Epic Games has announced a new, browser-based software tool powered by its Unreal Engine called the MetaHuman Creator that can craft highly realistic human faces and help power more realistic body movements and facial animations.

Epic provided a sneak peek at the platform today in a pair of YouTube videos showing off examples of creations built using the tool. 

“Metahuman” appears to be the term the company is using to describe this brand of virtual, non-real individual.

Epic says the MetaHuman Creator can be used in conjunction with modern motion capture and animation techniques for creating lifelike movements and human interactions scenes built for video games, film, TV, and other formats.

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The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Observatory (GBO) and National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and Raytheon Intelligence & Space conducted a test in November to prove that a new radio telescope system can capture high-resolution images in near-Earth space.

The radar image of the region where Apollo 15 landed in 1971. The snake-like feature is Hadley Rille, a remnant of ancient volcanic activity, probably a collapsed lava tube.

The crater at top, alongside the rille, is called Hadley C and is about 6 kilometers in diameter.

This image shows objects as small as 5 meters across.

“The planned system will be a leap forward in radar science, allowing access to never before seen features of the Solar System from right here on Earth,” said Karen O’Neil, the Green Bank Observatory site director.

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By CHRIS DIXON for Popular Mechanics  Image: Airstream

Due to COVID-19, families are fleeing city homes and abandoning airplane travel for the great American RV walkabout.

Kids are in school virtually. Mom’s as likely to be earning the family keep via a laptop as dad.

Campgrounds are doing record business, and normally empty Bureau of Land Management pull-off areas are now chock full of  camper vans and pull-behind RVs.

Up until now though, what’s been generally lacking has been a dedicated space to get serious remote work done.

That changed this week when Airstream announced the release of its new 30FB Flying Cloud model.

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