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on today's show a 3d printed necklace series made from flowers and jellyfish also a really really freaking creepy CG animation and forget BR how about a crazy projected holo-pyramid video game console saying so confused tomorrow daily greetings citizens on the Internet welcome to tomorrow daily I'm Ashley scattered Jamie's always kale anonymous you're watching the best geek talk show in the known universe um you know it's our 200th episode we made it okay yeah I knew it was our 200 episode and but I realized it really really really really really late like right before I walked in the door so at the last minute I got you I got you something you got me gift yeah I got you something forget me I got you this the gift of Snickers it's it's a Snickers bar from the vending machine out in the lobby but there's a then I use tape to make a little bow oh it's adorable God 200th episode I thought long about the you know what I also thought really long and hard about this and I got you something too and it just it skittles from the vending machine ah I'll trade you let's talk about it after the show yeah I got skills so anyway 200th episode 200 no it's not that many episodes Sunday yeah anyway ok cool so enough enough with our stupid candy joke take the headlights all right i'll trade you it's killed i'll trade you you don't know anything about me I got it because it was symbolic of the rainbow of magic that you bring to the show every day do you think I'm gay no I mean I'm not but I do think that I see so many different facets of kill anonymous that it would it's like a rainbow of personalities you didn't say no not anyone i don't know it's our first story creepy cg let's let's take a look let's just get right into it USC researchers are hoping to fix the issue of uncanny valley and one of the problems is is that you know facial skin doesn't really move the way that our facial skin moves but they're trying to fix that with what they are calling dynamic micro geometry we're going to get a little technical here guys so here's a current you excited about this this is okay you're gonna freak out when you see the actual video so um one of the things that happens when we have cg faces is this so Logan let's take my take my camera so when the face stretches it your pores and stuff squish along with it okay and like when you wrinkle your nose and stuff like your skin squishes and stretches and you get these little tiny wrinkles and pores change shape so sometimes they might look round and sometimes they might have vertical ridges and things like that so they have decided that they are going to find a way to sort of show those really tiny micro imperfections and things like pores in the face in CG rendering so that's what they're doing they're doing the scan they are doing something a deep scan that gets really really really tight on the skin okay so they these are dynamic displacement maps so they they have texture map this so notice how it changes like you can see it goes vertical and then it squishes into a different shape right and it looks like skin that's a recorded skin patch sequence so they've made it like skin now using this scan they make this special texture map that we were just looking at they add it as a layer to a render it's like three layers in a render for CG and the map will help adjust CG skin by considering how the little tiny small details from that texture map change when the face is manipulated a whether through a motion or through other means getting punched things like that so they showed this as a full render they also show this as a real-time technique meaning that things like virtual assistants could utilize this technology with the right video cards so producer Logan do we have the video of the ball stretching and then the really scary face because I think that's like the best part the best way to sort of show exactly what this kind of technology is so on the right you have static micro geometry you can see it doesn't really look like the balls being torqued but when you look at the one on the left it looks like it's being torqued right so now same thing this is actual rendered this rendered skin they're moving it around and manipulating it looks real yeah looks really real okay are you ready for the face the face is the scariest because there's no eyes in it that's a CG rendered face which is pretty impressive and there you there are little tiny wrinkles pores and you can see where see that's where the tension is and that's where the texture map changes to help give a more realistic look so that's what they're doing at USC that's what the researchers are doing I know it's like really complicated as a lot of algorithms involved the way they're scanning stuff but yeah you see all those little tiny wrinkles they change as the face changes its shape so this is with the action the new layer dynamic micro geometry that's what the new layer so you can see all those little little little little tiny pores and little imperfections in the skin pretty impressive that's incredible pretty impressive also super creepy using a face without any eyes guys and I think they should call up Disney research and get those cgi's that we talked about a couple months ago have ship them over in a file just get it email them over guys I get it the eyes are their own hurdle right coming and making it that look of