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→ The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
404media.co/the-age-of-realtim

“[R]ealtime deepfakes allow a scammer to talk directly to their mark and improvise on #video calls or #livestreams. They can appear just as #human as the person they are impersonating […]”

“[R]ecently the quality has improved massively, with fraudsters demonstrating they’re able to hold entire #realtime video calls for extended periods of time while maintaining their deepfaked #persona […]”

404 Media · The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is HereFraudsters are able to change their race, facial hair, voice, and more during live video calls with very little effort. Scammers are already fooling the elderly and verification systems.

For those interested in 3D rendering techniques and frameworks, I'm very proud to inherit the reigns of Satin from the incredible Reza Ali.

I found out about Satin too late, as Reza had sunset the public repo after i had learned about it. Sadly it didnt get much traction for reasons I simply don't understand. Its incredibly well put together.

But due to some new opportunities, Reza kindly shared his internal updates - Satin Pro - and I want to help give it the community it deserves.

I'm trying to document Satin, and an ecosystem of examples, sample apps, and community at the Fabric project:

fabric-project.github.io

If you've seen my in progress node based VJ app 'v' - its built with Satin under the hood.

The first new addition to Satin is an attempt at a live coding environment, Velvet, allowing you to experiment with Satin rendering interactively.

#3d#rendering#gpu

Ok, heres a weird little project:

Dynamically compiled, runtime loaded Swift for live coding prototype.

This leverages a every so slighly modified Satin (a metal rendering engine) as a set of dylib libraries for the app, which also includes the modulemap and swiftmodule linker requirements.

We call swiftc on demand in a background process, compile, link, and hot load a renderer dylib, make an instance, and let Satin handle the rest.

I.. think this could be kind of awesome?

Graz University of Technology: Diminished Reality: TU Graz Team Makes Objects Disappear in Real Time. “Researchers at the Institute of Visual Computing have made it possible to remove objects from live recordings of three-dimensional environments without time delay while the camera remains in motion.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/12/diminished-reality-tu-graz-team-makes-objects-disappear-in-real-time-graz-university-of-technology/