Microsoft is quietly testing a Copilot Labs experiment called Portraits that would let users pick from 40 animated, non‑photorealistic 3D avatars — powered by Microsoft Research’s VASA‑1 — and speak to them in voice mode, according to an internal description surfaced by testers; the rollout...
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Photographer Bob Garas has revealed his favourite subject to work with are frogs and he can spend hours waiting for them to strike the perfect pose in his studio.
Garas often spends hours working with his subjects – his frogs – waiting for them to stretch for the perfect pose.
‘Every...