Meet “Ira.”

Ira isn’t an actual human being—he’s just a computer model—but you’d be forgiven for not being able to tell the difference.

“Not only does Ira look real, but this is all generated in real time,” Nvidia, the graphics chip company, suggested in a recent video demonstration. “His skin has bumps and blemishes that move and stretch as Ira blinks and grimaces. Those imperfections make Ira far more real than the fake, rubbery faces generated by previous generations of graphics technology [...Read More]