Instant sex change served up by video software
Changing someone’s gender or race on screen traditionally requires lengthy hours in front of a make-up mirror. But new software that can take a live video feed of a person talking and make them look and sound like somebody else could change that.
Psychologists rather than moviegoers are the first to see the benefits of the new technology: putting it to use in experiments that test how a person’s gender affects the body language of others.
The software was developed by computer scientist Barry-John Theobald at the University of East Anglia in the UK and Iain Matthews, formerly at Carnegie Mellon University and now at Weta Digital in Wellington, New Zealand. They were approached by psychologists at three US universities searching for a way to switch the apparent gender of volunteers talking to each other through video conference software.
Via newscientist.com. Adds a new twist to the broadcast Doktor Sleepless did about authenticity…
