DeepFaceLive VS aitrack

https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive. This is the first result Google gives me. Rudimentary, but enough to possibly trick someone who isn't knowledgeable enough. Instead of a fully AI generated person, it is a digital face swap. Essentially, you are correct in that the technological leap towards making a fully interactive deep fake is likely far beyond current technological capabilities. Especially for a scammer. Digitally swapping a face sidesteps that technological limitation.

A more lifelike deformer would be running a 'deepfake' layer over your face motion into your 2D character face, but so far I haven't tried it yet. Here is some example of a well known open source 'faceswapper' : https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive

DeepFaceLive https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive You have to create a celeb model first or download a publicly available model

"Advanced AI" is an expression that makes politicians and decision makers to go on a rampage. Don't get your hopes up, the way the world reacted to ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and stuff like that already suggests all AIs will be pretty much government regulated eventually and people like Eugenia has no way to circumvent this. Add projects like https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive into the mix and you can see the perfect storm brewing up already...

Additionally you can use https://github.com/AIRLegend/aitrack to get good head tracking and you don't need to run it with the same WINE prefix, since it uses UDP to communicate. Just run it casually from your OS (via WINE for example). But OpenTrack still need to run in the same WINE prefix ofc.

Software to setup a camera with head tracking https://github.com/AIRLegend/aitrack

For rudimentary head tracking, you can use a webcam with AiTrack.

If you have a decently modern phone you can get the smoothtrack app on your phone for $10. You can use that as an input for opentrack. I've been using that for a while, and it seems to be working well. Apparently you can also use a regular webcam in opentrack using aitrack, but I haven't personally used it so I can't vouch for how well it works.

I would use ai track (https://github.com/AIRLegend/aitrack) instead of a track ir system since it only uses a decent webcam and in my experience is pretty reliable.

OpenTrack plus AITrack is 100% free. If you don't have a webcam, toss in DroidCam for Android/iOS and use your smartphone.

run opentrack https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack/releases to get the curves and mapping and aitrack https://github.com/AIRLegend/aitrack for head tracking. 200% better for me.

I use AITrack to use a webcam to read my face. This means that the only peripheral I need is a webcam, no other headsets or hats.