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Your selfies are about to get a whole lot more realistic.
Loom.ai, a San Francisco-based tech startup that wants to make virtual communication more personal, emerged from stealth mode Tuesday with $1.3 million in seed funding. Using basic digital photos, Loom.ai automatically generates detailed 3D avatars that can be used in text messages, social media, virtual reality games, and e-commerce (think Bitmoji, but 3D and more expressive).
The artificial intelligence startup plans to license the technology to third-party platforms that will incorporate it into new or existing applications.
Loom.ai was founded by seasoned visual effects artists Mahesh Ramasubramanian and Kiran Bhat. Ramasubramanian previously worked at DreamWorks Animation as a visual effects supervisor on movies such as Shrek and Madagascar 3. Bhat worked on facial animation at LucasFilm for movies such as The Avengers and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Until now, creating realistic 3D avatars was an expensive process done exclusively in a Hollywood studio. Ramasubramanian and Bhat want to change that.
“What we found is that the audience no longer wants to sit back and watch a movie — they want to interact抖音风 裸舞,” Bhat says. “We believe that you need to bring the user into the experience, which means figuring out a way to digitize the everyday user just like we used to digitize the movie stars.”
After launching in March, Loom.ai was selected for the Y Combinator fellowship, a remote program that gives prototype-stage startups guidance and $20,000 in funding for 1.5% equity.
Loom.ai relies on machine learning to capture the subtleties of the human face. As the company’s software collects more data about facial movements, it becomes better at guessing and inferring other facial expressions as well.
“Even if we can’t see everything, we can predict a lot of other things about how the face should move,” Ramasubramanian says.
The startup is backed by investors such as Danhua Capital, Y Combinator, Presence Capital, Anorak Ventures, and GV partner Joe Kraus. (Greg Castle, managing partner at Anorak Ventures, was also a seed investor in Oculus, the virtual-reality company now owned by Facebook.)
Loom.ai would not disclose the third-party platforms currently testing its API, but said it’s aiming for platforms like Facebook with a massive user base.
“Facebook has a ton of users, and we would love it if they would use our technology to turn a 2D photograph into a 3D avatar in the future,” Ramasubramanian says.
In October, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a video showing how the future of work would involve 3D avatars talking to each other through the Oculus Rift device.
你的自拍很快就能从2D形成3D了。
Loom.ai是一家旧金山的科技创业公司，该公司悉力于使虚构通信愈加个性化。该平台凭借130万好意思元的种子资金于本周二肃穆上线了。只需要一张简便的数码相片，loom.ai就能自动生成一个鱼贯而入的3D头像，它不错用于短信、酬酢媒体、VR游戏致使是电子商务中（肖似于前一阵独特火了一阵的Bitmoji，只不外它是3D版的，况兼愈加逼真）。
这家东说念主工智能创业公司方案将该时代授权给第三方平台，以将其整合到多样新的或现存的欺骗中。
Loom.ai是由领有多年从业申饬的视觉成果各人马赫什·拉玛萨伯拉玛尼安和基兰·巴特两东说念主创办的。拉玛萨伯拉玛尼安曾在梦工场担任电影视效把持，《怪兽史莱克》和《马达加斯加3》等动画大片齐是出自他的手笔。巴特曾为卢卡斯影业作念过《复仇者定约》和《加勒比海盗》的面部动画联想责任。
直到当今，制作逼确凿3D头像齐短长常不菲的，况兼基本上只可在好莱坞的责任室里完成。拉玛萨伯拉玛尼安和巴特思调动这种情况。
巴特默示：“咱们发现，不雅众不知足于只是坐在那边看电影——他们思要互动。咱们合计，你应该把用户带入到那种体验当中。也即是说，咱们是奈何把电影明星数字化的，就应该以相似的尺度把世俗用户也数字化。”
婷婷成人网Loom.ai公司本年三月诞生后，立即参加了好意思国着名创业孵化器Y Combinator的高眼——Y Combinator一般会向处于原型居品阶段的创业公司提供创业指引和2万好意思元的资金，以疏通对方1.5%的股权。
Loom.ai简略通过机器学习时代捕捉面部细节。它的软件网罗的对于面部畅通的数据越多，就越擅长揣摸东说念主的其它面部颜料。
拉玛萨伯拉玛尼安默示：“就算咱们不知说念统共细节，咱们也能揣摸出对于面部畅通法例的好多其他信息。”
这家创业公司背后的投资东说念主主要有丹华成本、Y Combinator、Presence Capital、Anorak Ventures以及GV结伙东说念主乔·克劳斯等。（Anorak Ventures的任事鼓舞格雷格·卡斯尔亦然VR公司Oculus的别称种子投资东说念主——当前Oculus已被Facebook收购）。
Loom.ai不肯显现当前有哪些第三方平台正在测试它的API，不外该公司默示，它的缱绻是像Facebook这么领有大批用户群的平台。
拉玛萨伯拉玛尼安默示：“Facebook有大批用户群，将来若是他们舒适用咱们的时代将2D像片形成3D头像，咱们一经很乐意的。”
本年10月，Facebook的CEO马克·扎克伯格贴出了一段视频。从视频中不错看出，Facebook正在议论异日通过Oculus Rift斥地让东说念主们通过3D化身在VR天下中实彼此聊天。 （金钱汉文网）
作家：Polina Marinova
译者：朴成奎抖音风 裸舞