A 3D Hentai Camgirl Is Taking Over Chaturbate, and Human Models Are Worried (probably NSFW)
A 3D anime woman with a black strap across her nipples is giving a lecture on YouTube about whether hentai is art or porn. "I think there's a higher demand for the odd and the fantastical," she says. "With art, it's flexible, you're allowed to explore your sexuality. And with real titties? No offense, but it's bound to the cruel weight of science, gravity, and bones that only go one way."
ProjektMelody is a virtual avatar of a woman who claims to be the world's first hentai camgirl. When she's not on YouTube, she gives regular, live shows on the camming site Chaturbate, where she dances and fondles herself for tips. She's not real, but there's a real person in there somewhere, moving her arms and speaking into a microphone to any of her 14,300 followers currently in the live chat. She only started streaming three days ago.
On Chaturbate, her location is listed as "Virtual Little Tokyo," and under smoking and drinking preferences, "literally impossible." Her birthdate is listed as July 7, 2000, but more accurately, Melody came into the world in July 2019, when ProjektMelody joined Twitter.
In the last three days since her first stream, Melody has gone from 700 Twitter followers to more than 20,000. The "more rooms like this" tab on her Chaturbate page returns an error: "Sorry, we don't have any rooms similar to projektmelody yet." That's because other cam models are human. Her sudden rise in popularity has made some who aren't working behind a full-body avatar question what place an anime avatar has on the platform.
Motion capture technology is used to animate the virtual troublemaker.
There is a Projekt Melody channel on YouTube.
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The future is apparently here. And it's creepier than we ever imagined—even when we were playing around with tethering Teddy Ruxpin to the Internet. A Japanese company called Vinclu ("a company that makes crazy things and supports crazy people") is now taking pre-orders from Japan and the United States for a new interactive, artificial-intelligence driven home automation system. Called Gatebox, the new Internet-of-Things product takes Amazon's Alexa, Google Home, Spike Jonze's film Her , and the "holographic" anime characters of Vocaloid concerts to their unified natural conclusion.
Wait, what?
Gatebox, priced at ¥321,840 (about $2,700 US), is squarely targeted at young lonely salarymen and all brands of anime-obsessed otaku—promising the experience of "living with your favorite character." The size of a home coffee-maker, with a footprint no larger than a sheet of A4 printer paper, the device's main feature is a clear projection tube that displays a computer-animated avatar for the AI's "character." Vinclu apparently is planning multiple possible personalities for Gatebox—which, as part of the device's backstory, is a gateway to the dimension the character lives in.
A company like this could release the first strong AI product (kawaii slave?).
Beginner's definition of "waifu" for the uninitiated.
Update: Another article indicates that "[There's also] HDMI and PC inputs to allow the owner to make their own modifications and create their own characters."
Diehard fans turn virtual teen singer into Japanese mega-star
She wears extremely short skirts, sports blue pigtails to her knees and has the boundless energy of a playful puppy. During her 10-year career, she's released more than 100,000 songs in a variety of languages and opened shows for Lady Gaga. And yet Hatsune Miku, who boasts 2.5 million Facebook followers, doesn't actually exist — at least not in the typical way we think of a flesh-and-blood diva. Miku is a computer-simulated pop star created more than a decade ago by Hiroyuki Ito, CEO of Crypton Future Media in Sapporo, Japan.
A virtual music star, driven by fans and voice-synthesis software. Here's a sample video, if you're curious. I can't judge the voice, since I don't speak japanese, but the animation is remarkably good.
takyon: Wikipedia for Hatsune Miku and Vocaloid. Have some fun with Miku! meme (YTP version. Warning: Gets LOUD).
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The virtual vloggers taking over YouTube
A young Japanese woman sporting a giant pink bow and white opera gloves looks into the camera and gleefully greets her YouTube audience. She's about to try and solve a puzzle. Before diving into the game, she boasts with a smile: "Well, compared to all you humans, I can clear it much faster. No doubt about it!"
