{"id":8573,"date":"2019-04-23T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2019-04-20T14:58:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T21:58:41","slug":"8573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/23\/8573\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Vid2Game&#8221;: Turning videos of people into playable characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Facebook have devised a way to <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1904.08379.pdf\">extract playable characters from regular videos<\/a>, creating animated sprites you can control with a joystick or keyboard. Check it out in action:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sNp6HskavBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sNp6HskavBE\">YouTube<\/a>] [Via Luca Prasso]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Facebook have devised a way to extract playable characters from regular videos, creating animated sprites you can control with a joystick or keyboard. Check it out in action: [YouTube] [Via Luca Prasso]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8581,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}