course scary I didn't want to distract but apparently it just sucks you right in any way exactly so yeah super creepy but also pretty amazing the things that they're doing over there and like I said they have they did it in pre-rendered stuff and they also did live like renderings so this is something that can be used both in pre-rendered things like movies cinematics things with that but also live stuff like virtual assistant technology so really cool really really cool very cool yeah tell me so check this out all right about a there's all this VR and AR stuff happening everywhere that's true but nobody's paying attention to holographic deck technology that's because what except for Sherlock so basically this is a Kickstarter that don't bring up Stu soon okay um so this is basically a Kickstarter for a holographic deck kind of like gaming experience system that isn't just like a one sided projection it's a projection you can look at from any single place you want to be around this thing is so cool-looking so it's basically a glass pyramid it happens for for projectors projecting light on in different directions on different walls they're in it's just a kickstart they want to make the amazing they didn't really like gone into like the games and stuff but basically through the video you can see the stuff that they're trying to do that looks so fun yeah there's there you saw that they had a fireplace looks like you can like watch a cartoon the 3d cartoon you can play games on it it's basically just like a fun entertainment system so it what have you want on one of these well first of all again I said it was a Kickstarter to stop being a jerk and listen so it's a Kickstarter right now but it's a if you want to get it it's about 450 for the home edition okay and then there's a pro edition now the pro edition is larger and has speakers on board and has a sensor to dim the display and I home additions for chumps so there you go uh so proud so I'm sorry it was a difference between 450 and 5 30 for the pro edition oh that's not bad at all I mean I was expecting this to be like a thousand dollars at least yeah it's actually not that bad but I mean it was see what they're gonna do with it they want to they want to have unity 5 an unreal work on this thing oh my god you create some really impressive visuals we know that like for instance batman arkham knight since that's on my mind yeah is created unreal so you could that sort of essentially that level of uh visuals I could even imagine people cool so cause everyone's thinking in the world of augmented reality adding things and then you're thinking of VR out you know in getting immersed but what have you had your own small contained world it'd be interesting to see what they could accomplish oh man that is amazing it's a holiday Hollis yeah i was about to get that Hollis I'm gonna look it up on Kickstarter and spent a couple a couple of monies drops in 1024 50 so it's about the same price as your xbox one but then this one doesn't play halo but it's a giant glass pyramid that shows you holograms 3d hologram show off you get this I want that just said I don't even know what I do that I love that picture I love you happy excited family pictures it's game night oh yeah you put of course you'd buy this you know for your kids to play with in their little house 10 in the 90s in the arcade and let's see if if anybody remembers this there was an arcade game I remember I know exactly what I was there a Cade game it cost like a dollar and back then it was a lot of expensive yeah and it was basically a quick time event type thing and you were like a cowboy no you you time-traveled but are you looking at up so you can find it I know exactly what it is and it was like was this big giant display and then it like projecting in a small area but uh do you think it did you find it yeah it's called time traveler is an FM BFMV game oh um and yeah I was your time traveler this is the machine right here it's piano hold on I got it it's like you know cuz oh my god you're so confounded oh my God look at this thing so basically that that would be projected in front of you as you can see it's it's still only two dimensions but they and they layer the dimensions so that it looks 3d okay can we also just get a sequel to it can we go to reboot going can we get a reboot for this game this thing was ridiculous I was personally looking to get burned up we got burned up by a pterodactyl my mama gave five dollars and I'd go in there and I'd spend it all in like two minutes oh my gosh to go and you died so fast if i recall correctly you died like it was so easy to die there's not it's not so there you go not good the future is now finally here but in 90 we're bringing it back you show them the size of the console it was humongous lodo the best yeah we're going to really slow it down I'll throw up a picture and post it will show you the size of it okay lastly we got to talk about this necklace I'll make it quick just because just because I can and actually it's pretty simple so there are there's this team of MIT grads who started this company called nervous system which is actually a really awesome website where you can buy 3d printed stuff like house stuff and jewelry and everything and they developed this series of algorithms based on how flowers bloom to grow in 3d modeling software their own jewelry like so they said oh we really love how