Congratulations, team, and thank you for a magnificent gift to the world. I think this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on HN. Utterly amazing. I’m now feeling very bad that I have never cared about video cards because I just do back end/front end dev work on machines chosen solely for their lightness and portability.

If you just want to try it out, you could run it on a GPU cloud instance for 2-3$/h. They're also billed by the second, so you can turn it on only when you have meetings.

Previous discussion here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22906617

It does not conflict with the goal.

The video of him fooling someone into thinking Elon Musk had joined their Zoom call was quite funny. Unfortunately the voice was all wrong (sounded Russian) but the person was still fooled and surprised.

This "audio deepfake" analog suggests totally realistic imitation:

https://justusthies.github.io/posts/neural-voice-puppetry/

https://youtu.be/VQgYPv8tb6A

Most people have probably not heard much of Elon Musk's voice.

Maybe the voice will be resolved in a future PR ;)

And now I'm imagining pluggable, modular "avatar fonts". Who would you like to be today?

ahaha that's a nice demo! One of the devs was on that call so I guess it was just acting :)

I love Yann Lecun's eyeglass rim arching in one of the demos from the first-order-model code repo[1].

1: https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model

Now if only I could actually find a webcam somewhere to use with my desktop that has a 2080 Ti.

There are apps that turn your phone into a generic webcam. Probably works much better since the camera quality on your phone is better.

Something like the NDI-compatible apps from NewTek: https://www.newtek.com/ndi/applications/

The one I used was worse. Latency and bandwidth issues.

It'd be nice if it worked, though.