. She’s a b*tch who’s proud of it and doesn’t need to change. She doesn’t need to prove anything to anybody because she’s already the best. Rita Vrataski is a beloved character. Danvers is not

@Joseph_Witty Woot, fat hookers!

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced looks GOD TIER 😯🔥 Ubisoft just sent me HELLA gameplay 😌

@HenrickMorris @1Sean_Connors @rittenhouse2a Who cares. You don’t hold life as valuable.

@1Sean_Connors @rittenhouse2a It's gender affirming care, dumbass!

The retardation of the communist Left still amazes me: we are in 2026 and they STILL believe I shot black people. 🤡

@BellaBaddie__ You need a better sound system. The 5.1 surround is designed for all voices to come from center speaker. Just using 2 speakers with a woofer will have audio level issues.

Does anyone else spend the entire modern movie turning the volume up and down because there is zero sound consistency in movies anymore?

This is me too. Tried buying/playing RDR2, but old email on their end was a non-starter for them. So I refunded and won’t buy anything of thiers again.

@ermin_h @CrimsonDesert_ Why? There’s endless supply of them.

@CrimsonDesert_ That's great. As fun as the game is, IMO one of the biggest missteps was requiring Abyss Artifacts in item refinement.

Hello Greymanes, We'd like to share some info about the schedule and major update content of our next patch. The update will be released within the next few days and will include new special mounts, an extraction feature that will allow you to recover materials used in equipment refinement, and more. We hope you're looking forward to this update! Thank you for your continued support.

@catsareblessing Weened em too soon.

Zero Patience, Maximum Excitement

@Shpeshal_Nick You’re a tourist if you think 20 hrs is a long game. Sorry.

The fuck How is 20 hours “short”/wait for sale material? Fuck man, no wonder the AAA industry is cooked. Gamers ruining everything again

@_TheImpureKing_ Marry a gamer, morons.

To the male gamers out there - would you give up video games if a potential romantic partner wanted you to? Saw a tweet going around from a woman who said ladies find it disgusting when men game and it’s a major turn off as a partner.

@GreymanesGuild @CrimsonDesert_ Freezing character after fast travel.

Crimson Desert Bug and Glitch checkpoint! ⚠️ What bugs or glitches are you currently experiencing in Crimson Desert? Let us know below 👇

@NikTek I played through it, and most rooms only had 3-6 pieces of furniture.

We took Assassin's Creed Unity visuals for granted because how come this game looks this freaking GOOD graphically even for today's standards

So my adventure in Crimson Desert wraps up: 240 hrs played 9 Steam achievements 🤔 I've missed games that accept the player is intelligent. Good job Pearl Abyss. Well done.

@Bornakang There was an Impala coupe?

Biggest car downgrade in my opinion Chevy Impala.

@nabilJV Did you open the flower roof?

90% des joueurs de crimson desert ne sont pas venu ici...