Catfight: Adrienne Curry vs. Lara Croft

26 Comments by Vladimir Cole Dec 29th 2006 1:32PM
Filed under: Culture, PC, Action, Adventure, Fighting, Video, Peripherals

Graphics card maker NVIDIA and pants tent maker Adrienne Curry (of America's Next Top Model fame) have teamed to create "the world's first real-time, virtual celebrity," according to an NVIDIA press release. Though the "world's first" claim is dubious (companies have been working on this sort of thing since before the days of Max Headroom), we like that Ms. Curry took a dig at Lara Croft via the release:

"The Digital Adrianne is so realistic, it's really trippy. Lara Croft, eat my shorts!"

Actually, that's a great idea, Adrienne. Make it happen, NVIDIA. Literally -- by this time next year, virtual Lara needs to wrestle off and eat virtual Adrienne's shorts. As a tech demonstration to prove Adrienne's polygonal superiority and stuff.

Click "continue" for some video of the virtual Curry.

Tags: adrienne curry, amntm, lara croft, LaraCroft, tomb raider, virtual avatar

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Unimental: Dec 29th 2006; 1:38PM

My Lara Croft Mii could woop her ass any day.

anghus: Dec 29th 2006; 1:41PM

all this time i've been masturbating to poorly rendered textures.

Now, those days are behind me.....

Larb: Dec 29th 2006; 1:43PM

This is just sad.

Spaz: Dec 29th 2006; 1:54PM

If it was at all possible, I'd do a Fark-like image link to the "look at me, i'm an attention whore" of that girl doing a hand stand on the beach.

wrecked: Dec 29th 2006; 2:05PM

I don't know if she looks more like a dude in drag in person or digitally rendered, couldn't they have found a model that looks more like a woman. Glad they were able to seperate the unibrow but they could have done some more plucking

Ron: Dec 29th 2006; 2:06PM

LOL @2!!

Maylon: Dec 29th 2006; 2:06PM

Not impressed at all, in fact I am a little disappointed

samfish: Dec 29th 2006; 2:15PM

I came.

Twice.

aC: Dec 29th 2006; 2:22PM

You want to see a disappointment, just pull up her playboy spread.

JimCognito: Dec 29th 2006; 2:29PM

That's some prime Joliet stoner chick goodness right there.

Ben Friesen: Dec 29th 2006; 2:50PM

But the question is, when will the porn industry tap this new power?

Aaron: Dec 29th 2006; 2:54PM

Yes!! Finally, when people tell me I need to get a girlfriend, I can download one from the INTERWEBS!!

WOO-HOO!!

NintendoFanbot: Dec 29th 2006; 2:55PM

Actually the first one would be Aki Ross.

Screw her though, $10 million to animate and render hair? Too high maintenance.

@12

I dunno, but there are some that already use Poser3D to...

...not that I'm talking from experience, mind you. :P

Ron: Dec 29th 2006; 3:06PM

She looks kind of creepy... am I right?

HelloThere: Dec 29th 2006; 3:12PM

C'mon, somebody mention something about the Uncanny Valley so I can turn around and go:

"I'd sure like to see her Uncanny Valley. Giggity giggity!"

Tommy Mang: Dec 29th 2006; 3:24PM

"Shark still looks fake..."

VoidnessMD: Dec 29th 2006; 3:28PM

Anyone ever seen the movie Simone?

"A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person."

~Void

Ron: Dec 29th 2006; 3:41PM

Yeah! Rachel Roberts is hot!

the real Steve: Dec 29th 2006; 4:29PM

leave it to the news to mess up such a simple fact. They said that nvidia made the gpus for both the ps3 and the xbox360. ATI made the 360's gpu. How do we know they aren't lying about everything else?

errrm: Dec 29th 2006; 4:51PM

19 If u listen carefully they said XBOX and PS3 not Xbox 360. nVidid made the original xbox gpu.

none: Dec 29th 2006; 9:06PM

"Screw her though, $10 million to animate and render hair? Too high maintenance."

all of this is a complete waste of money and reflects poorly on the company...they should be selling good products, not female object advertisements. it doesn't change the fact that the 8800 is $600 and out of the price reach of most people.

Mr.bob: Dec 29th 2006; 9:30PM

You scare me number 2.... get a girls friend for gods sack.... gosh....

Ray Hargreaves: Dec 29th 2006; 10:26PM

Wow, I can really see all the detail thanks to YouTube's high-quality video.

Negativecool: Dec 30th 2006; 2:10AM

Uncanny valley

unholy: Dec 30th 2006; 11:16AM

You scare me, number 22. Get a spell-checker, for Christ's sake...

The ZeroCorpse: Dec 31st 2006; 1:55PM

3D models of humans won't impress the world until they figure out how to make believable, realistic-looking pornography starring various celebrities at their peak. Admit it: What you all *really* want is a 3-way between Scarlett Johanssen, Marilyn Monroe, and James Dean.

The best part would be that it could be anybody, and no laws are broken because it's "parody" and protected under our Constitution.

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