Microsoft is putting a face — deliberately stylized, tightly guarded, and experiment-first — on Copilot by rolling out a new Copilot Labs feature called Portraits, a real‑time animated portrait system that lip‑syncs, nods, and emotes during voice conversations and is currently available only to...
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This research showcases a new, 3-D, photo-real talking head with freely controlled head motions and facial expressions. It extends our prior, high-quality, 2-D, photo-real talking head to 3-D. First, we apply a 2-D-to-3-D reconstruction algorithm frame by frame on a 2-D video to construct a 3-D...