We now find ourselves in one of those internal arms races, with one group of nerds working to realistically smooth real people’s skin in realtime while others work to make fake people’s skin realistically imperfect. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
‘Siren’, a high-fidelity, real-time virtual “human,” is the brainchild of Epic Games, 3Lateral, Cubic Motion, Tencent, and Vicon, and was designed as a more effective, timesaving alternative for creating hyperrealistic video game characters… Look up close, and you’ll find that ‘Siren’ even has beauty “imperfections” like pimples and visible pores.
There’s a brief side-by-side clip of the real actress driving the fake one in the behind the scenes clip. In isolation Siren might look plausible, but she still looks fake next to the human actress.