Take a look at the most realistic next-gen real-time face in Unreal Engine 5

Ziva Dynamics has released a beta version of ZRT Face Trainer; a new machine-learning-trained cloud-based facial rigging.

[CrimsonWing69]

so, when will we actually see games look like this?

[My_Name_is_Earl]

When Unreal 8 releases. They do this all the time and we never see it in game.

[0hMyGandhi]

I feel like we made good progress with LA Noire.
And some of the expressions in Injustice 2 were absolutely incredible.

[ajax17]

I'm sure whatever Quantic Dream's next game is will be close to this.

[ScootaKuH]

Not this gen, although we're getting close

[LightofDarkness]

Well they're focusing 100% of the rendering power on one human head and face, so not any time soon if you're expecting there to be anything else in the scene. And then longer if you're planning on running it on anything less than a high end professional GPU.

[fr0sty]

Even applying this tech to lower resolution models will yield a jump in realism we've never experienced in-game before.

[TinkerNation]

This exactly. Same thing with many other individual components, like physics, destruction, AI, all of it is, and can be way more advanced than what we see in games today, but when you have to deal with so many different parts together, each individual part suffers as a result.

[ColtPSSX]

Man games are becoming crazy realistic.
I can’t even imagine dismembering someone and it has release in gore. Crazy.

[XbladeTeddy]

Once tech is able to simulate life that's when we all find out we've all been living in a simulation!

[Ashunderfire86]

That be from Mark Zuckerberg’s META VR platform.

[Einhander1971]

Let's see this tech in games :)

[Stanjara]

Die-Hardman?

[goldwyncq]

Imagine an LA Noire game with this tech

[galgor]

See y'all in 20 years when this tech is available.

[bunt-custardly]

This tech would work well in a game which just focuses on simple background and face. One of those visual novels for example. As long as using the tools is more cost effective than simply hiring a real human to do the performance and using pre-recorded video instead.

[SprigganN4G]

Dear lord!

[ApocalypseShadow]

It may not be in all games, may only be in certain settings. But you will see it happening THIS GEN in games just like Ray Tracing is now a thing THIS GEN. Just like some games this gen will have 8K support. Just like right now we got games that support 120fps.

Not only that, but you WILL see this in and out of VR. Possibly AR depending on the next glasses and headsets coming. Companies like Nvidia, Epic, Sony, Facebook, etc, aren't investing in Meta Humans for nothing. Minds will be blown THIS GEN. It just has been kind of delayed because of Covid.

[sourOG]

Animations sell it for me. It doesn’t matter if it’s artfully exaggerated movement or realistic movement. They are as much of an expression as the art style itself. I could love a terrible looking game if I liked the animations.

[WelkinCole]

Thats pretty cool. Alawys good to see such devlopement looking at the future. Got to start from somewhere. Likely PS7 or 8

[ScootaKuH]

There's still something slightly unnatural about it but at the same time it is very, very impressive

[l33t_haxx0r]

First it was deepfake, now this, we live in a golden age

[bunt-custardly]

What this really needs though, is AI to be able to replicate the voice from just a few sentences. This would then just require the scan of the actor/actress and a short recording session for the audio. The tech is most likely already available for this.