Simulon turns acted iPhone footage into regenerated VFX scenes

Co-founder Divesh Naidoo says the new feature uses a creator's actions, speech and surroundings to generate a fresh performance, with timing and interaction changes possible.

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The feature makes a creator's performance part of VFX generation, giving Simulon a way to generate an asset's response from a staged scene.

A person holds up a phone and reaches toward a leaf-covered deer in a misty forest, with “RW” on a tree.

Simulon has introduced Reality-Aware Rendering, an iPhone feature that turns a creator's acted scene into a newly generated visual-effects performance. Co-founder Divesh Naidoo (@diveshnaidoo) described the workflow in an X post on October 28th: place a neural asset using the phone, record a scene, then have Simulon render the take using the performer's actions, speech and surroundings.…

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