flat these specific flowers bloom and we also really love jellyfish arms so we want to sort of make jewelry based on the movements of that so they created an algorithm and they created jewelry and so what they did was they let the software grow itself like so like they said okay just do it and it's called flora form which is what you're seeing right now and they were like I said inspired by jellyfish arms and flowers there are three different types of design they have one inspired by jellyfish arms one inspired by flowers and the one inspired by both so they integrated both into into a 3d print so yeah this is how like this is how they end up in a in an actual like modeling software they let it kind of grow itself which is kind of cool and then and then print them out there's 24 pieces you can buy they range anywhere from I think like $35 to 375 dollars some of them are made of like silver like solid silver you can get like shapes like pendants and big necklaces and stuff but it's a pretty cool line of jewelry and I actually was thinking I might buy one like I kind of want to maybe get like one of the lesser expensive pieces and see how how it is that's that's really cool but it's pretty rad and I just I really like the sort of use of you know 3d printing algorithm technology and also nature like throwing that all kind of in together and making these like beautiful pieces of jewelry that people can enjoy um which is just so cool so there that's that's how it works very cool that's ami yeah nervous system is the website if you want to go check out there it's very creepy jewelry's I'm gonna drop this I've almost dropped this like so many times a day and you in the lad 02 I know foreshadowing I'm with a beautiful pieces of your through on her like this one day it's just gonna fall down alright guys we're gonna take a quick break we will be right back with a very special segment kale got to go to a very awesome place and check out why we did snatchin at the beginning of the episode we really cool thing I got to go to a really cool place and now you're finding out about it late you're probably over my candy popcorn in the kitchen get out of there okay now you're back and on that do this I'll not know we're taking a break we'll be right back welcome back to the show everybody we've returned and as we mentioned with a very special segment kale got to do something honestly pretty cool I do i do you want intro it or do you want me to no I got it all right uh so our friends at CBS CBS is our parent company our friends at CBS have a show coming out this week I think tomorrow called zoo and there was actually a lot of the jim henson Creature Shop was involved in making some of the some of the animatronic remains for the animals in that show and so I got invited to go to the Henson Creature Shop here new work out like three four times a week oh hey guys it's kale from tomorrow daily and today we are at the Henson Creature Shop look we've all secretly wanted to come here and today we're going to check out a really cool puppet it was inspired by the show zoo which is coming out soon on CBS but we're also going to look at well pretty much everything I'm super excited and I really want to hang out with this baby right here it's just uh baby so this is John Criswell thank you for showing us a little bit around today I mean what's your official title here I'm the animatronics supervisor so I take care of all of the workings and goings underneath that we have assume animatronics form sooo right the upcoming TV show right okay so let's let's tackle this thing I mean it's not as easy as going down to your local costume shop and popping on a gorilla costume anymore people have to be convinced performer that we're using they study you know guerilla movement obviously we have I think it's a really impressive thing here which is the the animatronic head you said that this wasn't heavy ya know this is under 4 pounds it's got about 12 motors in it so this is wireless you're not you're not actually hooked up per se right to it no it is it is all wireless all right let's see let's see mad so this would be his that's probably is that's that's my dream man okay what about is there a happy you got a happy gorilla oh yay imma lottery he's kind of space abilities he's not happy about that lottery win no that's right you can get the big one oh you found a banana mmm hey baby how are you doing now this is another one of those cheats because we go from these arms which are longer than human arms to these short arms with the performer inside am i able to try one of these on lastly you alright so this is what it's like to have hair yah hurts yeah I have very uncaring woman arms so maybe we should have spent the whole suit on you Luke atender you know actually Harry you can have my cell phone real quick I want to see what it look like if I was texting with gorilla hands twitter update checking out the Hanson studio no big deal right now you want to get it off but no I'm gonna hang out with like something out um let me come around cuz I'll grab the other ones the under suit and you get get bottoms ok that's the butt alright yet and just like on the head in the hands you have a whole suit of fur and if you look in there you can see how we've kind of ventilated it it's a favorite one though yeah you're gonna take that home just try me you know I pulled you over sir you have a gorilla arm