but with tools like this making digital humans accessible to everyone and anyone, we ll certainly be seeing more of them in future. or maybe we won t as they ll all just look like the rest of us. great stuff! now, one of the big differences between playing a game and watching a movie is that you, the player, can become the star of it. in fact, many games allow you to customise your avatar so you can just become a virtual version of yourself. but that hasn t always been the case. kesewaa brown has been taking a look at how far black representation truly has come in games in the last few years, and what one mother and daughter are doing to tackle the issue. this is yvonne, a graphic designer based in london. and this is her daughter alyssa. she is playing the game that they designed together, frobelles. but they didn t create this app for the fun of it they wanted to solve a long lived problem in gaming. when alyssa came to me
hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that chinese smartphone companies 0neplus and 0ppo merged. amazon opened its fifth convenience store of just walk 0ut shopping in london s chalk farm neighbourhood. and twitter is testing out an unmention button, asking users for feedback on the feature. it would allow a user to edit themselves out of unwanted conversations. it was also the week that an autonomous artificially intelligent ship set sail across the atlantic. the mayflower has no crew on board and is retracing the 400 year old pilgrim route from plymouth in the uk to massachusetts in the us. the ship will carry out experiments on the way, collecting data on sea life and looking for plastic waste. the winner of the davidson prize, a new contest for smart designs to adapt homes in the era of at home working, was given to homeforest. the app connects with smart devices to transform the home into a forest bathing experience, replicating the feeling
real, don t they? but, of course, these are completely fabricated digital renders, made using a new creator tool from epic games. my name is kai. i m a metahuman, just like all the others. and it s my first day on thejob. yes, the technology used to create these characters, these digital renderings of humans, hasjust become a lot easier, faster and accessible to more of us. ally humphreys has been finding out more. today s filming location is pretty epic. i have come to the london innovation lab, home to some of the team at unreal engine. they are owned by epic games, the makers of the hugely popular fortnite. what is unreal engine? well, its software that allows actors to be fully immersed in virtual worlds. yep, not only is it used for building games, but has since evolved for use in virtual production, where the digital and physical worlds meet.
but none of this. the covid 19 pandemic means the annual e3 games convention has done away with its usual physical event in favour of an online affair. iam in in favour of an online affair. i am in london, in favour of an online affair. iam in london, not in favour of an online affair. i am in london, not la but that is a e3 event of sorts. first out of the block of this online only evening were the covid 19 pandemic means the annual e3 games convention games convention has done away with its usual physical event in favour of an online affair. i m in london, not la, and there is an e3 event, of sorts, on. first out of the blocks this online only e3 were ubisoft. they d drafted in an actor who s broken bad and mopped up a mandalorian to star as the villain in their new game, far cry 6. these fish? giancarlo esposito is starring as anton castillo, the big bad running a fictional caribbean dictatorship in open world
of walking in nature. volvo announced it s looking at ways to develop fossil fuel free steel for its car with swedish steel maker ssab. it aims to use the steel in its cars by 2026. volvo plans to make its cars fully electric by 2030. and finally this week, we saw the largest number of children to ever sing on a zoom call. 97,967 children in the young voices choirjoined in, singing lovely day with billy ocean at the 02 in london, via the online service. this is the matepad pro and it s the first chance i ve had to go hands on with the new harmony0s, huawei s replacement for android that it says is a next generation operating system. after donald trump put huawei on that us trade blacklist and blocked it from using google services, huawei said it would move to its own harmony0s which, it told reporters,