Yes, this YouTube personality isn't a real person. While she's voiced by a human, she's a digital, anime-style cartoon. Her name is Kizuna Ai, and she has more than two million subscribers to her channel. She's the most-watched "virtual YouTuber" on the site. Kizuna Ai is part of an emerging trend where 3D avatars – rather than humans – are becoming celebrities on YouTube, with dedicated fanbases and corporate deals. It's becoming so popular that one company is investing tens of millions in "virtual talent" and talent agencies are being established to manage these avatars.
It's a movement that has big implications for the future – it could change how brands market their products and how we interact with technology. It could even let us live forever.
Yes, that's right. It could let you "live" forever. The true immortality: being remembered only as an anime girl.
What does it mean to "promote child exploitation"? When it's figurines that have been sold for years but now violate Amazon's statutes about promoting child exploitation which resulted in listings being removed. Chuck Gaffney has run a successful Amazon store for years selling anime-related products, up until recently when Amazon started cracking down on anything that could be perceived as "promoting child exploitation".
While it can be difficult for online retailers to represent themselves as selling genuine merchandise — meaning reputation means a lot — this type of behavior from the market owner is very discouraging. In response, the seller blames a "neopuritan crusade" against anime figures.
The characters at the center of this disagreement are: Hatsune Miku and Kaitō Tenshi Twin Angel.
It's a wonder that anything anime-related survives importation to the US from Japan.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday February 12 2020, @04:28AM (11 children)
Real is definitely better than fake. While some may argue this point for large ones (not me, real is better even if small,) there is one thing for certain... Ones that can actually be felt are ALWAYS better than ones that are just virtual.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday February 12 2020, @04:38AM (2 children)
So this is actually virtual vs. virtual?
Haptic feedback required.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by TheReaperD on Wednesday February 12 2020, @06:08AM (1 child)
Trust me, Japan is getting it up as fast as they can. It's only a matter of time till they finish.
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 12 2020, @07:56AM
Eh, yea, I see whatcha sayin'.
Sometimes civilizations show the effects of aging too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday February 12 2020, @05:17AM (2 children)
Ummm...
1. nothing is better than (real) sex
2. masturbation is better than nothing
ergo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @05:28AM (1 child)
I pity your limited life experience then.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @07:51AM
I pity your limited sex life experience then.
(Score: 2) by TheReaperD on Wednesday February 12 2020, @06:31AM (1 child)
Trust me, there's a large audience of 2D obsessed cringlords out there that will eat this up.
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @07:11AM
It's just as 3D as "real" camgirls on the screen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @08:30AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFO-5yqu6bQ [youtube.com]
https://nitter.net/i/status/1219326059235160064 [nitter.net]
https://chaturbate.com/projektmelody/ [chaturbate.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @03:21PM (1 child)
So, therefore: Real Girl > Sex Doll > Camgirl/Hentai?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2020, @04:07AM
RealDoll > Hengirl > Sextai
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @09:48AM (5 children)
Economic competition, bitches.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @10:12AM
Hoes. Mad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @04:04PM
If they loose their gig, they can always learn to code ;)
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 12 2020, @09:33PM (2 children)
Yeah, I'm sure the bitches are really hurting after the loss of all those otaku mouthbreathers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @10:18PM
True, not like the otaku mouthbreathers were even attracted to real people to begin with.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2020, @01:34AM
They'll hurt after they hit the wall.
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Wednesday February 12 2020, @10:37AM (1 child)
20,000 is a lot, right?
I see with the free(?) press above that she's increased that to 47,800 followers. Truly a threat to human chatbots everywhere. With only a few more zeros tacked on, she'll be threatening the former [twitter.com] state of the art.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday February 12 2020, @05:42PM
rDT never put out in the way this Twitterbater did.
Expect the technology to eventually be used for mo-cap animated nude Trump livestreams. Don't forget the voice changer.
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday February 14 2020, @01:46AM
Her voice sounds a lot like one of the characters in RWBY. Coincidence? Or same voice actress?