NMC Campus Observer

Avatar Face Celebrity Match

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : May 23, 2006 11:29pm

This may not be very news worthy, but if you have spent some time (or money) grooming your avatar, you might want to run a snapshot through the My Heritage.com site. This site uses face recognition software to locate close “matches” from its database.
Their trial version, allows you to load your image and see what “celebrities” can match by its recognition algorithms. Following a lead from New World Notes, several Second Life citizens are running their avatars through the system to see who matches.

In the spirit of “gonzo journalism” this reporter was compelled to experiment!

Step one was selecting a good face shot- here is my handsome-ness:

Next, my face was scanned (it was painless):

And the results? Interesting! Any guesses?

Well the first one is… Jorge Luis Borges. Who me? an Argentine philosopher/writer/poet? Hmmm, perhaps we try another match and we get:

Oh yes, the chiseled chin, green eyes, of course I am a dead ringer for Brad Pitt. Not a doubt!

But let’s spin the wheel one time and we get:

yes! Hunter S. Thompson, quite a role model, and fitting for me, your journalistic voyeur here on the NMC Second Life Campus.

So which celebrity does yor avatar match to? Find out at http://www.myheritage.com/

Story filed under: Second Life News

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