![]() I was playing around this app myself a couple days ago, but I never expected to be so moved by its use as I am by the photos that were selected here. People have been using the app to animate key figures from world history, people who often lived before the video era. “Even the most humourless of great-grandparents can be rendered into smiling and genteel golems.”ĭ-ID’s technology also featured in the Independent, New York Post, Adweek, Design Taxi, and many others. Tristin Hopper, The Canadian National Post: “It’s hard to explain the mix of emotions that spark upon seeing a photo of Frederick Douglass come alive with the click of a button.” She says “And yet, there he is, blinking and nodding as if he were just alive yesterday, as if he hadn’t died in 1895, years before film recording became commonplace.” “MyHeritage is helping people experience their family history like never before.” ![]() My great great great great grand aunt Jane Rowena Huff Haven’t we always wanted to come face to face with Oscar Wilde? Now we can and see him blink! #MyHeritage #OscarWilde /xV8PgOE1E1ĬNN journalist and anchor, Jake Tapper animated a distant family member born in 1773 Renowned English actor and activist, Sir Ian McKellen, famous for playing Magneto in X-Men and Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, animated famous Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. US TV talk-show host, Jimmy Kimmel, said his team was playing around with Deep Nostalgia™ so much they lost an afternoon of productivity! Using the tool to animate their friends and family. Celebrities Using Live PortraitĮven celebrities were getting in on the act. Here’s a quick summary of some of the reactions and uses people have been putting the software to. The MyHeritage mobile app even made it to the top of the App Store, making it the most downloaded free app both in the US and UK, even behind Tiktok Over 26 million faces have been animated in just a few days, at a rate of thousands per hour. From the launch at Rootstech in Salt Lake City, Utah, the technology has now reached around the world, with people on every continent on earth using the app to make emotional connections to long-departed family members. But we weren’t prepared for quite how far and fast it was going to go. When MyHeritage released their Deep Nostalgia tool just over a week ago, using D-ID’s Live Portrait technology, we knew it was going to be a success. Videos are from Felvir's Facebook account.D-ID’s Live Portrait is the tech behind the huge success of Deep Nostalgia™ of MyHeritage mobile app which became the most downloaded free app in the UK and US. Discover the technology for yourself here. Internet users all over the world are using the Deep Nostalgia technology, bringing motion to photographs of dead loved ones, presidents, and even esteemed music composers. I tried it on our lolo Jose, grandfather of the nation. "Now you can do the same online at MyHeritage for old pics, but I was scared to try it on my mother and grandmother. So it won't be creepy, the final flourish was opening the eyes!," Ambeth posted. "There used to be artists who specialized in painting the dead during a wake as a souvenir for relatives. Author and historian Ambeth Ocampo did the same thing and used Jose Rizal's photo for the Deep Nostalgia app. ![]() His post went viral that it was even shared by the Facebook page of the Department of Tourism, Culture and Arts of Manila. “Note that these aren’t my ancestors, but I thought it would be cool to try it with famous historical figures,” he added. “I tried it out on old family photos and the results are just amazingly surreal! It’s like we’re one step closer to bringing the dead back to life!” ![]() “I knew that it was only a matter of time until AI and neural network tech will find its way into more applications in family history, but I’m still so astounded by this #DeepNostalgia feature on #MyHeritage launched at the recent #Rootstech conference,” he posted. Genealogy company MyHeritage launches a new tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to put life-like movement to photographs, called Deep Nostalgia.įor his #DeepNostalgia entry, Filipino Facebook user Felvir Dieta Ordinario, skipped his family tree and used the photographs of Jose Rizal, Apolinario Mabini, Antonio Luna, and Emilio Aguinaldo. With today’s technology, that would be possible. But what do you think would it be like seeing them close their eyes, blink a little, have a little smirk, or raise their eyebrows? It may sound a little creepy, but it sure is going to be an experience. Have you ever wondered what it is like seeing our historical Filipino personalities in real life? Sure, we have photos and paintings of them to remind us of how they looked. ![]()
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