When Jennifer Aniston proved she can act - and deserves respect 7 but just now tweaking the brains of pop culture fans - as photos of the actress flash in the background. “There is scientific evidence that when you look at this - there is probably one neuron, one cell in your brain that is activated by all of those photos,” the bearded Palo Alto, California-based scientist says in the clip - originally posted on Oct. However, as of Wednesday afternoon, more than 285,000 TikTok users are suddenly familiar with the “Friends” star’s legit scientific impact thanks to a now-viral video about it posted by neuroscientist - and digital content creator - Dr. This celeb-focused brain bit was first discovered when neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, then based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, published a landmark study about it in 2015. The scientific community has actually long been aware that Aniston inspired something much headier than “The Rachel” hairdo. TikTok has discovered the “Jennifer Aniston Neuron” - a single brain cell that’s “activated” by photos of the actress - and it has ignited a viral moment for the surprisingly complex concept. Neuroscience is having a mainstream moment thanks to America’s dear friend. Model passes out while joining mile high club in a midair romp gone wrong Sexy ‘pottery girl’ goes viral on TikTok for her wet ceramic sessions My baby has so much hair everyone says she looks like Gordon Ramsey Other solution based on cameras require usually a fixed setup and lots of calibrations.My ‘worst date ever’ said he hated my outfit and tried to make me buy new clothes The perception neuron suit is currently the best tool (and almost the only one), since it there is support for it into unity, maya, blender, facerig, vr chat, but it is expensive (around 1500$)
(tracking hands is available with neuron, but requires the full 32 sensors) This currently requires a lot of additional sensors and rais cost a lot. Curiously face tracking seems to evolve more rapidily since you can find now applications able to track your face with a simple webcamĭespite several attempt (gloves or cameras like the Leap Motion), none is working nicely enough. VR chat are more oriented to human interaction and could also need data from the hands and finger and even face tracking for emotion. The Vive solution is interesting because it is game oriented (basically you just track head, hands, feet and you can reconstruct body position from a few sensor). With a a body capture, each step would be a different one.Īnd lots of games are not even totally decoupled (meaning your walk direction is where you are looking at). So basically when you push the UP key on keyboard, you just trigger the WALK routine that launch the walk animation (left foot, right foot, and repeat)
Implementing more (like total free motion), is a lot of work, if you understand that most characters in games are driven just by a few of poses (or animation), each one being pre-recorded. Kinect was better at that, but was a bit slow. Each suit has a different number of sensor and placement and ouput a lot of data that is irrelevant to games where you only need to know a few actions and position (like idle, walk, run, jump, kick, crouch etc.). The biggest problem for developer is the lack of standard.
Salto (Smartsuit pro) changed from cheap to expensive and late (still not available, if ever) and PrioVR is still vaporware after several years. There was several attempt to deliver body tracking for cheap, but only one project really succeed :Perception Neuron. So you understand that developpers where not happy to see their efforts going to the drain (while many of these applications are still working fine, like faceshift (killed by Apple), brekel, Skanect, ReconstructMe etc.).įor the MoCap Suit, it is a different story. Oculus killed NimbleVR kickstarter buy buying it and then never released a product, Apple purchased PrimeSense and killed it (never delivered a product), Microsoft killed Kinect (mainly because they had to pay royalties to Primesense), then developed Kinect 2 on their own and killed it soon after , intel killed their first camera R200, F200 and most SDK are today archived or abandoned. Kinect 1(primesense), Kinect 2(Microsoft), Asus Xtion (primesense), RealSense (intel), a few product even never pass the prototype stage. Since a few years, new technologies have replaced the expensive equipment with very cheap ones (the cheapest being the Microsoft Kinect), but due to the lack of standard most of these products were soon abandoned.
Body tracking is an old technology that was reserved to professional due to the price of the equipement.