Will digital actors break into advertising?

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Now that the Japanese are experimenting with androids in their advertising, how long will it be before completely digital actors start selling us stuff? Maybe a little while, judging by this video from Pendulum Studios. The company is getting better at facial rendering but isn’t quite there yet. Advertising, of course, relies on a certain level of trust, which digitally rendered models would violate no matter how lifelike they were. (If you can tell they’re fakes, you won’t believe them; and if you can’t, you’ll feel you’ve been tricked.)

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