Synthetic Reality is synthetic media—algorithmically-generated text, audio, images, and video.

In the last year alone there have been significant academic advancements in generative adversarial networks, motion capture, and pose estimation. The quality of synthetic media is improving rapidly and soon will be indistinguishable from that of its human-created counterparts. Image manipulation and CGI aren’t new, but the tools are increasingly sophisticated, while also more available, cost efficient and require less human involvement. [1]

Contexts

• 1] [Is this the real life?, betaworks.com