alright John well thank you so much for showing us around you're welcome alright have fun with that hand I will all right dominant I'm actually gonna wander around is that cool like yeah ok cool he's dude yeah help yourself good please anyway ok that looked amazing something I've always wanted to do like I said at the beginning of the piece the people that are really nice very interesting I went in-depth talking to them about like some of their past history they worked on the show dinosaurs you remember that was on ABC there's a lot of history throughout their you're just gonna have to like pause and see if you can see stuff in the background that's that's kind of the way I made the piece when I was like producer Logan we're gonna have to make sure at there's stuff in the background all the time so so there you go so if you want to catch do it's going to be on tomorrow so that's tuesday at nine Eastern if you're CBL on CBS so there you go is really cool so thanks so thanks to yeah thanks to CBS and also to the Henson creature shop for letting us visit cuz that was pretty rad just fun monkeying around with them yet monkeying around I see what you did there okay I didn't because a gorilla is not a monkey alright fair enough let's talk about user feedback it seems so upset okay so fair warning guys like we had to kind of do some schedule shifting so we didn't have time to get your user feedback on last week's show which will read tomorrow but I wanted to talk about two emails that we got about remember the algae furniture from last week oh yeah weird algae furniture that you eat and you said you'd be totally into it will get guess who agrees with you pin our good buddy no pin agrees with you the house says hello ashlyn kill yes refresh raw algae a slimy putra green and just not appetizing however raw beet is slimy pinkish pus yellow and just not appetizing yet most of us find prepared meat to be very palatable yeah put that deep fry that sludge and you'll be good to go yeah well he mentions he also mentions that once you process algae into bleached white powder you can actually put it into pretty much anything veggie burgers milk algae dairy free ice cream I'm when you're taking away like all of the new trick you you're making it unhealthy again you're on your boobs what he pees on anything and it's gonna taste great that's what I would eat it if I'd had some cheese melted cheese algae please they'll need a B yeah so he said that it would be a great idea it's missing only one thing an appliance for processing that that green goop into a process powder that you could then make other things with which i think is a good idea i remember that creepy crawlers thing yes so what if we just did that you put it in the shape of different things so like you're like easy bake oven but like with kids and stuff like i like that so much edge eat algae dads well gummy worms your dad and her mom watching like a dude algae eat it if it's in the shape of a gummy bear i would eat it and then also dave abston wrote in to us and send in some art he sent in a robot a while ago but he said hi kids been trying to do more drawing in my spare time haha here's a couple of robot scale might like if anyone wants to start a Kickstarter to build these just cut me in where's the picture yeah they are yeah baby yeah robot bartender oh my God look at the robot cat I love Rob okay just sleeps Robo meow hey sleeps and now he's a fantastic great job Dave yeah super fun so um Dave abston if you want to go check out his way to that robot has alcohol my god has lots of wine per second that's my kind of robot yeah that's a robot I want to be friends with get a glass of wine hanging out chitchat watching veep you know how it is wait i thought the robot watch beep with you yeah robots gonna watch beep with me i'll be great wasn't that your yes my into it still into it still watching still catching out again another through line for Ashley I know it's terrible um okay we have one last piece user feedback and it's always our phone target for the day Matt road in took this picture with his iphone 5s so nice here's my photo I took with my trusty iphone 5s this is captured in my backyard a couple of weeks ago anyways I hope you like it uh is your backyard a magical fairy garden mat because that's what it looks like to me all those kinds of flowers only show up in like secret fairy gardens right what kind of phone was it iphone 5s it's great picture so sharp always really good in broad daylight though um and it looks like it's a little shaded there so that's like perfect photo taking conditions um yeah really good picture Matt thanks oh thanks for making us all look bad appreciate that if you guys want to send in your photogra feet tomorrow Tina's calm show ideas 2 story ideas and if you want to find us online work tomorrow d li but mainly on twitter and if you got your own twitter and that's what she said it wasn't it that's what she said joke but you let into it ok fair enough ah lowing up at kalyan onimous is my accountant ash at Ashley's gala if you want to follow her crazy antics well I'm gonna make you an official trade here take the snickers yes I bought myself my own gift and I bought myself my own skittles and I'll not know we will be back tomorrow with a brand-new docket of weird wonderful science facts in science fiction but until that big Inhumans will see you guys next time fine sir you